Example sentences of "be made [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 All might preserve some religious truth and meaning , but none could be allowed to make any absolute claims , though each would be acceptable to the extent — but only to the extent — that it conformed or could be made to conform to the standard of natural religion , conceived of as a set of beliefs or principles which could stand very well on their own feet .
2 Someone would be made to die for the crime ; but for all his reservations , Merymose did not strike him as the kind of man who would fall on just anyone in order to present a solution .
3 As Senator Cohen put it , a sort of metaphysical exercise went on ‘ to define how many foreign leaders can be made to dance on the head of the President 's contra programme without calling it a solicitation ,
4 This initially meant that the bed-wetter would be made to sleep in the guard-room , where during the night he would be wakened hourly for toilet purposes .
5 No current can be made to flow from the STM 's needle on to their surfaces .
6 Public health physicians propose the technology of health needs assessment as the mechanism by which the purchasing process will be made to respond to the distribution of the population 's needs .
7 The vessel was built like a fish and its mouth could be made to protrude from the water .
8 Arrangement can be made to stay at the Hotel at a greatly reduced price .
9 Having seen how it is possible to tell a story within a particular sequence , let's take a step back to consider how this might be made to relate to the story of a whole day on the sands .
10 To personalise it , the little figures in the bus could be made to look like the children at the party .
11 In hospital , the parents can be enabled to spend as much time as they wish with their sick child , and efforts can be made to keep to the child 's familiar routines ( Rutter , 1979b ) .
12 The optimum ramp gradient and stepping rate limit depend on the number of steps to be executed ( see following example ) and , in principle , the function generator characteristics could be made to depend on the target position information .
13 In this way all actions can be made to fit within the framework .
14 We must find a simple picture-drawing rule that the computer can easily obey , and which can then be made to vary under the influence of " genes ' .
15 Under section 15(2) ( a ) it is no defence that the bulk can easily be made to correspond with the sample .
16 In the normal case three months should suffice and the period should be made to run from the service of a review notice .
17 it is extremely doubtful that the overall system … can ever be made to work without the kind of total ideological commitment and radical transformation which underlie its operation in socialist Yugoslavia .
18 Somehow , the deities had to be made to appear before the worshippers , and this appearance might take many different forms .
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