Example sentences of "had [be] make [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the first time that the award had been made to a Communist head of state . |
| 2 | When one comes to look at the judgments in the American Economic Laundry case , it appears clear that the approach which the court was adopting in that case was to regard the tenant against whom a possession order had been made as a statutory tenant who did not have all the rights to protection conferred by the Rent Restriction Acts . |
| 3 | The USSR , however , mindful of the fact that Cuba had been made into a prominent campaign issue by both contenders for the US presidency , paid no heed to the wave of Cuban nationalisations of US property during August-October 1960 . |
| 4 | The former kitchen had been made into a small dining room almost entirely filled with an early Victorian table and set of six chairs which were undeniably the real thing . |
| 5 | It had been made by a famous couturier . |
| 6 | Her tutored eye saw that it had been made by a skilled seamstress , the tight , low-cut bodice erupting in a flurry of lace at the breast , the equally tight sleeves stiff with fake pearls and silver thread which formed the same flower design that was on the over-skirt . |
| 7 | Her dress had been made by a local dressmaker who had made it with a deep frill of black satin round the neck . |
| 8 | It reflected the growing problem of how to deal with surplus manpower once peace had been made in a major theatre of war . |
| 9 | He enjoyed telling it because his first attempt , to Franco , had been made in a desperate sort of pidgin-Italian . |
| 10 | The answer is probably that workers come a lot cheaper in China , but the money they have saved that way could surely have been doubled in extra sales — not to mention saving on shipping costs — if they had been made in a British factory . |