Example sentences of "been made [adj] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 That has been made possible by an increase in the number of training places for young people from a grand total of 6,000 in 1979 to more than 260,000 today .
2 According to an engineer 's report , the welds have been made brittle as a result of neutron bombardment .
3 By the summer of 1967 , when he left the Department of Education and Science for the Board of Trade , £16m. had been made available for a building programme over the next two years , with a further £18m. to follow in 1971/2 .
4 ‘ For the purposes of this Article an article or substance is not to be regarded as properly used where it is used without regard to any relevant information or advice relating to its use which has been made available by a person by whom it was designed , manufactured , imported or supplied . ’
5 The planned closure of 31 of the remaining 50 coal mines in Britain , which has now been made subject to a review after widespread protests , will have serious environmental implications , the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) and others have warned .
6 The gift will not have been made subject to a reservation .
7 Jackson had been made redundant as a result of a drastic decline in orders and Turner 's company had gone into liquidation .
8 However , even this process has been made uncompetitive by a method developed by Monsanto in the US .
9 In Cranleigh Precision Engineering Ltd v Bryant Roskill J held that the defendant who had , whilst a director of the plaintiff company , been made aware of a patent held by a third party which affected the plaintiff 's products , could not justify his failure to disclose the existence of the patent to the plaintiffs and his subsequent acquisition of the patent for himself on the ground that it was public knowledge , for what he had misused was his confidential knowledge of the relationship of the information in the patent to the plaintiff 's products .
10 A few days later the national press carried the headlines that the UM plants in the Midlands had now been made idle as a consequence of the Merseyside strike .
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