Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] made [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such hard decisions must be made easier by the better outlook elsewhere in the group . |
| 2 | But he also believed that Christian apologetics needed to be explicated in order that their meaning could be made clearer to us . |
| 3 | And he said that he hoped manufacturers would look again at the instructions to see whether they could be made clearer . |
| 4 | Older bridges are at great risk ; they could be made safer by fitting elastic isolators where thermal expansion bearings now sit between girders and columns . |
| 5 | Those on the input will be similar to what the standard Buck topology requires ; those on the output(s) could be made smaller , though the reduction is limited by the need to keep enough capacitance to absorb fast load transients . |
| 6 | The plaintiff 's initial loss may be made greater by his financial inability to take steps to minimise his loss . |
| 7 | This argument may be made clearer by formulating it algebraically , extending the theory in Section 15.4 . |
| 8 | His economic plan was made to be tougher on the deficit in the House of Representatives , and may be made tougher still in the Senate . |
| 9 | Application for payment out may be made on the return day , or it may be made earlier by application on notice . |
| 10 | They believe the notorious ‘ Marton Crawl ’ would be made worse by the extra traffic the superstore would bring . |
| 11 | IT IS doubtful that the world will be made safer by a little-noted US government ban against Libyan students studying aviation and nuclear-engineering at American universities . |
| 12 | Fundamental nomic connection , as will be made clearer , is just that-fundamental . |
| 13 | The meaning of these terms will be made clearer in Chap . |
| 14 | A narrow hall can be made wider by covering the whole length of one wall with mirrors , from skirting board to ceiling cornice . |
| 15 | My distinction between the effects of second-person and third-person pronouns can be made clearer , perhaps , with some diagrams . |
| 16 | Perhaps this can be made clearer by taking the specific example of somebody who has an anxiety attack whilst shopping in a supermarket . |
| 17 | These can be made tighter by running the material over a hard edge to squeeze the coils . |
| 18 | Difficult ideas can be made easier by the use of animation . |
| 19 | In this sense , the counsellor has to be a mind-reader , but the problem of ‘ reading ’ the true feelings of the individual can be made easier by two factors . |
| 20 | Once connected , the art of serial communications can be made easier by selecting decent software . |
| 21 | ( The angle of the incline board can be made steeper as strength and fitness increases . ) |
| 22 | Power stations can be made cleaner and more efficient , so that they use less fossil fuel , particularly high carbon coal ; energy can be used more economically by the consumer ; and there is nuclear energy ( the subject of the following chapter ) , which whatever else it is capable of doing , does not produce carbon dioxide . |