Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] made [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was made worse by a slight over-count of whites — people with two homes , for instance , tended to be double-counted . |
| 2 | This was made easier by the fact that all the Imperial residences , with the exception of the small Villa Eugénie at Biarritz , were within easy reach of Paris and all of them were on a direct railway line to the capital . |
| 3 | The emphasis was now to be increasingly on service , given to and paid for by the state , which assumed the right to appoint its commanders ( this was made easier by the fact that all accepted the state 's money for service in war ) and to demand that it got the best available in return for its money . |
| 4 | The excesses of overpayment in 1987–89 were made worse by a simple point : companies , whether buying themselves out or releveraging themselves in competition with outside bidders , paid their investment-bank advisers fees linked to whether the transaction was completed or not . |
| 5 | These were made worse by the tales and rumours which had been spread by evacuees about the devastation in north German cities , especially following the destruction of Hamburg . |
| 6 | Attempts to refloat the monarchy after the 1936 abdication of Edward VIII were made easier by the fact that the royal family included a king with a stammer and two princesses . |
| 7 | Just as the recession of 1980–81 was made worse by holding rates up in pursuit of a money-supply target , so today 's recession could be intensified by the pursuit of an exchange-rate target . |