Example sentences of "[was/were] make [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Millions of soldiers were made prisoners of war , and many other Germans were interned under the Allied policy of ‘ denazification ’ whilst their activities under the Third Reich were investigated . |
| 2 | has been looking after her younger brothers and sisters since they were made wards of court when their parents were sent back to India . |
| 3 | has been looking after her younger brothers and sisters since they were made wards of court when their parents were sent back to India . |
| 4 | has been looking after her younger brothers and sisters since they were made wards of court when their parents were sent back to India . |
| 5 | English language broadcasts remained but were made part of the country 's external radio services . |
| 6 | A fifth , mid-century , scribe wrote the calendar , the verses and the Chronicle entries down to 490 , and a sixth the annals probably to the end of 1048 ; those to 1044 seem to have been written at one time , while changes in the appearance of the script suggest that subsequent entries were made year by year . |
| 7 | In September he was appointed royal hydrographer and he and his wife and children were made denizens of England under royal warrant . |
| 8 | Media freedom would be enhanced by legislation of the reforms proposed by the Faulks Committee , and even the statutory right of reply advocated by many media critics would be liberating if the exercise of that right were made contingent upon abandoning claims for libel damages . |
| 9 | Having passed the equivalent of the first MD examination , the universities could hardly turn her away , though places were made conditional on her waiting for her eighteenth birthday before going up . |
| 10 | An order requiring the contravener to repay the purchase price of the shares would not be capable of restoring the parties to their respective former positions unless the obligation to repay were made conditional on the tender of the share certificates . |
| 11 | Thus the church made its past its own : the martyrs were made present in time ; but they also had to become present in space . |
| 12 | Both he and Robert of Courson , another Englishman , were made cardinals by Innocent . |
| 13 | Two reports — one by the European Community 's committee of central-bank governors and the other by its monetary committee ( composed of finance-ministry and central-bank officials ) — were made public on May 23rd . |
| 14 | The next day the contents were made public of an unusually critical letter to Shamir from the leading pro-Israel lobby in the USA ( the American Israel Public Affairs Committee — AIPAC ) . |
| 15 | In 1989 , at least 300 million international journeys were made outbound from the major developed countries alone . |
| 16 | Sihanouk was also reported as saying that if he were made chair of the Cambodia Supreme National Council ( SNC ) he would allow Hun Sen , the SOC Prime Minister , to become vice-chair . |
| 17 | They were made parties to these proceedings but , since the debt owing to the building society now exceeds the value of the property and since they can be in no better position than the building society , they have taken no part in the proceedings . |
| 18 | Yeltsin was given the authority to appoint people to local government , and to suspend the actions of the presidents of autonomous republics within the Russian Federation , who were made heads of executive power within those republics . |
| 19 | Profitt , Michael Cook , 18 , Adrian Sinclair , 19 , and Lee Scrivens , 19 , all from Birmingham , admitted theft charges ; another six City supporters were also remanded in custody or on bail , and 23 were fined a total of £8,600 for admitting charges arising from a weekend in the Lancashire resort which a Football Association inquiry may punish by banning City supporters from remaining away games ; all their away matches were made all-ticket for an indefinite period after trouble last season at Crystal Palace . |
| 20 | ‘ We were frantically busy , ’ said Lois Brown , manager of Waterstones in Royal Avenue , Belfast , ‘ and what we noticed was the rise in the number of people that were making purchases with credit cards . |
| 21 | ‘ We were making loads of money and people were throwing champagne at us , ’ she said in an interview with the People newspaper . |
| 22 | Then she smiled though her eyes remained cold as winter and said , ‘ Are you enjoying your time in the Army ? ’ — as if she were making conversation in a drawing-room , Carrie thought , instead of standing in a hay field in summer in a long , silk ball gown . |
| 23 | He felt that they were making fun of him , though he could not understand why . |
| 24 | Now it appeared that Mario and his halfwit nephew were making fun of him . |
| 25 | The audience gave a great cheer , recognizing that the actors were making fun of them and of each other . |
| 26 | But Spitting Image they were making fun of them and they had a |
| 27 | At that same moment the Cubist painters , other than Picasso and Braque , were making contact with each other on the basis of common pictorial interests , while the Italians were banded together with an elaborate programme but no adequate means of expressing it . |
| 28 | A party meeting was to be held on the following Monday and the Whips were making preparation for a vote to be taken . |
| 29 | They always knew where the next offensive was because they were making maps for them . |
| 30 | The very next day he was upbraided by the professor for giggling out loud in Gross Anatomy : Rolf and Rudolph were making jokes about the new female corpse . |