Example sentences of "[was/were] make [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Saturday promises to be a great day for the public and will give children a chance to see the cars which were made famous for them through the Back to the Future film . ’ |
| 2 | All night he had laboured in prayer and watching , then rising and sitting in his chair , as it were made new for the occasion , which had been placed before the chimney in his parlour , and in the midst of his chaplains , servants and officers who were praying for him , he expired as if sleeping , and without a groan yielded up his spirit most purely to his Creator . " |
| 3 | Using what would now be called GIS skills , Openshaw ( 1980 ) examined over 13 000 1 km grid squares in the UK which intersect the coastline and related these to data from the 1971 Census ( which were made available for such grid squares ) . |
| 4 | Inexpensive conversion-kits were made available for many Edison models of phonograph , and the new ‘ four-minute ’ cylinders remained in production until 1929 . |
| 5 | Those working at Grange Terrace and Granton , however , did not move to Murchison House until 1976 , when the Grange Terrace premises were made available for staff primarily engaged on projects related to hydrocarbon geology . |
| 6 | The first set of temporary positions were offered in December 1983 for the spring and summer terms in 1984 , while further positions were made available for the autumn term 1984 and the spring term in 1985 . |
| 7 | Taxi drivers still complain a bit , as they do , but parking facilities were made available for the disabled . |
| 8 | The North York Moors National Parks campaign Bag It , in which eyecatching biodegradable bags were made available for rubbish , was said to be an imaginative solution to the litter problem . |
| 9 | Large factories were made accountable for their own production , profits and losses . |
| 10 | Pair after pair of serwal were made ready for the tailor 's sewing machine . |
| 11 | W.H. Chaloner writes that during eight years between '58 & '67 a total of 904 tons of ore were made ready for smelting ; Sir Michael le Fleming , the new Lord , receiving dues amounting to £376 : 15s. : 0d. it is not known where the main ore dressing floor was located but it was probably on the site of the 19th century floors — near the present youth hostel . |
| 12 | There have also been symbolic measures ( such as restoring pay beds in NHS facilities ) , minor cuts ( such as withdrawal of supplementary benefits in vacations for students ) , some marginal privatization ( from 1986 employers were made responsible for paying sickness benefit for the first 28 weeks of an employee 's absence from work ) , tougher criteria ( people have to be ‘ actually seeking work ’ to be entitled to receive unemployment benefit and since 1 988 housing benefit is paid to fewer households ) , and an increase in the numbers relying on private medical insurance ( from 4 to 8 per cent since 1979 ) . |
| 13 | The Forestry ( Transfer of Woods ) Act of 1923 transferred the property in them to the forestry Commissioners , who were made responsible for their care and management . |
| 14 | The boroughs and districts were made responsible for high spending services such as education ( except in inner London ) and social services . |
| 15 | Hence the constant , and eventually often vain , calls of the leaders of such new states to surmount ‘ tribalism ’ , ‘ communalism ’ , or whatever forces were made responsible for the failure of the new inhabitants of the Republic of X to feel themselves to be primarily patriotic citizens of X rather than members of some other collectivity . |
| 16 | William Berkeley , William Ovedale and Roger Kelsale were made responsible for victualling the ships , and were also authorized to receive all those prepared to make their peace with the new regime except Woodville himself , Dorset ( the only indication that he might have joined his uncle ) and Robert Ratcliffe , a former associate of Rivers at Calais . |
| 17 | In 1325 escheators were made responsible for keeping duplicates of inquisitions of diem clausit and of returns to chancery ; in 1326 a calendar of Contrariant lands was begun , a roll of serjeanties in various counties compiled and further auditors were appointed . |
| 18 | Local authorities were made responsible for the welfare of the handicapped under the National Assistance Act of 1948 . |
| 19 | Outside the metropolitan areas the division of the social policy functions was more even : the counties acquired responsibility for education and social services , while the districts were made responsible for housing . |
| 20 | These authorities were made responsible for the ‘ catechetical instruction ’ of children in elementary schools , according to their parents ' denomination . |
| 21 | The courts and tribunals were made responsible for ensuring the smooth running of electoral campaigns and equal treatment of candidates . |
| 22 | William Berkeley , William Ovedale and Roger Kelsale were made responsible for victualling the ships , and were also authorized to receive all those prepared to make their peace with the new regime except Woodville himself , Dorset ( the only indication that he might have joined his uncle ) and Robert Ratcliffe , a former associate of Rivers at Calais . |
| 23 | In the interests of maintaining " fair competition " between public and private providers and the efficient use of capital , a system of capital charges was introduced into the NHS for the first time , and all hospitals were made responsible for meeting the interest and depreciation costs of their existing assets and new investment . |
| 24 | At the height of the B one and B two attacks in nineteen forty four , more than two hundred thousand homes per day were made unfit for habitation . |
| 25 | Only when transport was made available for some other reason did journalists — meaning , as a rule , Government journalists — get a chance to report news from Zambia 's rural areas . |
| 26 | The pathfinder prospectus was made available for public viewing on March 16 , and the full prospectus will be released on March 24 . |
| 27 | With the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls , however , a corpus of Essene material was made available for the first time , and it is now possible to assess the Essenes on their own terms . |
| 28 | Part of this land was used for council housing but , as North Tyneside CDP ( 1978a ) makes clear , much was made available for the building of private housing . |
| 29 | In ‘ Partnership ’ , again local authority-owned land was made available for private development , but the new dwellings were reserved for 12 weeks at a stipulated price for purchasers falling into a restricted set of categories of which the most important were first-time buyers on the housing waiting list and households from slum-cleared areas . |
| 30 | Of this amount , SDR24,400,000 ( $32,200,000 ) would be available under the first annual arrangement , of which the first semiannual loan of SDR9,150,000 ( $12,100,000 ) was made available for disbursement on June 15 , 1990 . |