Example sentences of "[was/were] make [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | English language broadcasts remained but were made part of the country 's external radio services . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Thus the church made its past its own : the martyrs were made present in time ; but they also had to become present in space . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | In 1989 , at least 300 million international journeys were made outbound from the major developed countries alone . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He felt that they were making fun of him , though he could not understand why . |
| 14 | Now it appeared that Mario and his halfwit nephew were making fun of him . |
| 15 | The audience gave a great cheer , recognizing that the actors were making fun of them and of each other . |
| 16 | But Spitting Image they were making fun of them and they had a |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A party meeting was to be held on the following Monday and the Whips were making preparation for a vote to be taken . |
| 19 | Then , suddenly , it was as though she were making love to another man . |
| 20 | ‘ You 'd have known if I was involved with someone else , the same way I 'd have known if you were making love to another woman during the week . ’ |
| 21 | They were making love without contraceptives . |
| 22 | The fact that we were making love in the Parsons ' matrimonial bed , the sheets still warm and smelly from their previous occupant , may have had something to do with it as well . |
| 23 | Ian Humphreys and Duncan Mitchell were making space down the right wing for Milton as the visitors started to click into gear , searching and probing for a way past the Fairmile defence . |
| 24 | But while their cricketing cousins were making history at the Calcutta Eden Garden pitch , rugby was still embroiled in the hard world of politics . |
| 25 | Those present on this unique occasion were well aware they were making history in riding a steam train on the electric line , the first time since a steam engine was used on the construction of the line in the last century ! |
| 26 | Indeed , in the course of our research it became increasingly clear that many of those commenting upon the " new " temporary working were making reference to the same small number of examples of this practice — examples , moreover , in which the number of temporary workers actually employed was often very low [ see Chapter 7 ] . |
| 27 | An example in relation to which the opponents of the ordination of women might be expected to agree that they were making use of such a methodology is the case of slavery . |
| 28 | Finally , fears that fundholders would encourage referrals to private clinics to avoid a charge on their budgets seem to be unfounded , certainly as far as these aggregate data are concerned , and there was only limited evidence that fundholders were making use of their freedom to contract with private hospitals for outpatient services for NHS patients . |
| 29 | And then people were making use of that . |
| 30 | So in some way they were making economy by not doing that ? |