Example sentences of "[was/were] made [to-vb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I decided that it was time to pack up I decided that the nights were made to sleep on n n n and I was going to sleep on them you see ? |
| 2 | Attempts were made to push out the burning fuel with scaffolding poles . |
| 3 | Serious attempts were made to level up the resources for secondary modem schools , in order to make them comparable with grammar schools , and so achieve that parity to which Ellen Wilkinson was openly committed . |
| 4 | Still shivering , we were made to lie down , men and women in adjoining beds . |
| 5 | They were made to lie down on the floor in the back . |
| 6 | It seems that when they were made to lie down in the back of the truck and their hands were tied behind them , Katrine remembers there being rags underneath her . |
| 7 | The VBK was put under state control and Jewish members were made to give up their positions in the association as early as 1933 . |
| 8 | The practice of ‘ warping ’ , whereby tidal waters were made to flow back and deposit their rich silts over the land , was popular . |
| 9 | Attempts were made to put out the fire . |
| 10 | Attempts were made to root out those businessmen who had supported Hitler and to break up the industrial cartels which had provided the materials for the German war efforts . |
| 11 | In spite of the continuing scepticism and regardless of the clinical faults of the new drugs , many attempts were made to find out how and where in the brain they worked . |
| 12 | For many years these agencies operated free of any congressional oversight and , while many members of Congress clearly preferred not to know what they were doing , any attempts that were made to find out were firmly rebuffed . |
| 13 | In the late 1930s Japanese became the official language and attempts were made to wipe out the indigenous Korean culture . |
| 14 | The lorry stopped near a church and we were made to get down . |
| 15 | In 1943 the course was at risk of being farmed when official orders were made to plough up the 9th , 10th , 11th , 12th , 13th and 14th holes . |
| 16 | Maybe it is time you were made to come out of your shell . ’ |
| 17 | An attempt was made to blow up a police chief . |
| 18 | The limitations to this structure were already clear by the 1960s , and an attempt was made to shift back towards lighter industries and consumer goods . |
| 19 | Ideas and information were exchanged , and an attempt was made to map out in very general terms what the two nations had in common in the Middle East . |
| 20 | A third technique was to sell off a proportion of the whole operation , as it did with British Telecom , British Gas , British Aerospace , and Britoil ; and British Rail was made to sell off its hotels . |
| 21 | An effort was made to clean up the water supplies , thereby helping to reduce the transmission of water-borne agents of disease : between 1972 and 1990 , almost 1 million handpump tubewells were installed in Bangladesh . |
| 22 | In addition to the methods mentioned above , which were used specifically to evaluate the undergraduate information retrieval course , an attempt was made to carry out a long-term study on the use of the library with regard to reasons for use , materials used , success in carrying out literature searches etc . |
| 23 | Until 1978 that is , when we had the first and last National Conference in this country and after spending about three days cooking rice and feeling very exhausted , I went up on the platform to speak on behalf of Chi lean women and I was made to shut up . |
| 24 | An effort was made to set up the stud in a more favoured , not to say more conventional , site in the foothills of the Nilgiris . |
| 25 | After which an attempt was made to set out the most elementary logical conditions that must be satisfied before anything can qualify as a potential existent . |
| 26 | Easy on the eye this room ( right ) was made to relax in . |
| 27 | But with this , as with council-house building , no real attempt was made to turn back the clock on processes that were ultimately totally to transform the character of Britain 's housing market . |
| 28 | Although the sums remitted back from the US were much lower than expected , and continuing high taxation rates caused a drain on domestic box office receipts , no attempt was made to rein in film budgets . |
| 29 | ‘ So what you ended up with was a shot of the Thal looking up , followed by a cut to a low angle close up of the trough where , by pumping up the rubber ring , the body of the monster was made to rise out of the water . |
| 30 | When a colleague had some treatment , a tape was played and he was made to look up at the highest point of the ceiling . |