Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [be] made [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This lacuna has been made worse by the ILO 's lack of jurisdiction to examine South African labour legislation since South Africa resigned from the Organisation in 1964 . |
| 2 | The re-examination of NVOCC related rules has been made easier by the FMC regulations implementing the 1984 Shipping Act , as amended in 1990 . |
| 3 | Of course the distillery distillery had been made bigger it er put up the population a good bit . |
| 4 | Some writers have argued that the problem of overload has been made worse by the centralization of government decision-making . |
| 5 | This last the verderers thought the least likely course because the escape had been made nearer to the north of the depression than the south and it would therefore take a day longer to get round it on that side . |
| 6 | BLIND people whose lives have been made easier by the work of a Darlington woman gathered this weekend to say thank you . |
| 7 | Matters have been made worse by the way investment banks scrambled to do junk-bond deals after federal investigators closed in on Mr Milken . |
| 8 | It would appear that the above problems have been made worse by some of the recent frequency reallocations , and the lack of awareness of the Authority concerning these matters is quite astounding . |
| 9 | The problems have been made worse by the continuing recession and the extra cost of providing services in rural areas . |
| 10 | Conditions have been made worse by intense heat and the continuing drought . |
| 11 | The inflationary impact had been made worse by the President acquiescing in the passing of a law in Congress ordering an unprecedented 40 per cent increase in minimum wages in the private sector . |
| 12 | And I think you 'll agree , it is a difficult I mean I always stress this point about attitude , that a lot of problems that we get in our advice centres have been made worse because the customer has caused er you know argument or a scene |
| 13 | ‘ I read a very good piece by Candida Crewe , in which she said that she felt her life had been made richer by having had step-parents . |
| 14 | For instance , there was a shortage of surveyors in Ireland at that time ; the perennial shortage of all skilled artisans and middle-class professionals had been made worse by the demand for public works to relieve the distress following the potato disease . |
| 15 | Many who invested in UK-based Barlow Clowes Gilt Managers and its Gibraltar sister operation , Barlow Clowes International , were elderly people whose plight has been made worse by the loss of their savings . |
| 16 | The confusion about the project has been made worse by the Government 's vacillation and indecision , and also by their lack of answers to my hon. Friends about where the finance for the project will come from . |
| 17 | Labour candidate Alan Milburn hit back saying the Tories were rattled by the campaign and the people of Darlington had been made poorer by 13 years of Conservative misrule . |
| 18 | ‘ The people of Darlington have been made poorer by the poll tax and by 13 years of Conservative misrule . |
| 19 | Monitoring of large rivers has been made easier by a new device , which tells scientists where fish are lurking . |
| 20 | An inadequate system has been made worse by the Government 's decision that it will no longer accept responsibility for collecting maintenance unless there have been irregular payments . |
| 21 | A Dutch company in charge of the salvage operation claimed later that the problem had been made worse by the refusal of the Spanish and Moroccan authorities to allow the tanker to be towed into their ports for pumping of the remaining oil and for emergency repairs . |
| 22 | We have not seen any patients whose physical pain has been made worse by morphine or diamorphine , nor are we aware of any good evidence that this occurs . |
| 23 | But the hard part of making the original design has been made easier by using Creation 6 . |
| 24 | The result is that short field performance has been addressed , the propeller pitch has been made finer , reducing the take-off roll to some 804 feet ( hard surface ) , and cutting the cruise performance by a few knots to around 100 . |