Example sentences of "[noun] have [been] made a " in BNC.

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1 The base has been made a free port and special economic zone .
2 Sue Thomas feels the law in this case has been made a fool of
3 John Thaw , star of Central Television 's Inspector Morse has been made a CBE in the new years honours list .
4 New Zealand 's Foreign Affairs Minister , Don McKinnon , said that he was " appalled and disgusted " to learn that the agent had been made a knight in the National Order of Merit .
5 The British egg industry had been made a scapegoat for food poisoning by the Government .
6 Her job had been made a little easier by the price-fixing agreement reached at a recent meeting for European farm ministers .
7 ‘ No , the wall has been made a permanent fixture , I 'm afraid . ’
8 The COI also made it widely-known that the shy Blewitt had been made a Freeman of the City of London in recognition of Dunston-based DMB 's skills in tackling the restoration of the city 's Blackfriars Bridge .
9 The lives of countless millions of people have been made a misery through the conflicts arising from prejudice .
10 His creator James Driscoll has just returned to Britain after signing a £20 million deal to create the 40-acre fun park in Samara , 600 miles east of Moscow — where Digswell has been made a Freeman of the City .
11 John Fisher , a Cambridge man , is the only head of a college at either university to have been made a saint .
12 Yet it is hardly likely that even if links had been made a ramshackle group of peasant armies using antiquated military techniques could have stood out for long against the Red Army .
13 When the Supreme Court reconvened for its new session in October , its slim conservative majority had been made a little stronger by the retirement of liberal Justice William J. Brennan and his replacement by David H. Souter [ see pp. 37604-05 ; 37703-04 ] .
14 Ben had been made a Companion of Honour in the Coronation Honours List and the very fact that he was writing an opera for the Coronation created jealousy in some quarters .
15 One thousand babies later , in April 1919 , Edith Pye departed , one of very few women to have been made a chévalier of the Legion of Honour .
16 Trade sanctions have been threatened and copyright has been made a high-profile issue in international negotiations .
17 It was announced on Dec. 18 that former Foreign Minister Acheikh bin Oumar had been made a special councillor to Déby .
18 The importance of sugar production can be judged from a story dating from 1516 when Simon Gonçalves de Câmara , the Governor of the island , whose son had been made a bishop , sent a present to the Pope of a model of the papal palace with figures representing the whole Court and the Cardinals — all made in sugar .
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