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 . |