Example sentences of "[prep] [be] made the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A £5-A-RACE flagman was today facing the prospect of disciplinary action over the Grand National fiasco after being made the scapegoat in the official inquiry report . |
| 2 | ‘ Far from pretending that wives are in general no better treated than slaves … no slave is a slave to the same lengths and in so full a sense of the word as a wife is [ for her husband ] can claim from her and enforce the lowest degradation of a human being , that of being made the instrument of an animal function contrary to her inclinations . ’ |
| 3 | In fact , its success was such that it was given the ‘ unique honour ’ of being made the secretariat to the Intergroup on Animal Welfare — an all-party committee which discusses welfare issues . |
| 4 | It would have served as a substitute-gratification for their own sadism ( i.e. , ‘ I can not retaliate against my father , but I can against my younger brother ’ ) ; but also as a defence on the part of the ego ( i.e. , ‘ I am spared the anxiety of being made the object of an attack if I can instead become the attacker ’ ) ; finally , it would also have contributed a first , rudimentary focus for the superego ( i.e. , ‘ My father is not now the attacker — I am — hence I am to that extent my father ! ’ ) . |
| 5 | Education performs political , social , as well as economic functions and it is thus too important to be made the slave to the needs of the economy even though it has no option but to be its servant . |
| 6 | If an order of rectification is to be made the case must be brought within at least one of paragraphs ( a ) to ( h ) of section 82(1) . |
| 7 | Where the principle object of a Bill was money , it was formerly the practice for it to be made the subject of a debate in the Commons upon a resolution before the Bill was read a first time . |
| 8 | The plaintiff argued that it was not therefore open to the Revenue to seek an alteration of the existing assessments , because any information supplied in compliance with a s 17 , FA 1975 notice had to be made the subject of a new or further assessment . |
| 9 | now my Lord , your Lordship would of seen from the case and now from the continental television case , both in the divisional court and in the court of appeal , that where a reference is to be made the court that is marking the reference , if , what is sort to be done is either to challenge a British statute or in the case of er , er the red hot Dutch case , of course with the statute , er something which er it involves a ministerial decision , but in either of those instances the court has got to decide in the interim whether or not the statute or measure should remain in force and there is the priority of public policy as indicated in er Lord er speech referred to both in the divisional court and in the court of appeal in continental television in er maintaining the law in force and a , a bonus has to be faced by the person seeking discipline from the law to show us a sufficiently strong case to justify the er , er , the suspension of the law in the interim . |
| 10 | Now my Lord , your Lordship would of seen from , in fact the same case , and now from the continental television case , both in the divisional court and in the court of appeal , that where a reference is to be made the court that is making the reference , it what is sort to be done is either to challenge a British statute or in the case of er , er the red hot Dutch case , in fact the terms were caused in the statute er something which in involves a ministerial decision , but in either of those instances the court has got to decide in the interim whether or not the statute or measure should remain in force and there is the priority of public policy as indicated in er Lord er speech referred to both in the divisional court and in the court of appeal in continental television in maintaining the law in force and a , a bonus has to be faced by the person seeking discipline the law to show us the simply strong case to justify the er , er the suspension of the law in the interim . |
| 11 | In addition , we saw that if Christianity was to be made the source of values this would create a logical inconsistency in Professor Hayek 's defence of the spontaneous order . |
| 12 | It was nearing the ninth hour , and Jesus , who had resisted sin throughout his life , now , because of his obedience , became sin itself — not by wilful act but by being made the crucible of the whole sum of human evil . |
| 13 | On his retirement , George Healey was honoured by being made the Association 's first deaf Patron , and at the Southampton Congress shortly before his death in 1925 he was presented with an illuminated testimonial and a cheque for his pension fund . |