Example sentences of "[be] made [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But most certainly the road to the latter , with its decadence and exploitation , has been made a great deal smoother , shorter and more popular by the compromise and self-interest of the clerics and assorted fellow travellers of the so-called ‘ new morality ’ school .
2 However , it has , in the past , been made a legal offence to rely on customer inertia ; notably in unsolicited postal selling .
3 The water up to 500 metres around the ship has now been made a no-go area , for fear any oil still in the wreck could be a danger to life and property .
4 But the decision made itself , as if it had been made a long time before .
5 Since this case it has been made a criminal offence not to wear a seat belt in the front seat of a car .
6 Trade sanctions have been threatened and copyright has been made a high-profile issue in international negotiations .
7 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 .
8 ‘ No , the wall has been made a permanent fixture , I 'm afraid . ’
9 It was announced on Dec. 18 that former Foreign Minister Acheikh bin Oumar had been made a special councillor to Déby .
10 The base has been made a free port and special economic zone .
11 In many ways this was a sensible policy since even if Danzig had not been made a Free City and had remained within the long arm of Prussia , the local economy was too poor to maintain it for long ; a German Danzig would still have been forced to rely upon a distant Vistula hinterland .
12 Foreman , 43 , has been made the overwhelming favourite to earn his 26th win since he began his unlikely comeback five years ago .
13 Jonathan Phiri has been made the Acting Director of the Africa Literature Centre in Kitwe , Zambia .
14 This is where the swans have been spending the regatta — at Egham just off the M25 in Surrey — it 's just been made the national swan sanctuary and has around 100 birds at any one time .
15 I have been made the Cultural Counsellor of the Italian Embassy , for example .
16 The divine has long been made an intimate participant in male experiences of violence , in war and in political martyrdom .
17 She was a dignified octogenarian aristocrat who had been made an honorary Chief-Corporal in the Regiment since she had served with it in World War Two .
18 He is a keen follower of football and cricket and has recently been made an honorary vice-president of Altrincham FC .
19 Gwendolen Truda Brock ( Sister Truda C. R. ) who spent 1927–8 at Somerville as a research student from South Africa working for her Zoology D. Phil under Professor Goodrich has been made an Honorary Doctor of Laws of Rhodes University .
20 If and when you are made a firm offer of a place , you will be asked to confirm the details of the funds available to you .
21 When mistakes are made a full apology is often less damaging than a grudging admission that events have not gone as planned .
22 For many there was a conviction that the post-war world must be made a better place , a view that recurred regularly over the next twenty years .
23 Mr Randall said : ‘ In general terms , we do see room for hacking to be made a criminal offence . ’
24 Domestic affairs shall be made a criminal offence .
25 Our working relationship , I am sure , would be made a great deal easier . ’
26 As my hon. Friend knows , our fundamental position on reform is that the intervention system must be made a great deal less attractive .
27 It will be made a London-based company , Blue Heaven Productions , for the ITV network .
28 As regards the police , should the publication of racist statements like the unofficial communique be made a disciplinary offence , or would this merely strengthen rank-and-file resistance to the implementation of antiracist policies within the force ?
29 None the less , some statements by members of the Association reveal that the effacement required by this procedure was no more than a tactical ploy , since one of the dominant assumptions of moral education was " that morality was to be made a conscious aim of the teacher , but concealed from the pupils , who were to imbibe the influence from literature as habit or experience " .
30 Similarly , a requirement that the expert observe the rules of natural justice could be made a contractual obligation .
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