Example sentences of "[be] made a [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 | 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 . |
13 | When mistakes are made a full apology is often less damaging than a grudging admission that events have not gone as planned . |
14 | Mr Randall said : ‘ In general terms , we do see room for hacking to be made a criminal offence . ’ |
15 | Domestic affairs shall be made a criminal offence . |
16 | Our working relationship , I am sure , would be made a great deal easier . ’ |
17 | As my hon. Friend knows , our fundamental position on reform is that the intervention system must be made a great deal less attractive . |
18 | It will be made a London-based company , Blue Heaven Productions , for the ITV network . |
19 | 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 ? |
20 | 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 " . |
21 | Similarly , a requirement that the expert observe the rules of natural justice could be made a contractual obligation . |
22 | He received recognition there by being made a honorary member of the Botanical Society of Florence , a body existing from 1718 to 1783 . |
23 | Another draft document said Lithuania 's continued membership of the Soviet Union depended on the country being made a fit place to live . |
24 | Other honours included being made a foreign member of the Norwegian and Swedish academies and an honorary member of the Boston Society of Natural History and the Société Zoologique de France . |
25 | This may imply that in cremating areas the vessels were made a certain size for the specific function of containing the ashes , whereas in areas practising inhumation there may not have been such specialised production , the vessels being drawn from the domestic stock . |
26 | The comments above by Sisam ( 1915 ) and Hall ( 1920 ) arise directly from Skeats 's views , and , although these comments were made a long time ago , it would be a mistake to think that the Anglo-Norman argument has now been abandoned . |
27 | These points were made a long time ago by Kahn-Freund in ( 1940–1 ) 4 MLR 221 , but have never been satisfactorily answered . |
28 | A joint commission was also to be established to discuss with the United States government the proposal in June by President George Bush that the Americas be made a free-trade zone [ see p. 37526 ] . |
29 | At the meeting Japan proposed that the annual PMC be made a regular forum for dialogue focused on regional security issues . |
30 | The choice between big city life and small town values is made a great deal easier by the fact that this idyllic southern country village is like Twin Peaks without the psychopaths , peopled entirely by lovable eccentrics and glamorous models . |