Example sentences of "[prep] [be] make the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That can mean only that UKIAS was to be made the exclusive provider of legal advice . |
| 2 | A few weeks after that incident we received a so-called hot tipoff that an illegal immigrant run was to be made the following night " somewhere between the Thames and Lowestoft ! " |
| 3 | If the right hemisphere is merely slower than the left on this task , then the more matches that have to be made the greater the relative right hemispheric disadvantage should be . |
| 4 | The infant retrieves , or witnesses the retrieval of an object from behind A ( say ) three times , after which he watches as the experimenter moves it to place B. On seeing it vanish at B he will go straight back to A. Although the back-to-A error is more likely to be made the longer the delay between hiding at B and allowing search , this is not a memory problem in any simple sense because the infant will return to A even if the object remains visible at B. We find a particularly clear demonstration of this kind of ‘ perseveration ’ in an experiment by Paul Harris in which there were two transparent , lockable boxes as the A and the B location . |
| 5 | According to this law , if a response made in the presence of a particular stimulus is followed by a reward , that same response is more likely to be made the next time the stimulus is encountered . |
| 6 | The second thinks of it as a canvas to be made the most of ; yet another surface to decorate or ornament . |
| 7 | On a less arrogant interpretation , he seems to be making the reasonable point that the appreciative stance is less likely to overlook both positive and negative aspects of deviance simply because it is more open to the acceptance of both possibilities . |