Example sentences of "[subord] they [verb] [been] make " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mind , not everybody 's got the money to erm pay for jobs have they , today , if they 've been made redundant they have n't got the money . |
| 2 | That last bomb had taken out those houses as if it had come with a great grasping fist and scooped them up and crunched them into rubble as easily as if they 'd been made of matchsticks . |
| 3 | Angelo Heilprin , an American geologist who visited the scene a few weeks later and wrote a book about the tragedy , described ‘ twisted bars of iron , great masses of roof sheeting wrapped like cloth about posts upon which they had been flung , and iron girders looped and festooned as if they had been made of rope ’ . |
| 4 | The answer is probably that workers come a lot cheaper in China , but the money they have saved that way could surely have been doubled in extra sales — not to mention saving on shipping costs — if they had been made in a British factory . |
| 5 | The drawing-room was full of rugs that looked upsettingly as if they had been made from earlier Afghans . |
| 6 | Critics also argue that , because statements made under the lobby rules mean that they can not be directly attributed to Mr Ingham , his colleagues or Government Ministers , they are less credible than if they had been made on the record . |
| 7 | Yet they were now learning to kiss as if they had been made for one another , she thought in panic . |
| 8 | They were talking rationally now , as adults , just as she had asked , but underneath the façade of civilised behaviour her heart was still doing funny things , and the electricity between them was as powerful as if they had been making love . |
| 9 | The Luttrell Psalter of 1338 illustrates a watermill complete with eel traps which look very much as if they have been made out of pliant willow stems . |
| 10 | Even tin — imagine , just imagine , my dear and most esteemed Advocate , one of those medical illustrations , those écorché figures showing the skeins of muscle , the ropes of veins , in three dimensions , and then transmuted into metal , so that the tissues and channels and ducts and gristle ’ — the speaker 's hands traced intricate forms in the air in his morbid enthusiasm — ‘ look as if they have been made out of silver wire . ’ |
| 11 | One in six patients in hospital in Britain are there because they 've been made ill by doctors . |
| 12 | But the number joining the register because they had been made jobless dropped 25,700 to 352,400 . |
| 13 | Reasonably enough , there were those on the list who were angry because they had been made liable to investigation by the tax authorities . |
| 14 | Dogs are polymorphic in appearance because they have been made to look different by selective breeding controlled by their human masters . |
| 15 | When the experience itself arrives , the hazards will be attenuated because they have been made familiar by being anticipated , and the individuals will already have been set on the path of healthy coping responses . |
| 16 | The question arises as to whether this is the result of their having fallen into apathy out of fear of repression and a belief that it is not possible to make progress ; or whether it is precisely because they have been making progress through existing channels that the militant challenge has withered . |
| 17 | Equitable treatments must be devised that recognize economic sacrifices ( whether they 've been made by men or women ) as well as economic achievements . |
| 18 | problems in the development of language and communication , including poor comprehension ; inability to express speech or no speech ; inability to understand non-verbal gestures , and a tendency to repeat or ‘ echo ’ the remarks of others , often long after they have been made . |
| 19 | That is certainly not the case , because we include them only after they have been made to fit in with our rules of the game . |
| 20 | These were not new problems , though they had been made worse by the rapid growth of population , industry and cities . |
| 21 | That as they 've been made redundant , as they 've been victimized for trade union activity possibly , we then as a union decide that they can not stand for office ? |