Example sentences of "[was/were] made to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Though concessions were made to royal justice over the forest laws and in cases concerning land , the church courts ' competence over marriage and legitimacy cases and wills was henceforth assured as was the notion of " benefit of clergy " .
2 Contributions were made to related work on fee tendering and on co-ordinated conditions of engagement by the Construction Industry Council .
3 Under a programme jointly funded by BGS , the Royal Society and the National Natural Science Foundation of China , a visit was made to north-eastern China to investigate the structural relationships between the North and South China cratons .
4 The nearest approach which was made to judicial independence was in 1289 , when Edward I enacted that the seneschal of Aquitaine was the principal seneschal set above all the sub-seneschals ( of the Agenais , Landes , Quercy , Limousin and so forth ) .
5 The announcement was made to Downtown Radio shortly after three more shootings .
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