Example sentences of "[be] make [to-vb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it is claimed that a poetics of textual production and reflexivity replaces mimetic strategies of any kind , then the early nouveau roman can also be made to conform to this new postmodern aesthetic . |
| 2 | In principle , the first — incentives should not be much affected ; incentives can be made to exist in both cases . |
| 3 | A statute or one section of a statute may be made to deal with some particular subject — perhaps with immigration , or drugs , or housing or education — but a situation arises where doubt is cast on the meaning of the words of the statute . |
| 4 | Despite the establishment of a quango for the universities , the extent of their " national " role was still a matter of controversy , and for this reason discourses on the national education could not , without some difficulty , be made to coexist with those on the university curriculum . |
| 5 | The standard has , however , left some uncertainty as to when and how adjustments should be made to cope with this problem . |
| 6 | J. B. Watson in 1914 and other behaviourist thinkers ( Hull , Skinner ) believed that an acquired behaviour element , the conditioned reflex for example , could be made to account for all behaviour , because such an element could be treated as a ‘ building block in theory much in the same way that nineteenth-century physicists used ‘ atoms ’ to build up a theory of matter . |
| 7 | ( 1a ) Thus by reducing the temperature of matter in the gaseous state it can be made to pass through all three physical states . |
| 8 | Something similar might be said of the following : ( 192 ) Thus by reducing the temperature of matter in the gaseous state it can be made to pass through all three physical states . |
| 9 | It can be made to depend on several contexts , not just one . ) |
| 10 | Many melodies of the last hundred years could not possibly be made to fit into such a restrictive rule — in fact many of us would avoid the feeling of regularity and ‘ squareness ’ that such a classical scheme produces . |
| 11 | She hated to be made to think in this way ; but there were some things you had to think of with your mind , when you could n't straightforwardly see them with your hands , to deal with them then and there . |
| 12 | Such interference could have widespread implications and plans should be made to mitigate against this possibility . |
| 13 | If , on the other hand , something like classes had always existed , as assumed in The German Ideology , the first edition of The Communist Manifesto , and Formen , then the principles developed by Marx in Capital could be made to apply to all societies . |