Example sentences of "be made [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One telephone call which could easily have been faked from any phone box , a letter which no one outside the family has seen , and a pay-off which will supposedly take place once arrangements have been made over a telephone number they refuse to disclose . |
| 2 | A few months later , Harry Goodman responded with a full frontal attack , claiming that 9000 children in the care of the RCM had ‘ practically no Jewish contacts and that no effort had been made over a period of years to give these children some religious education ’ . |
| 3 | No decision has been made over a youth coach , a position Hankin held before his sudden promotion to the manager 's office . |
| 4 | If public medical statements have been made about a man 's deleterious effect on his son 's psyche there is bound to be anxiety and embarrassment attendant on their meeting . |
| 5 | A large amount of the surrounding land has recently been made into a golf course . |
| 6 | Beatrix Potter 's classic children 's story ’ The Tailor of Gloucester ’ has been made into a video . |
| 7 | One cabin had been made into a pottery , others had council murals daubed over them . |
| 8 | The story of the two poets , dramatic in itself , has been made into a play by Robert Southam . |
| 9 | Now it has been made into a film by British scriptwriter Harold Pinter and German director Volker Schlondorff . |
| 10 | The closing of the railway line was regretted but the station has been made into a club and the old engine shed into a sports hall . |
| 11 | At Machrie , Kilchoman , the mill has been made into a house and there was a millstone there which was only about two inches thick ; another thin stone was on the south bank of the Saligo river at NR208639 , which is not far away . |
| 12 | Held , dismissing the appeal ( Lord Keith of Kinkel and Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle dissenting ) , that although the common law had previously only admitted recovery of money exacted under an unlawful demand by a public authority where the payment had been made under a mistake of fact or under limited categories of compulsion , which did not apply to the payments by the building society , the nature of a demand for tax or similar impost on the citizen by the state , with the perceived economic and social consequences of non-payment stemming from the inequality of the parties ' respective positions , and the unjust enrichment falling on the state where the citizen paid an unlawful demand to avoid those consequences , warranted a reformulation of the law of restitution so as to recognise a prima facie right of recovery based solely on payment of money pursuant to an ultra vires demand by a public authority ; and that , accordingly , since the building society 's claim fell outside the statutory framework governing repayment of overpaid tax , it was entitled at common law to repayment of the sums from the dates of payments and to interest in respect thereof pursuant to section 35A of the Supreme Court Act 1981 ( post , pp. 384H , 387D , F–G , 389B , 390F — 391C , E–F , 392E , 396C , 414B–C , F–G , 415E–F , 416A–B , 417B , 418A–C , E–F , 421D–F , G ) . |
| 13 | A No Claims Bonus of 7.5% is being introduced for members in the Republic of Ireland where no claims have been made under a policy for more than 12 months . |
| 14 | Faye demanded , in her pert , pretty way that did nothing to hide her seriousness , why all these plans had been made without a meeting to get everyone 's approval ? |
| 15 | If the ships had been made of a material like glass they would have broken long before a crack became conspicuous . |
| 16 | This is easiest to detect when the mound has been made of a material with a distinctive colour , such as chalk . |
| 17 | Some use has been made of a control suggested by Kurtz ( 1955 ) , in which the subjects received pre-training on a same — different task . |
| 18 | If a correction has been made on a cheque , the correction should be signed in full by the drawer . |
| 19 | The grave claim that politicians are muddying the clear statistical waters has been made on a mumber of occasions now by Sir Claus Moser , a former head of the government statistical service . |
| 20 | By the end of July an advance of about two and a half miles had been made on a front which at this depth did not exceed two miles . ’ |
| 21 | A start has been made on a study of the Iapetus Convergence Zone , which is designed to complement local investigations in the Southern Uplands and northern England , and to provide the regional setting for them . |
| 22 | Nicholson did not appear in the film and was used as a production assistant by Corman ; but it is worth mentioning because it was a significant moment in Hollywood history , inspiring as it did a succession of similar films when other producers noticed that The Wild Angels grossed eight million dollars in no time at all , and had been made on a shoestring budget . |
| 23 | Arrangements have now been made with a station network in Khabarovsk to broadcast a daily 90 minute programme with the possibility of increasing airtime even further . |
| 24 | A certificate of deposit ( CD ) states that a deposit has been made with a bank for a fixed period of time at the end of which it will be repaid with interest . |
| 25 | In the course of earlier related research in the context of accounting applications , contact has already been made with a number of UK organisations who are using , or about to use , expert systems . |
| 26 | He suggests , for example , that instead of making a care order an interim care order should have been made with a view to reviewing the progress of rehabilitation in six or nine months time . |
| 27 | This announcement had been made at a council of the ROC , but was retracted in Kiev on April 14 on the grounds that it had been made under pressure . |
| 28 | This ruling had been made at a meeting with the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa . |
| 29 | In the case of psychoanalytic theory , there needs to be an understanding , first , of an undistorted version of the theory as stated by Freud , and then various changes in the theory can be seen as either having been made to attain greater rational consistency , or to incorporate new ‘ findings ’ which refute some of the previous assumptions , or to have been made as a result of social pressures on theory-makers eager to find a role for their theories in the society . |
| 30 | The award had been made to a couple whose two-bedroom house , bought for £9,000 in 1978 with a council mortgage , later proved unsaleable due to subsidence . |