Example sentences of "have be made a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | But I mean it could 've been made a bit bigger than that could n't it , for the seat |
2 | John Thaw , star of Central Television 's Inspector Morse has been made a CBE in the new years honours list . |
3 | Sue Thomas feels the law in this case has been made a fool of |
4 | East Cleveland academic Dr Mike Featherstone , 45 , of Marske Lane , Skelton , has been made a professor by Teesside Polytechnic on the eve of its elevation to university status . |
5 | I do so because I believe she has been made a scapegoat for what happened . |
6 | His creator James Driscoll has just returned to Britain after signing a £20 million deal to create the 40-acre fun park in Samara , 600 miles east of Moscow — where Digswell has been made a Freeman of the City . |
7 | Getting into your loft quickly and safely has been made a lot easier with the unique collection of aluminium and wooden ladders and staircases available from the Loft Shop . |
8 | So now Marcus has been made an example of and locked up , and all for some crime committed from behind a desk . |
9 | While John Thaw is made a CBE Olympic oarsman and President of Oxford University rowing club Matthew Pinsent , who won gold in Barcelona in the coxless pairs , has been made an MBE . |
10 | I 'd been made a lance-corporal just before we left and had been put in charge of a group of boys . |
11 | SEGA brought Night Trap before the Board voluntarily , but had it not done so the game would have been made a test case . |
12 | If Piggy had not told Ralph his nickname in the beginning he would not have been made a ridicule of before the vote . |
13 | Eden was so angry at having been made a fool of that the Director General of MI6 , Sir John ‘ Sinbad ’ Sinclair , was obliged to retire prematurely and was replaced by the head of MI5 , Sir Dick White . |
14 | His relief at not having been made a fool of was matched by his curiosity to find out who the devil he was , this man Iying chest down on the wet flagstones , face turned to one side as though asleep . |
15 | Butterworth was ‘ on the skids ’ , having been made a scapegoat by Acheson for the bankruptcy of American policy in China ; Butterworth would shortly be posted abroad , which was correct as he soon afterwards departed to be American minister in Stockholm . |
16 | A hospital in the Bradford district had renovated some ward space for geriatric patients who subsequently ended up elsewhere , the purchasers presumably having been made an offer they could n't refuse . |
17 | John Fisher , a Cambridge man , is the only head of a college at either university to have been made a saint . |
18 | One thousand babies later , in April 1919 , Edith Pye departed , one of very few women to have been made a chévalier of the Legion of Honour . |
19 | Ben had been made a Companion of Honour in the Coronation Honours List and the very fact that he was writing an opera for the Coronation created jealousy in some quarters . |
20 | New Zealand 's Foreign Affairs Minister , Don McKinnon , said that he was " appalled and disgusted " to learn that the agent had been made a knight in the National Order of Merit . |
21 | But by the end of the 1890s , although her work had long been recognized and she had been made a founder-councillor of the London county council in 1899 , Emma Cons was approaching a breakdown caused by overwork , not only at the theatre but in all her other housing and philanthropic efforts ( she was also vice-president of the London Society for Women 's Suffrage , an executive member of the Women 's Liberal Foundations , and a founder of the Women 's Horticultural College at Swanley ) . |
22 | The British egg industry had been made a scapegoat for food poisoning by the Government . |
23 | In his book Under Fire : An American Story , published on Oct. 22 , North avowed that former President Ronald Reagan not only " knew everything " about the Iran-contra project but also " enthusiastically " backed it , and that he had been made a scapegoat by senior Reagan administration officials seeking to protect the President and themselves . |
24 | The Boro 's second leading scorer felt he had been made a scapegoat for the home defeat by Watford . |
25 | Even now that she had been made a director of the firm , Laura was well aware that it did n't mean that she had a job for life . |
26 | ‘ It is n't every man who approves of women having ambition , ’ Ashley remarked a touch cryptically — for when she had been made a director several of her male colleagues had found it very hard to handle . |
27 | The COI also made it widely-known that the shy Blewitt had been made a Freeman of the City of London in recognition of Dunston-based DMB 's skills in tackling the restoration of the city 's Blackfriars Bridge . |
28 | It was stressed last night that Mr Trippier , once Mr Clarke 's parliamentary private secretary , was unaware that a 9 per cent ‘ final offer ’ had been made a week before his letter . |
29 | The importance of sugar production can be judged from a story dating from 1516 when Simon Gonçalves de Câmara , the Governor of the island , whose son had been made a bishop , sent a present to the Pope of a model of the papal palace with figures representing the whole Court and the Cardinals — all made in sugar . |
30 | This boost did much to wipe out the effect of Balfour 's referendum pledge , which had been made a month before the Reciprocity Agreement and was erroneously believed to be its cause . |