Example sentences of "made [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Lees ( FoE ) said that countries should be made to restore the damaged environment to an acceptable state through practical action and if the country refused to do this only then should financial penalties by imposed .
2 Isagoras invoked the aid of King Cleomenes of Sparta , and an attempt was made to restore the aristocratic oligarchy .
3 Lightweight leather boots had been creeping into the market since the 1970s or even earlier , but were not made using the new technology .
4 Simply set up the machine in minutes , cast on over the 100 needles and off you go — sweaters in yarns from Double Knitting to Chunky can quickly be made using the famous BOND Classic Knitting System on which the new Sweater Machine is based .
5 Requests for updates to buyers ' criteria should be made using the standard letter at 1108.6 .
6 Crystals from apoR2 were made using the hanging-drop method .
7 Made using the excellent footage , this hour-long video follows the exploits of the Whitbread 's first women 's team .
8 However , after the event several attempts have been made to estimate the direct cost of participating in the EC .
9 The published policy of the Secretary of State was that he would not grant consent for the total or substantial demolition of a listed building unless he was satisfied that every effort had been made to continue the present use or find an alternative use .
10 In almost every case , in fact , the attempts that were being made to promote the cultural interests of non-Russian nationalities came into conflict with the multinational composition of each of the republics , not just of the USSR as a whole .
11 and anticipate that revisions will have to be made to accommodate the new system but , they said , ‘ This shows the flexibility needed to meet our customers ’ needs in a changing environment ’ .
12 Even more revolutionary , though , were the social adjustments that needed to be made to accommodate the new masses .
13 Yet although attempts were made to assure the British public that telephone-tapping was conducted in the most exceptional and in the most highly controlled circumstances , it was suspected by some that the practice was very different .
14 A scion is the growth that arises from an implanted bud or graft , whereas the stock — sometimes referred to as the root- stock — is the host plant that receives the bud or graft , with its own top growth removed so that its sap and energies are made to support the new guest .
15 Returning to the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for Normanton , those of us who have constituencies north of London are anxious to ensure that when the channel tunnel opens in 1993 — that is the only certainty in the project — at least some attempt has been made to provide the essential services without which areas north of London will receive no benefit from this enormous project .
16 Above all , increasing attempts are being made to provide the lay visitor , if he or she so desires , with a genuinely worthwhile educational experience .
17 Paints for people with allergies : Some of the chemicals in paint can bring on allergic reactions in sensitive people , and some paints are made omitting the specific materials that cause these allergies .
18 The degree of eclecticism was considerable , and efforts were made to find the Western model , or the aspects of it , that would be most appropriate to the Japanese situation .
19 The heavy wooden door had been made to stand the occasional arrow from a dissatisfied Indian .
20 A tape recording , taken by someone at that meeting suggests that an agreement was made to compensate the disillusioned traders .
21 Needless to say the Spanish settlers brought missionaries with them and successful attempts were made to impose the Catholic liturgy on a people with their own living religious tradition .
22 Proposals have been made to replace the outmoded apprenticeship system by a proper training course , but they have foundered because no one is willing to put up the funds .
23 No attempt is made to explore the practical effects of the rule .
24 Here some effort will be made to explore the theoretical significance of the commonly-experienced phenomenon of hearing a voice and knowing that it is familiar but not knowing to whom it belongs .
25 Some patients are , in spite of reassurance , unwilling to give their real names and in these cases a fictitious name is quite in order , with the one proviso that an attempt should be made to remember the false name in case a further visit should be needed .
26 Meanwhile moves were made to tackle the other end of the equation .
27 In addition to such steps , in Canada , New South Wales and Michigan , attempts have been made to tackle the non-consent requirement itself .
28 The second move which might be made to counter the relativistic flavour of my earlier argument would be to argue that , despite the changing discipline-bound truth criteria , the intellectual enterprise as a whole is founded on certain context-independent truth criteria .
29 The rectangular plaques , showing battle scenes and officials in court dress , were made to decorate the wooden columns of the palace .
30 There was little doubt among those concerned that through education youth could be made to exhibit the appropriate values .
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