Example sentences of "made [to-vb] the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | However , after the event several attempts have been made to estimate the direct cost of participating in the EC . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Legislation had been tried before , from the late fourteenth century onwards , but more effort was made to enforce the 1651 Act than had been done in the past . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In particular the fearful and horrifying episodes of life with their accompanying pain are played back so that time after time we are made to suffer the same agony that we felt as a child when we had the original experience . |
| 10 | Above all , increasing attempts are being made to provide the lay visitor , if he or she so desires , with a genuinely worthwhile educational experience . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The heavy wooden door had been made to stand the occasional arrow from a dissatisfied Indian . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Meanwhile moves were made to tackle the other end of the equation . |
| 18 | In addition to such steps , in Canada , New South Wales and Michigan , attempts have been made to tackle the non-consent requirement itself . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | That 's why at an Official Porsche Centre , you 'll find 3,000 parts that have been specially made to fit the exact model and year of your car . |
| 21 | Tonight the MP for Oxford East said every effort should continue to be made to trace the missing pension millions . |
| 22 | An official at the tüv said an offer had now been made to help the British company meet its rules — the ones Cameron thinks it already meets . |
| 23 | The sub-committee [ see paragraph 1 ] for a considerable time proposed that the general offence of theft should be made to cover the present offence of obtaining by false pretences under [ the Larceny Act 1916 , section ] 32(1) . |
| 24 | However , the formation of unisons is not always satisfactory or possible ( for example , in Example 140 above each voice could hardly be made to play the same unison D , for contrapuntal reasons , nor could it sound completely satisfactory ) . |
| 25 | In case attempts are made to avoid the full effect of the winding-up procedure , Section 127 states : |
| 26 | Attempts are to be made to resolve the Arab-Israeli dispute , together with the Palestinian issue . |
| 27 | And , despite Korda 's avowed belief in ‘ lightness ’ , little effort seems to have been made to mute the pompous misanthropy evident in the company 's two H. G. Wells adaptations . |
| 28 | A few attempts have even been made to use the feminine form as the unmarked form in English . |
| 29 | During the first half of the century efforts were made to extend the same technique to the various kinds of animals as well as plants , so that naturalists had access to a vast body of information about the geographical distribution of living things . |
| 30 | In the music department of J.F. Kennedy School there was clear evidence of the efforts being made to disentangle the individual contribution from the group effort for the purpose of making diagnostic assessment : |