Example sentences of "was make the [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maternal deprivation was made the scapegoat for retarded development , anxiety and guilt feelings , promiscuity , instability and divorce — even for stunted growth . |
| 2 | Furthermore , while ‘ logically ’ it might appear that at least from summer 1941 only Hitler could be blamed for the extension and prolongation of the war , a sufficient platform had been constructed by years of propaganda and ideological indoctrination to buttress the transfer of the blame to Germany 's external enemies — the Bolsheviks , the Jews , the British , the Americans — or to internal incompetence , naturally stopping short of the Führer , as when Field Marshal von Brauchitsch was made the scapegoat for mistakes in strategy and provisioning on the eastern Front in the winter of 1941–2 . |
| 3 | Many observers feel 57year-old Mr Evans , of Bryn , near Wigan , was made the scapegoat for the Grand National disaster . |
| 4 | They dug it up when they was making the trench for the pipes to the new vehicle examination extension . |
| 5 | Cap Gemini Sogeti SA said yesterday that it was making the offer for the remaining 28.8% of London W-based software and computer services company Hoskyns Group Plc as it promised when it bought its majority stake from GEC Siemens Plc . |
| 6 | Er by the man who or one of the men who swept the shop and kept it clean and all the the the one of the labourers , that my job was to one of my jobs was to make the tea for the men . |