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

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1	And one man will appear in court this morning charged with wasting police time after a hoax bomb call was made to stop nine helicopters flying pleasure flights from the front at New Brighton .
2	When I had finished , I was made to wait two hours before being called back into the office for questioning .
3	While provision was made to treat first offenders leniently , other legislation was passed to ensure that ‘ habitual criminals ’ received harsher punishment .
4	In the House of Spring Gardens case , the English proceedings simply lay dormant ; no order was made staying those proceedings on the ground of lis alibi pendens .
5	Unlike Water Newton , no attempt was made to link these streets and lanes along the inner edge of the defences .
6	The importance of the machinery groups was so great that an effort was made to obtain full details of how they were organised .
7	There were very few Black or gay workers involved in it , and no attempt was made to recruit new members .
8	Ascertainment through regional cancer registries may not be complete , and so a special search of hospital and pathology department records was made to ascertain any cases of leukaemia or lymphoma in Allerdale and Copeland for 1969–83 that might not previously have been registered .
9	There was some media speculation that while the decision was made to protect foreign tourists , the government also wanted to secure the border against the infiltration of arms by Tuareg rebels [ see p. 38708 for details of Tuareg rebellion ] .
10	He was made to work long hours as a farm labourer and , like thousands of others , he was classed as ‘ Untermensch ’ ( subhuman ) by the soldiers .
11	At the beginning , a special effort was made to place orthodox children with orthodox families , or with families prepared to follow strict dietary rules , and to make generous allowance for other religious observances .

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