Example sentences of "was made [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like all good Home Guarders a great deal of effort was made to arrive at the Five Bells , our unofficial H.Q. which was then being run by Mrs Friar , her husband Bill being away on service with the Navy , and a common joke of the day was " If the Jerries landed the Five Bells would be defended to the last half pint " . |
| 2 | He felt the depression of the seat cushions above him as Simon Cormack was made to lie along the back seat . |
| 3 | I have also heard it argued that the term Weizenbier offers a better guarantee that the beer was made according to the convention that specifies a minimum of 50 per cent wheat . |
| 4 | The tea was made according to the instruction given by the Tea Council in London — brewing the tea bag for three minutes then squeezing it . |
| 5 | The histologic diagnosis of chronic hepatitis was made according to the standard criteria . |
| 6 | A reply was then received from Mr Quarry but the proposed ground rent of £15 a year was considered too high and another effort was made to get from the Baroness von Steiglitz some ground at the corner of what is now Carrickblacker Avenue and in the same field where the existing Tabernacle stood . |
| 7 | Compare them with our comprehensive schools , where an official attempt was made to trample upon the diversity of the British people . |
| 8 | After considering updating the old parish church the decision was made to provide for the needs of the 21st century , building a church large enough for both the old St Peter & St Paul church and St George 's , Kettlethorpe . |
| 9 | Catherine received presents , and could continue her lessons , but Heathcliff was made to work on the farm with the men , and , as a farm worker , was only allowed to eat with us in the back-kitchen . |
| 10 | Her grandmother made the illegitimate girl into a Cinderella : ‘ I was made to work in the house … a house slave . ’ |
| 11 | As soldiers they wear the uniform given to them and which was made known to the enemy . ’ |
| 12 | The Securitate was also anxious to make sure that any suffering on the part of a non-conformist at home was made known to the dissident 's contacts in the West . |
| 13 | It never was made known to the brothers . |
| 14 | One of the most important of these ‘ eruptions ’ occurred in the latter decades of the nineteenth and early decades of the present century when the fabulous wealth of plants in the Chinese hinterland was made known to the West by French missionaries and British and European hunters . |
| 15 | But at least as far as the church is concerned , a conservative believes that what place a woman should hold was made known in the past and stands for all time . |
| 16 | During the 1979 Parliament a very limited attempt was made to add to the flexibility of the committee stage . |
| 17 | For the fifth time this year , he was made to struggle in the final round after being in a seemingly impregnable position . |
| 18 | In Stone v. Taffe ( above ) a 50 per cent reduction was made owing to the claimant 's contributory negligence . |
| 19 | For the briefest and most uncomfortable moment , he was made to think of the father he 'd left behind in the North of England , a man just widowed and with a stepson whom he disliked intensely . |