Example sentences of "were make [adj] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 New religious ideas and moral codes were made accessible by widescale immigration , cultural exchanges and mass communication .
2 Copies of the thesis abstract , which is an integral part of each thesis , were sent to Aslib by the universities , and such abstracts were made available on demand .
3 The North York Moors National Parks campaign Bag It , in which eyecatching biodegradable bags were made available for rubbish , was said to be an imaginative solution to the litter problem .
4 Over the next five years various publications advocating such courses were made available to industry .
5 The outlines of Freud 's later theory were made available in Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego ( 1921 ) , the first mention of the death instincts having been made in 1920 in Beyond the Pleasure Principle .
6 Mass protests ( and a refugee exodus to India and thence to Nepal ) began in August-September 1990 [ see p. 37711 ] when , in tandem with strict enforcement of the Bhutanese language , dress and Buddhist cultural code , thousands of ethnic Nepalese were made stateless by enforcement of the 1985 citizenship act , requiring them to show evidence of pre-1958 domicile in Bhutan .
7 In 1980 the government raised various benefits , including those for the sick and the unemployed , by 5 per cent less than the current rate of inflation , though the abatement was restored in 1983 when the benefits were made subject to tax .
8 Increased yields were made possible by mechanisation and the expansion of the cultivated area .
9 While these pictures articulate the vision of directors like Alfred Hitchcock , Carol Reed , Michael Powell and David Lean , or writers like Noël Coward , Graham Greene , Emeric Pressburger and Harold Pinter , the films were made possible by production contexts that encouraged these talented individuals to engage with questions that others simply skated over .
10 Outside the metropolitan areas the division of the social policy functions was more even : the counties acquired responsibility for education and social services , while the districts were made responsible for housing .
11 For instance , rats were given novel saccharin solution and 1 5 min later were given novel vinegar solution , and finally they were made ill with lithium chloride .
12 Similarly the artist Goncharova 's original gorgeously coloured designs for traditional Russian wedding costumes were made austere in keeping with Nijinska 's demands for simplicity even though Les Noces was to be danced sur les pointes .
13 At the height of the B one and B two attacks in nineteen forty four , more than two hundred thousand homes per day were made unfit for habitation .
14 ( 6 ) Where an award has been given in the absence of a party , the arbitrator shall have power on that party 's application to set the award aside and to order a fresh hearing as if the award were a judgment and the application were made pursuant to Ord 37 , r 2. ( 7 ) With the consent of the parties and at any time before giving his decision and either before or after the hearing , the arbitrator may consult any expert or call for an expert report on any matter in dispute or invite an expert to attend the hearing as assessor .
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