Example sentences of "they [verb] be made " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the adaptations they make are made on several different levels erm they might become more alike in their language , in their pronunciation , their rate of speech , their pause or utterance length and their vocal intensities . ? |
| 2 | That last bomb had taken out those houses as if it had come with a great grasping fist and scooped them up and crunched them into rubble as easily as if they 'd been made of matchsticks . |
| 3 | Some of them very negative , and how much they hated doing what they 'd been made to do er , and others very surprisingly made it known that they had thoroughly enjoyed it . |
| 4 | But they had n't been made at Fords , they 'd been made in a subsidiary , taken up the road on long trailers , taken off the trailer onto the assembly conveyor , which er crawls round the assembly line and fitted like that . |
| 5 | They felt they 'd been made fools of … and the ring is some sort of family heirloom and his father went on as if it was all Rick 's fault that Angy had made off with it . ’ |
| 6 | Now they import flax , mainly from Scandinavia , and much of the cloth they weave is made from mixtures of flax or cotton and artificial fibres such as nylon , Terylene and Acrilan . |
| 7 | These musicians are fascinated by how the music they play is made . |
| 8 | Equitable treatments must be devised that recognize economic sacrifices ( whether they 've been made by men or women ) as well as economic achievements . |
| 9 | They 've been made for more recent Carnivals . |
| 10 | That as they 've been made redundant , as they 've been victimized for trade union activity possibly , we then as a union decide that they can not stand for office ? |
| 11 | One in six patients in hospital in Britain are there because they 've been made ill by doctors . |
| 12 | Perhaps they 've been made redundant . |
| 13 | I find it difficult to understand how they are going to carry on experimental work at other depots that are n't really equipped to carry out experimental work , and so for that reason , I mean , there 's a great deal of concern that these cuts are n't rather more cosmetic that they 've been made out to be . |
| 14 | Mind , not everybody 's got the money to erm pay for jobs have they , today , if they 've been made redundant they have n't got the money . |
| 15 | This new use meant a severe criticism of the earlier knowledge , since Marx believed that the studies he was using had originally been made for exactly the opposite purpose to his ; they had been made in order to justify the oppression which Marx say as the core of the capitalist system . |
| 16 | But no steps were to be taken to put them into effect until they had been communicated to the king , who , when he had satisfied himself that they had been made without prejudice , would decide what was to be done . |
| 17 | Mair interviewed a clutch of former BR executives who claimed they had been made redundant for pressing their inquiries too closely , and the understandably defensive chairman of British Rail 's Parcels Board , Gordon Pettitt , who admitted that things had gone wrong but could n't see what all the fuss was about . |
| 18 | But the number joining the register because they had been made jobless dropped 25,700 to 352,400 . |
| 19 | Angelo Heilprin , an American geologist who visited the scene a few weeks later and wrote a book about the tragedy , described ‘ twisted bars of iron , great masses of roof sheeting wrapped like cloth about posts upon which they had been flung , and iron girders looped and festooned as if they had been made of rope ’ . |
| 20 | They had been made for Maria by a Polish émigré , Floryan Wyspianski , a man in his early thirties , who had settled in Budapest after the war . |
| 21 | The answer is probably that workers come a lot cheaper in China , but the money they have saved that way could surely have been doubled in extra sales — not to mention saving on shipping costs — if they had been made in a British factory . |
| 22 | Reasonably enough , there were those on the list who were angry because they had been made liable to investigation by the tax authorities . |
| 23 | The eagle stared back at him proudly and without fear and Mr Wolski wondered how long he would be here in captivity , staring out at the same things year after year , his great wings never feeling the power and support of the wind , his talons never arcing forward and down as they did what they had been made for and struck at prey . |
| 24 | The drawing-room was full of rugs that looked upsettingly as if they had been made from earlier Afghans . |
| 25 | They had been made redundant involuntarily and had worked full-time in the factory in low-paid , unskilled manual jobs on the shopfloor . |
| 26 | Critics also argue that , because statements made under the lobby rules mean that they can not be directly attributed to Mr Ingham , his colleagues or Government Ministers , they are less credible than if they had been made on the record . |
| 27 | These were not new problems , though they had been made worse by the rapid growth of population , industry and cities . |
| 28 | Yet they were now learning to kiss as if they had been made for one another , she thought in panic . |
| 29 | On all the occasions they have been made before , they have been unconditional . |
| 30 | problems in the development of language and communication , including poor comprehension ; inability to express speech or no speech ; inability to understand non-verbal gestures , and a tendency to repeat or ‘ echo ’ the remarks of others , often long after they have been made . |