Example sentences of "had be make a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British egg industry had been made a scapegoat for food poisoning by the Government . |
| 2 | Yet it is hardly likely that even if links had been made a ramshackle group of peasant armies using antiquated military techniques could have stood out for long against the Red Army . |
| 3 | It was stressed last night that Mr Trippier , once Mr Clarke 's parliamentary private secretary , was unaware that a 9 per cent ‘ final offer ’ had been made a week before his letter . |
| 4 | The importance of sugar production can be judged from a story dating from 1516 when Simon Gonçalves de Câmara , the Governor of the island , whose son had been made a bishop , sent a present to the Pope of a model of the papal palace with figures representing the whole Court and the Cardinals — all made in sugar . |
| 5 | He had lost everything and had been made a ‘ scapegoat ’ by the Government , said his solicitors . |
| 6 | This boost did much to wipe out the effect of Balfour 's referendum pledge , which had been made a month before the Reciprocity Agreement and was erroneously believed to be its cause . |
| 7 | But by the end of the 1890s , although her work had long been recognized and she had been made a founder-councillor of the London county council in 1899 , Emma Cons was approaching a breakdown caused by overwork , not only at the theatre but in all her other housing and philanthropic efforts ( she was also vice-president of the London Society for Women 's Suffrage , an executive member of the Women 's Liberal Foundations , and a founder of the Women 's Horticultural College at Swanley ) . |
| 8 | But the decision made itself , as if it had been made a long time before . |
| 9 | It was announced on Dec. 18 that former Foreign Minister Acheikh bin Oumar had been made a special councillor to Déby . |
| 10 | When the Supreme Court reconvened for its new session in October , its slim conservative majority had been made a little stronger by the retirement of liberal Justice William J. Brennan and his replacement by David H. Souter [ see pp. 37604-05 ; 37703-04 ] . |
| 11 | New Zealand 's Foreign Affairs Minister , Don McKinnon , said that he was " appalled and disgusted " to learn that the agent had been made a knight in the National Order of Merit . |
| 12 | In his book Under Fire : An American Story , published on Oct. 22 , North avowed that former President Ronald Reagan not only " knew everything " about the Iran-contra project but also " enthusiastically " backed it , and that he had been made a scapegoat by senior Reagan administration officials seeking to protect the President and themselves . |
| 13 | Ben had been made a Companion of Honour in the Coronation Honours List and the very fact that he was writing an opera for the Coronation created jealousy in some quarters . |
| 14 | Even now that she had been made a director of the firm , Laura was well aware that it did n't mean that she had a job for life . |
| 15 | ‘ It is n't every man who approves of women having ambition , ’ Ashley remarked a touch cryptically — for when she had been made a director several of her male colleagues had found it very hard to handle . |
| 16 | Her job had been made a little easier by the price-fixing agreement reached at a recent meeting for European farm ministers . |
| 17 | The Boro 's second leading scorer felt he had been made a scapegoat for the home defeat by Watford . |
| 18 | The COI also made it widely-known that the shy Blewitt had been made a Freeman of the City of London in recognition of Dunston-based DMB 's skills in tackling the restoration of the city 's Blackfriars Bridge . |
| 19 | He had been made an object of fun and a target for abuse . |
| 20 | She was a dignified octogenarian aristocrat who had been made an honorary Chief-Corporal in the Regiment since she had served with it in World War Two . |
| 21 | As it had been made an exhibit at trial they were entitled to inspect the tape in the jury room , subject to the discretion of the trial judge to prevent e.g. an unedited version containing inadmissible material from being handed over . |
| 22 | It is perhaps possible that they might fail to mention that a purely functional muftilik had been made an for Hizir Bey ; but it seems unlikely in the extreme that they should fail to mention his having held a post which , as has been suggested in the previous chapter , was already one of great prestige and which , by Taskopruzade 's time less than a century later , was certainly one of considerable power . |
| 23 | A major defence by many of those prosecuted was that the enclosures had taken place before the practice had been made an offence , and although the practice continued after this date there is good reason to believe that this was often the case . |
| 24 | ‘ She had been making a noise last season and was Hobdayed during the winter . |
| 25 | I had just returned to Los Angeles from the Aleutians where I had been making a film , and I came across Errol Flynn at a party at David O Selznick 's house . |
| 26 | Gloucester 's actions after his brother 's death are traditionally seen as the triumph of an over-mighty subject , and it follows that Edward IV had been making a rod for his own back when he allowed Gloucester to become lord of the north . |
| 27 | While we had been lording it in the Solent , Alert had been making a name for herself in Shetland as a stand in for Venturous . |
| 28 | ‘ Ben had been making a new dress for the end of Act I which he promised to bring to Shepherd 's Bush by 5.45 pm , in time for my appearance . |
| 29 | The eyes of four respectable women , bright with friendly interest , were looking eagerly towards him and somehow he found himself unable to explain that he had been making a study of extra-marital relations , detached and scientific though this had of course been . |
| 30 | Boucher had been making a habit of beating Britain 's best 10stone 7lb men in Gary Jacobs , Mickey Hughes and Kirkland Laing , and Loughran 's win must be one of the finer British achievements of the past 12 months . |