Example sentences of "being make a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you have nothing to lose — your life was being made a misery anyway . |
| 2 | A WOMAN told yesterday how her life is being made a misery by youths who know she is defenceless . |
| 3 | ‘ I guess not , ’ the gardener answered , awkward at suddenly being made a spokesman for his generation . |
| 4 | THE man whose name inspired the word ‘ dunce ’ is being made a saint . |
| 5 | Attempts by " several gentlemen " to end these customs had been of little avail for a complaint of a very similar kind was still being made a century later . |
| 6 | Belgium had been a part of France till just a year before , and many folk in this part of the province resented being made a part of the Netherlands . |
| 7 | I do n't like being made a fool of ! ’ |
| 8 | He would n't like being made a fool of , even it was largely his own fault for refusing to believe her when she told him about Dana . |
| 9 | A fortnight after being made a minister , this raconteur said that he had joined the Labour Party simply to make sure that ‘ they did nothing too silly ’ . |
| 10 | Lord Salisbury did offer the Rolls to Clarke , who declined it on the ground that it would put an end to his political career , though he added that he would accept being made a Law Lord . |
| 11 | There has been much comment by Cleese , as well as others , about how being 6ft at the age of 12 ( he 's now 6ft 5in ) , and not being made a prefect at his public school , and being the only child of older , lower middle-class parents , set for a career as a solicitor , began the problems and embarrassments that inspire his comedy . |
| 12 | I am made Deacon ; I escape by a hairsbreadth being made a priest . |
| 13 | But Souness last night stressed that James is not being made a scapegoat for Liverpool 's disastrous start , nor for the eight goals they have conceded in the last two games . |
| 14 | Author Catherine Cookson 's reaction to being made a dame was ‘ I feel just like Cinderella . ’ |
| 15 | The girl has been in a council children 's home and with foster parents since being made a ward of court . |
| 16 | It is n't every day that someone starts on the ground floor and ends up by being made a director of the firm . |
| 17 | Since becoming assistant to Monsieur Bonard , he has progressed rapidly in the business and only a week ago he told us of his hopes of being made a partner . |
| 18 | Dr. Iestyn Williams , a senior doctor with the order 's medical services , will be rewarded for more than 30 years caring for others by being made a Commander . |
| 19 | A young care-leaver 's chances of being made a housing priority vary from one in three in Scotland to one in four in a London borough or metropolitan authority , to only one in eight in the South of England . |
| 20 | It has , however , long been recognised that the court can exercise jurisdiction in personam against an individual present in England or capable of being made a party to English proceedings in cases in which Equity so requires , even where the subject matter is foreign immovable property . |
| 21 | IF THERE is one thing Joe Jackson particularly dislikes , it is being made a fuss of . |
| 22 | But despite the transitional talk of ‘ experimental knowledge ’ , Locke insists that ‘ natural philosophy is not capable of being made a science ’ . |