Example sentences of "[been] make [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British egg industry had been made a scapegoat for food poisoning by the Government . |
| 2 | I do so because I believe she has been made a scapegoat for what happened . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ No , the wall has been made a permanent fixture , I 'm afraid . ’ |
| 6 | John Fisher , a Cambridge man , is the only head of a college at either university to have been made a saint . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , they did not forget the main object of their expedition and kept a careful record of all the plants found , though they commented that had the journey been made a month or two sooner , they would have found a greater number of rarities . |
| 8 | Getting into your loft quickly and safely has been made a lot easier with the unique collection of aluminium and wooden ladders and staircases available from the Loft Shop . |
| 9 | Eden was so angry at having been made a fool of that the Director General of MI6 , Sir John ‘ Sinbad ’ Sinclair , was obliged to retire prematurely and was replaced by the head of MI5 , Sir Dick White . |
| 10 | I am to be dominated by the truth because I have been made a Christian by the operation of the Holy Spirit within . |
| 11 | In many ways this was a sensible policy since even if Danzig had not been made a Free City and had remained within the long arm of Prussia , the local economy was too poor to maintain it for long ; a German Danzig would still have been forced to rely upon a distant Vistula hinterland . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | His creator James Driscoll has just returned to Britain after signing a £20 million deal to create the 40-acre fun park in Samara , 600 miles east of Moscow — where Digswell has been made a Freeman of the City . |
| 14 | He had lost everything and had been made a ‘ scapegoat ’ by the Government , said his solicitors . |
| 15 | The lives of countless millions of people have been made a misery through the conflicts arising from prejudice . |
| 16 | It 's been made a Site of Special Scientific Interest because of its strength as a habitat for a wide range of grasses and rare plants . |
| 17 | The base has been made a free port and special economic zone . |
| 18 | But most certainly the road to the latter , with its decadence and exploitation , has been made a great deal smoother , shorter and more popular by the compromise and self-interest of the clerics and assorted fellow travellers of the so-called ‘ new morality ’ school . |
| 19 | Butterworth was ‘ on the skids ’ , having been made a scapegoat by Acheson for the bankruptcy of American policy in China ; Butterworth would shortly be posted abroad , which was correct as he soon afterwards departed to be American minister in Stockholm . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | However , it has , in the past , been made a legal offence to rely on customer inertia ; notably in unsolicited postal selling . |
| 22 | I 'd been made a lance-corporal just before we left and had been put in charge of a group of boys . |
| 23 | One thousand babies later , in April 1919 , Edith Pye departed , one of very few women to have been made a chévalier of the Legion of Honour . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | Trade sanctions have been threatened and copyright has been made a high-profile issue in international negotiations . |
| 26 | But the decision made itself , as if it had been made a long time before . |
| 27 | Well it was a town then but since then it 's been made a city , you see , and I got to know all kinds of people and one gentleman came in there , used to come every evening and write a book and er , I used to look after him if I happened to be that end and er , you see , and then he 'd say , oh just an exchange you know about the weather and just in general thing and then I 'd leave him and he 'd get on with his writing and one day he said to me . |
| 28 | SEGA brought Night Trap before the Board voluntarily , but had it not done so the game would have been made a test case . |
| 29 | It was announced on Dec. 18 that former Foreign Minister Acheikh bin Oumar had been made a special councillor to Déby . |
| 30 | 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 ] . |