Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] been made [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The girl , who looked as though she had been made in heaven out of peaches and cream , was wearing a few pieces of string arranged as a bikini , high heels , the goose-pimples , and nothing else .
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 Equitable treatments must be devised that recognize economic sacrifices ( whether they 've been made by men or women ) as well as economic achievements .
4 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 ’ .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 Make sure it has been made with ripstop nylon and has good quality spars and reinforced pockets to receive them .
9 If it has been made of lead , then I would also have suggested that it was a pommel .
10 Madam Speaker has the lord president of the council noticed the response of Mr Reynolds and to Miss Mary Harney 's question what representations has he had been made to United States over Gerry Adams ' visit .
11 This announcement had been made at a council of the ROC , but was retracted in Kiev on April 14 on the grounds that it had been made under pressure .
12 The army action was severely criticized by Joseph Kokou Koffigoh , the transitional Prime Minister , who declared that Kpodzro 's decision was invalid since it had been made under duress and had not been subject to a regular vote in the HCR .
13 She realized that she was feeling it too , frozen to the marrow in this bitter East wind which kept whipping her cloak off her shoulders as contemptuously as if it had been made of pocket-handkerchieves instead of tablecloths , her stomach hollow and aching , her head feeling light and aching a little too .
14 It had all trees on it and looked as if it had been made for picnics .
15 Margaret 's house was the same as Maura 's except it had been made into flats .
16 Afterwards , when ethylene became available on a large scale from oil refining processes — previously it had been made from alcohol — the price of the polymer dropped .
17 It had been made in Austria , I believe , of wool so densely woven as to be impervious to rain .
18 That is to say it had been made in England between the years 1700 and 1840 .
19 It had been made in Naples in the fifteenth century , presumably at the court of Beatrice 's father , for it had belonged to her and she had left it behind in the castle at Esztergom when she left Hungary in 1500 .
20 The payment would appear in your 1988 accounts , and in the Government 's accounts for 1988/89 , just as if it had been made in August .
21 you mean it 's been made in Devon
22 Although several of them had been made by Luke himself , some of the others featured the voice that had caused Folly so much unnecessary grief .
23 In the first place , by far the greater number of them have been made by people who have never heard of the doctrine that emotions and judgements are caused by bodily states …
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