Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] been make [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she knew that if she had been made welcome from the start , she would still want to be with them , in spite of this comparative luxury . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Reasonably enough , there were those on the list who were angry because they had been made liable to investigation by the tax authorities . |
| 4 | It had been made possible by the officers of the Vezarat-e Ettelaat Va Amniyat-e Kishvar , the Ministry of Intelligence and Internal Security , who kept detailed files on all Iranian exiles throughout the world , whether or not they supported the new Islamic order . |
| 5 | Indeed , it had been made possible by the deliberate ambiguity of his pronouncements . |
| 6 | Is the Leader of the House aware that the seventh report of the Public Accounts Committee on the privatisation of Harland and Wolff was not available to Members in the House until late yesterday evening and that it had been made available to others some time previously ? |
| 7 | As early as 1488–89 , an Act dealing with the Isle of Wight declared that it had been made desolate by being turned into pasture , and that it could not long be defended from the King 's enemies . |
| 8 | Later , legs and a handle were added to convert the vessel into a sauce-boat , perhaps long after it had been made obsolete as a feeding vessel by the introduction of the first feeding bottles . |
| 9 | In England in 1226 it had been made clear to the king that he could not tax the clergy diocese by diocese ; such an attempt in that year had been frustrated by the request of the Salisbury cathedral chapter for consultation with the clergy of other sees ; the proctors of the cathedral and collegiate clergy subsequently attended a provincial council armed with instructions from their ‘ constituents ’ . |
| 10 | It had been made clear in the last few days , he said , with low-paid workers in North Ayrshire having their wages cut to join a trust while senior managers at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh awarded themselves BMW cars . |
| 11 | Prime Minister Guy Razanamasy on July 30 said that he had been made aware of the imminent attempt the day before it took place and that a " foreign power " was responsible . |