Example sentences of "[verb] be [vb pp] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the main causes of recurrent famine throughout Ethiopia is the problem of massive deforestation , although in the regions of Wollo , Tigray and Eritrea it has been made worse by war . |
| 2 | Many who invested in UK-based Barlow Clowes Gilt Managers and its Gibraltar sister operation , Barlow Clowes International , were elderly people whose plight has been made worse by the loss of their savings . |
| 3 | An inadequate system has been made worse by the Government 's decision that it will no longer accept responsibility for collecting maintenance unless there have been irregular payments . |
| 4 | We have not seen any patients whose physical pain has been made worse by morphine or diamorphine , nor are we aware of any good evidence that this occurs . |
| 5 | The confusion about the project has been made worse by the Government 's vacillation and indecision , and also by their lack of answers to my hon. Friends about where the finance for the project will come from . |
| 6 | This lacuna has been made worse by the ILO 's lack of jurisdiction to examine South African labour legislation since South Africa resigned from the Organisation in 1964 . |
| 7 | Some writers have argued that the problem of overload has been made worse by the centralization of government decision-making . |
| 8 | But the hard part of making the original design has been made easier by using Creation 6 . |
| 9 | The re-examination of NVOCC related rules has been made easier by the FMC regulations implementing the 1984 Shipping Act , as amended in 1990 . |
| 10 | Monitoring of large rivers has been made easier by a new device , which tells scientists where fish are lurking . |
| 11 | The result is that short field performance has been addressed , the propeller pitch has been made finer , reducing the take-off roll to some 804 feet ( hard surface ) , and cutting the cruise performance by a few knots to around 100 . |
| 12 | Like Peru , it has been made poorer by persistent misgovernment . |
| 13 | Colour micronization — means the colour pigments and other powdery ingredients in the make-up , traditionally a large and irregular size and shape , has been made smaller and more uniform for a softer product texture and more even colour application . |
| 14 | That possibility has been given greater prominence by subsequent development since T. 's mother has recently left this area and joined T. 's father in his new life in another county . |
| 15 | This categorisation could have been carried out in other ways , and other purposes seen here as secondary could have been given greater prominence . |
| 16 | Besides , she thought , if Finn came back and she found him not repellent he would have been rendered kinder by his infidelity . |
| 17 | Shotwell ( 1955 ) attempted to distinguish between bones from different sources by devising an index of completeness of preservation , by which species represented by most complete remains must have been transported shorter distances and therefore have come from communities close by , while species with less well preserved remains must have come from more distant communities . |
| 18 | Yet had the assessment panel system not existed in most cases equal amounts of time would have been occupied later but in the negative cycle of suspensions , parental interviews , referral procedures and the preparation of reports . |
| 19 | The ‘ rope ’ binding around the front and headstock is very tasty , as are the snowflake fingerboard inlays ( although they could have been installed straighter ) but I 'm not at all sure about the classical-style rosette complete with touches of green and fluorescent pink . |
| 20 | To Shorehead , Huddersfield , from Margaret Shaw who suffered temporary loss of vision during a migraine attack on a shopping trip : ‘ I could not possibly have been offered greater kindness — which went beyond mere service . ’ |
| 21 | I should have been discharged earlier but I had developed a cold and they insisted I stay until it had completely cleared up . |
| 22 | Her hair had been cut shorter than usual round her neck , accentuating the elegant curve of the nape and softening the slight masculinity of her features . |
| 23 | Thus much three-dimensional work was evident in the Art rooms a year later , homework had been given greater emphasis , a tentative start had been made to interdepartmental links with Craft and Needlecraft and the ‘ O ’ and ‘ A ’ Level courses were being revised . |
| 24 | ‘ If the prints were undated or if they had been given younger dates most experts would probably accept them as have made by Homo , ’ said Russell Tuttle from the University of Chicago who has recently analysed casts of the footprints at the invitation of Mary Leakey . |
| 25 | Clare noticed that her hair had been cropped shorter than before , so that it was almost like fur on her head . |
| 26 | This last the verderers thought the least likely course because the escape had been made nearer to the north of the depression than the south and it would therefore take a day longer to get round it on that side . |
| 27 | Of course the distillery distillery had been made bigger it er put up the population a good bit . |
| 28 | These were not new problems , though they had been made worse by the rapid growth of population , industry and cities . |
| 29 | A Dutch company in charge of the salvage operation claimed later that the problem had been made worse by the refusal of the Spanish and Moroccan authorities to allow the tanker to be towed into their ports for pumping of the remaining oil and for emergency repairs . |
| 30 | The inflationary impact had been made worse by the President acquiescing in the passing of a law in Congress ordering an unprecedented 40 per cent increase in minimum wages in the private sector . |