Example sentences of "[verb] [be] make a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I mean it could 've been made a bit bigger than that could n't it , for the seat |
| 2 | In nineteen eighty six treat people as if their labour is worth nothing you know those men have given their lives to the quarry industry and there 's no doubt that there is money to be made from slate at the moment and people are people that have the money to invest are making a lot of money okay they 're inves they 're risking the money but er people are risking their lives as well and giving their lives . |
| 3 | John Thaw , star of Central Television 's Inspector Morse has been made a CBE in the new years honours list . |
| 4 | Sue Thomas feels the law in this case has been made a fool of |
| 5 | East Cleveland academic Dr Mike Featherstone , 45 , of Marske Lane , Skelton , has been made a professor by Teesside Polytechnic on the eve of its elevation to university status . |
| 6 | I do so because I believe she has been made a scapegoat for what happened . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 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 | The Chairman , on behalf of the members , has asked me to express their appreciation of your excellent presentation and to state how difficult it has been to make a choice from outstanding candidates . |
| 10 | It is set in Peru where the stunt man has been making a movie . |
| 11 | Government grants , which have supported the production of plonk that drains straight into the EC wine lake , are being systematically cut , and the only way these guys will survive is to make a product the public wants . |
| 12 | I 'd been made a lance-corporal just before we left and had been put in charge of a group of boys . |
| 13 | He 'd been making a living , that was all , and now he was going to swing for it because the fucking book would n't fucking burn ! |
| 14 | Or what I might do is make a couple of these up but fill them out a bit more . |
| 15 | When push came to shove , all he 'd really done was make a pass at her — it was n't the first she 'd had to deal with , and probably would n't be the last . |
| 16 | All she 'd done was to make a bit of polite conversation ! |
| 17 | All he 'd done was to make a picture of someone in his head and worm his way inside it . |
| 18 | I do n't like being made a fool of ! ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ The cost is killing us , and what we are trying to do is make a proportion of business profitable once more . |
| 21 | If there 's erm For instance I 've had a situation where on a medical practice booklet because we er hand back a hundred pound for every full page that we we gain in the medical practice booklet , er it 's an encouragement for if we 're just a quarter of a half page short , er for the practice to say you know we 'll get for another hundred quid we 'd all we need to do is make a couple of phone calls and threaten erm one or two of our patients . |
| 22 | But the last thing she wanted to do was make a scene . |
| 23 | SEGA brought Night Trap before the Board voluntarily , but had it not done so the game would have been made a test case . |
| 24 | If Piggy had not told Ralph his nickname in the beginning he would not have been made a ridicule of before the vote . |
| 25 | Had the defendant been aware , it is submitted , he would have had no defence , since he would then have been making a mistake as to whether or not the policeman was justified in seeking to restrain him , and whether he was therefore acting in the execution of his duty . |
| 26 | I 'd have been making a living for myself as well ! ’ |
| 27 | Much more of that and we 'd have been making a block transfer to the Betty Ford clinic . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | His relief at not having been made a fool of was matched by his curiosity to find out who the devil he was , this man Iying chest down on the wet flagstones , face turned to one side as though asleep . |
| 30 | 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 . |