Example sentences of "be made [prep] [be] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 As long as you toe the chalk line ] Rules are made to be kept in this house , no shouting , or running upstairs , and no Language . ’
2 Guitars are made to be played !
3 Guitars are made to be played !
4 But traditions are made to be broken ; if this one is not , Lloyd 's may find itself in pieces instead .
5 Records are made to be broken and Tom Walker , although holding the record for the longest serving employee within the group , may well qualify for an industry wide record if it were possible .
6 They are made to be drunk at one sitting .
7 Her pieces , which are made to be used , are both decorative and functional .
8 Child has drawn attention to the theoretical inadequacy of leaving an understanding of the process whereby strategic decisions are made to be inferred from statistical associations between organizational characteristics .
9 Is it not possible that French influence can be made to be felt once more ?
10 De Gaulle had told Ceauşescu ‘ embargoes were made to be broken ’ .
11 Promises were made to be broken .
12 Whatever the problem , there is always a solution , so long as you are prepared to use your ingenuity , be flexible and remember that rules were made to be broken — or at least bent a little .
13 At the moment , ‘ history is made without being known ( l'histoire se fait sans se connâitre ) ’ — history constitutes , we might say today , a political unconscious .
14 They argue that it is unnatural to break up a programme which was made to be viewed as a whole .
15 I 've got nothing against keyboards , in fact I love keyboard music , but if you want to play guitar you should buy a guitar that was made to be played like a guitar .
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