Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [verb] [be] make " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the very minimum they must have been made on the basis of a police guarantee that matters would be manipulated so that courts would not impose additional punishment for the illusory offences . |
| 2 | The most obvious case is when a hoard includes both coins and other objects ; indeed it is only in these cases that the objects in question can be accurately dated ( or rather the date by which they must have been made can be accurately established ) . |
| 3 | These tortoise holes are often so long — up to forty feet — that judging from the tortoise 's slow rate of excavation they must have been made by several generations and are probably several centuries old . |
| 4 | For indeed they are not , and it is understandable that they should have been made . |
| 5 | ‘ By rights they should have been made on Stir-up Sunday , only I was too busy . |
| 6 | They were so still that they might have been made of granite . |
| 7 | They might have been made of stone . |
| 8 | One of their colleagues had vanished in mysterious circumstances and all they could do was make up imaginary England cricket teams . |
| 9 | They could have been made by the same craftsman . |
| 10 | He could tell nothing from their faces ; they could have been made of stone . |
| 11 | If he showed them the latest Washington telegram which he had seen before his departure [ KPs 66 and 85 ] , they would have been made aware that although they had to exercise the utmost restraint for the time being , a new and firmer policy might soon be adopted . |