Example sentences of "made [prep] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The subset made from is handled in a similar manner except that an original part number is allocated . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Is it not possible that French influence can be made to be felt once more ? |
| 5 | There 's something about a pot that fires the imagination : normally they are on a human manageable scale , are often made to be handled , and have attractive and eye-catching decoration . |
| 6 | They argue that it is unnatural to break up a programme which was made to be viewed as a whole . |
| 7 | They are made to be drunk at one sitting . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Guitars are made to be played ! |
| 10 | Guitars are made to be played ! |
| 11 | Whatever the rules were , they were not necessarily made to be broken , but they were n't necessarily there to be obeyed either . |
| 12 | De Gaulle had told Ceauşescu ‘ embargoes were made to be broken ’ . |
| 13 | But traditions are made to be broken ; if this one is not , Lloyd 's may find itself in pieces instead . |
| 14 | Promises were made to be broken . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She felt like a child at the scene of an accident who knows nothing except that flesh was not made to be torn . |
| 19 | Her pieces , which are made to be used , are both decorative and functional . |