Example sentences of "[be] make [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Three freemen : Three long-serving Middlesbrough councillors have been made freemen of the borough in a special ceremony at the town hall .
2 They felt they 'd been made fools of … and the ring is some sort of family heirloom and his father went on as if it was all Rick 's fault that Angy had made off with it . ’
3 The shows may have been made aeons ago , but endless reruns have ensured kitsch classic status for information obsessives .
4 Tolerance and openness have been made excuses for much which is in fact lubricious ( and usually commercial ) exploitation of them .
5 Because we have been made children of God ; we carry the family likeness through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit ; we want to live so as to please our Heavenly Father ; and we enjoy his Fatherly protection and generous provision .
6 Decisions are made decisions are made erm there that we and we have to live with the consequences of them .
7 Asked to take normally from 2 to 4 modules ( depending on their existing qualifications ) they apply through PCAS and are made offers conditional on their performance as associates .
8 I think the BBC has a system of promotion which is rather like the way in which people are made prefects at school .
9 Yeah they are made pets .
10 Find-spots rather favour the arrangement in fig. 124 , but the characterisation seems to fit better if they are made partners of the other men .
11 Come , Neighbours , let me tell you , and in troth I have spoke like a man in my daies , and hit right too , that if this business do but displease his Graces fancy , we are made men for ever .
12 They 're making threats .
13 You 're making threats . ’
14 ‘ You 're making things seriously easy for us , ’ he told a raging Perdita as he cantered back .
15 I said , you know they 're making things expensive for people .
16 If you , if you can cool down you 're essentially taking away all that erm extra energy , you 're making things less random , in fact one way to look at low temperature physics is , is to think that we 're always striving after the ideal , we 're trying to make things more and more perfect .
17 catalogue with Yeah , those three games are making they 're making games they 're saying about the twelve-hundred Renegade
18 Yeah , so you 'd be if you 're making records you 'd better made it count early on .
19 Look what it 's like when we 're making deliveries .
20 got lots of them in , have you ? , you 've got a piece stuck to you , you look as if you 're making confetti tiny bits of paper
21 I hope they 're making friends .
22 Erm they are going into the villages , they 're making contacts with individual peasants erm it 's those peasants that , that they get to stand up and make the first accusations , it 's those peasants who join the Party erm and the process can build up in , in a way which was more difficult before then .
23 I think they 're probably making educated guesses are n't they whereas we 're making stabs in the dark .
24 We see this underfunding of eventide care as limiting the choice available to people who have come to that point in their lives when they 're making decisions about the sort of care that they will next require .
25 No I do n't know when they 're making decisions , the deadline for them being in was the end of the financial year ,
26 I mean , I 've worked with the County Council but not on the same sort of budgets as the district councils so they 're making decisions that are affecting the districts that they have n't got any means of
27 You 're making noises are n't you ?
28 The next , you 're making speeches to the wind .
29 Elsewhere Salim separates himself from the doers and makers of the big world beyond him , of whom it is said : ‘ They 're making cars that will run on water . ’
30 You you 're chance will come in due course sir when we 're making comments but at the moment it 's just
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