Example sentences of "be make [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aquifers could be used as carbon stores , if they could be made gas-tight . |
| 2 | Of course paying for childcare could be used against women — the most obvious danger being that it could be made selective ( on class or race lines ) or conditional upon certain standards of maternal behaviour — but there are risks in any advance . |
| 3 | The analysis of Section 7.3.1 has shown that if the torque producing capability of the stepping motor is to be maximised over the full speed range the switching angle must be made speed-dependent . |
| 4 | A good mind and a warm heart can be made impotent if there is no commitment . |
| 5 | In other words , managers ' salaries have to be made incentive-compatible , so that the penalty for sending a false ‘ good ’ signal is always greater than the penalty for sending a true ‘ bad ’ signal . |
| 6 | History is the process by which the liberation which Christ proclaimed will be made effective for the whole world . |
| 7 | In the conduct of fiscal policy the government has to receive Parliamentary approval before proposed changes in taxation or public expenditure can be made effective , and obviously the planning of a Budget and its acceptance by Parliament is a time-consuming process . |
| 8 | And on the other side , subordinate groups have no other recourse than armed revolt if they are deprived of other means of exercising political rights ; or they may find themselves in a situation where their formal rights can only be made effective in practice by the use or threat of violence . |
| 9 | The letter continues : ’ and details will be announced in late January of changes to be made effective from 15 March 1992 . ’ |
| 10 | It needs to be stressed that British planning legislation does not assume that existing non-conforming uses must disappear if planning policy is to be made effective . |
| 11 | In other words , how is political control to be made effective ? |
| 12 | It was Christmas 1781 when news filtered through that they were celebrating at the Red Lion at Bishopsgate ( an inn later to be made famous by Dickens 's Old Curiosity Shop ) . |
| 13 | Security arrangements for the opening of mail etc have to be made watertight . |
| 14 | Co-operation and harmony should therefore be made worthwhile from your children 's point of view . |
| 15 | Many feel political participation must be made worthwhile before active citizenship can occur . |
| 16 | Since reform was now unavoidable it must be made certain that Ireland would be included under the redistribution clauses and that the House of Lords should be restored to entrench resistance to Labour . |
| 17 | Where the difficulty is one of applying the provision rather than a conceptual uncertainty the court will not hold it to be void ( Brown v Gould ) ; and a provision in a lease will not be uncertain if it can be made certain . |
| 18 | If the draftsman wishes to create a lease for a period that can not be made certain at the time of the demise the only way is to express it as being granted for a fixed term subject to a power to break at the expiry of the period . |
| 19 | And perhaps their foolishness will make everyone understand that however much fun Home Alone is for children at the cinema it is fiction and can not be made real by acting it out . |
| 20 | Robert Lord 's basic story-line provided a marvellous portrait of an ordinary worker and a very telling ‘ explanation of the roots of political prejudice ’ but these details had to be made real on film . |
| 21 | The freedom to learn can not be an empty slogan but must be made real for every student on every course of study of higher education . |
| 22 | Er if for no other reason than er if the compensation scheme was to be made retrospective to include the victims of the Maxwell fraud , it would at least erm restore some public confidence in the in the pensions industry . |
| 23 | It could not survive for long , and the Council would soon have to be made accountable to the European Parliament in some form or another . |
| 24 | So it is not only the visible and active exercise of power that needs to be equalized , but also the possession of power , which , where it can not be redistributed , must at least be made accountable within the framework of democracy . |
| 25 | Workers and trade unions could be encouraged to insist that the management of their massive savings should be made accountable to them , and should be directed towards employment-creating , socially useful investment . |
| 26 | In effect what applied linguistics does is to enquire into cross-cultural accommodation : it transfers ideas and methods from different disciplinary cultures and seeks to demonstrate how they can be made coherent and effective in the different conditions of pedagogic practice . |
| 27 | Most of the work is composed in six-line tail-rhyme stanzas , rhyming A A B C C B. There are usually two main stresses within the line of at least six syllables which may also be made coherent by the use of alliteration , internal rhyme and assonance , as , for instance , in the first stanza : ( As I travelled along a path I heard the tale of one , a spirited man , and proud ; he was wise in learning and splendid under his clothes , and clothed in fine array . ) |
| 28 | Arguments against allowing access included that people would not write frankly if they knew their comments would be seen , it could be important to record facts which could not be proved and suspicions or impressions , the child or parent might be made unhappy by a teacher 's judgement and it might impair the relationship or discourage the child , and access would lead to constant arguments about fairness or relevance of information . |
| 29 | By 23 votes to six , the Academy decided that the changes in spelling rules — proposed by a working party of the government-appointed Conseil Supérieur de la Langue Française under the chairmanship of the Academy 's own permanent secretary — should not be enforced in any way ( not even through school circulars or inclusion in new dictionaries ) , but should be made subject to the ‘ test of time ’ . |
| 30 | However , even the exercise of this right may , by the declaration of the Contacting State in which the evidence is to be taken , be made subject to the permission of the appropriate authority designated by that State . |