Example sentences of "be made [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know that a lot of people think I am made of steel . |
| 2 | His head was full of sentences he was going to write to Hilary when he had the time to put pen to paper : I may remind you that I never asked you for a penny towards the summer gas bill … do you think I am made of stone ? … surely I deserve better consideration … who listened for hours when you had that disagreement at Bromley over Fortescue upstaging you in She Stoops to Conquer … have you forgotten that it was I , when your mother had her second stroke , who travelled with her in the ambulance and went back on the bus to collect her plaster replica of the Sacred Heart ? |
| 3 | At the beginning of one of his books I discovered these words , which to me in my lowly condition were more than words : ‘ I am made unlike anyone I have ever met ; I will even venture to say that I am like no one in the whole world . ’ |
| 4 | Is the fault in her or in me , because I am strangely made , because , as Rousseau said , ‘ I am made unlike anyone I ever met ’ ? |
| 5 | Significant progress has been made over the years , including the development of microwave FELs in the US at the Naval Research Laboratory , Columbia University , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , and the Lawrence Livermore laboratory , the infrared-visible FELs built at Los Alamos , Stanford and Santa Barbara and the storage ring at Orsay , Paris . |
| 6 | A few months later , Harry Goodman responded with a full frontal attack , claiming that 9000 children in the care of the RCM had ‘ practically no Jewish contacts and that no effort had been made over a period of years to give these children some religious education ’ . |
| 7 | There have been a number of studies of poverty in the UK that have been made over the past twenty-five years that have consistently indicated that a substantial minority of people may experience serious relative deprivation . |
| 8 | Despite the many improvements that have been made over the years , the poor pay of the farm worker therefore continues to reflect the very many constraints which surround his choice of occupation and employer in many rural areas . |
| 9 | It was clearly old , and several additions had obviously been made over the years , although they all blended together easily and harmoniously . |
| 10 | ‘ One telephone call which could easily have been faked from any phone box , a letter which no one outside the family has seen , and a pay-off which will supposedly take place once arrangements have been made over a telephone number they refuse to disclose . |
| 11 | No decision has been made over a youth coach , a position Hankin held before his sudden promotion to the manager 's office . |
| 12 | Sources close to the meeting of G7 senior government ministers , who had invited the deputy prime minister , Boris Fyodorov , as a last-minute guest , said they had laid the groundwork for fresh aid but no promises had been made over cash . |
| 13 | The process was never completed owing to a lack of consensus in a number of important areas and only a few piecemeal changes have been made over the years , most recently the creation of Schools in 1989 . |
| 14 | Peace had been made between the British , French , Spanish and Colonial Governments . |
| 15 | ‘ The jump has been made between the scientific debate about passive smoking and the law , ’ says Peter Cashman , solicitor for the Australian Federation of Consumer Organisations ( AFCO ) . |
| 16 | Because of the high incidence of salmonella enteriditis , a strain which resides in chickens , a link has been made between poultry farming methods and food poisoning . |
| 17 | A few weeks later , when the link had been made between Willi and his mother , who lived in Rochdale , the Movement collected money for the rest of his journey . |
| 18 | Links , for example , have been made between a past history of sexual abuse and bulimia . |
| 19 | Previously no distinction had been made between acquittals , cases which were dismissed because there was no evidence that the accused had committed the crime , and cases dismissed because no crime had been committed . |
| 20 | However , despite my aim to provide flexibility in structure , the HyperCard still imposes a primary organizational structure and it may be difficult to extract information that has no relation to the original structure imposed by the author Nevertheless , some links have been made between tutorials which cut across the primary categorization and users are able to move between different sections as easily as moving within sections . |
| 21 | It 's not the first time that a link has been made between erupting volcanoes and the weather . |
| 22 | More distinction might have been made between Largo and Grave , perhaps , since both occur in the Concerti da chiesa ( Nos. 1–8 ) . |
| 23 | The object of this book is to offer some insight into the connections that have been made between statements about nature and statements about God . |
| 24 | No ‘ arrangements ’ had been made between the governors and the local education authority in respect of admissions to the school ‘ for preserving the character of the school ’ within the meaning of section 6(3) ( b ) and ( 6 ) . |
| 25 | But , as is common ground , no arrangements as to admissions policy for preserving the character of the school had been made between the governors and the local education authority in accordance with section 6(6) . |
| 26 | Mabbott 's reputation as a Leveller , which rests solely on the association which has been made between him and the radical newsbook , the Moderate , has been called into question . |
| 27 | If he was he would be bound by a pre-existing collective agreement that had been made between the union and North Star Yachts Ltd . |
| 28 | But although the distinction between reformist and revolutionary parties may thus become somewhat blurred — and the sharpness of the distinction is further diminished by the difficulty of determining precisely what is to count as a fundamental change in a social system — it remains an important one , compared with which many other distinctions that have been made between parties , and between party systems , seem less significant . |
| 29 | An encouraging agreement has been made between the Lithuanian Government and Poland on the ethnic Poles in Lithuania , which we support . |
| 30 | In contrast , in France links have been made between researchers in different disciplines , the work has been more highly developed theoretically and a major critical review of the state of research has been conducted . |