Example sentences of "made [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I pierced the mask of the temporal that is a facade made hideous by the graffiti of desires and I saw behind it the real of human beings , that is , a masterpiece on the wheel of Eternity . |
| 2 | They were certainly made hideous by the way their fossilized bones , complete with jutting frills , were reassembled in museums . |
| 3 | Craiova was made hideous by a huge petrochemical works , but after that the road was flanked by beautiful scenery . |
| 4 | Made reserve debut three days aftr his 17th birthday and after a substitute appearance at Wimbledon started the Premier League game against the scum in February . |
| 5 | He mentioned oil , chemicals , engineering and electrical engineering , all of which had made solid progress . |
| 6 | Since women do not see housework as a coherent , meaningful structure of tasks demanding their full attention , they are not made dissatisfied by its fragmented nature . |
| 7 | Yet , writing half a century later , Sir John Fortescue recognised that Henry V had been right : ‘ though we have not alwey werre uppon the see , yet it shalbe nescessarie that the kynge [ Edward IV ] have alway some ffloute apon the see , ffor the repressynge off rovers , savynge off owre marchauntes , owre ffishers , and the dwellers uppon owre costes ; and that the kynge kepe alway some grete and myghty vessels , ffor the brekynge off an armye when any shall be made ayen hym apon the see ; ffor thanne it shall be to late to do make such vessailles ’ . |
| 8 | The commission has sponsored the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology ( ITE ) at Banchory , near Aberdeen , to examine how modern forests can be made capercaillie-friendly . |
| 9 | His huge investment has been made despite poor prize-money and high overheads which have made private trainers almost extinct . |
| 10 | In 1976 he was made private secretary to Cardinal Hume and in 1982 he was made a Vicar General of the Archdiocese with special responsibility for priests . |
| 11 | However , they have 2 great advantages over subroutines : you can refer to them by name and the variables used within them can be made private to the procedure or function . |
| 12 | Form is made perceptible against a background of existing literary form , and the function of a device is determined not just by the structural hierarchy of a particular work , but by its place in the literary system as a whole . |
| 13 | ‘ I can see that you 've been made upset . |
| 14 | ‘ If we had made political statements , Asterix would be too French . |
| 15 | Ernesto Cardenal , the Nicaraguan minister of culture , also made political use of birdsong and jungle in his poems ; it brought out the symbiosis between the land and the cause . |
| 16 | It would n't have made political sense in that how the , they were deliberately choosing cautious policy which would enable them to stay in power . |
| 17 | An adequate thought is an achievement made possible through the co-operation of the whole cognitive system : it 's not a well-formed encoding of something else . |
| 18 | The identity of the two activities is asserted , with a succinctness that only the build-up has made possible , in ‘ flowered acanthus ’ ( acanthus , a classical motif of architectural sculpture , is also the stylized representation of specific foliage ) , and also in ‘ Can you tell the down from the up ? ’ ( for there is no way of deciding whether ‘ nature ’ is the ‘ up ’ and ‘ art ’ the ‘ down ’ , or vice-versa ) . |
| 19 | The task force was only made possible by cobbling together the remnants of the battle fleet , including the two last aircraft-carriers , Invincible and Hermes . |
| 20 | Modernisation and repair of rural cottages were also made possible by grants . |
| 21 | Ministers of Health would have incurred little or no extra criticism if they had failed to provide the services which the £25 million yielded by the prescription charges have made possible ; what criticism there was , would have been diffused over a hundred objects and none of it would have made a distinct impression on the mind of the electorate . |
| 22 | His 1923 review of Ulysses ends by stating that a combination of psychology , ethnology , and Frazer 's Golden Bough has made possible a new method of artistic construction . |
| 23 | Further , such displacements of non-sexual fears on to the sexual deviant , be he or she actual , imagined , or constituted in and by the displacement , are made possible because other kinds of transgression — political , religious — are not only loosely associated with the sexual deviant , but ‘ condensed ’ in the very definition of deviance . |
| 24 | And such displacement and contamination are made possible by that radical interconnectedness between the two which the lower knows and the higher disavows . |
| 25 | Further , homosexuality in part made possible ‘ that exercise in solipsism , that remorseless mockery of philistine common sense and bourgeois realism which is modern art ’ ( ‘ Eros and Idiom ’ , 115 , 117 , 118 ) . |
| 26 | Many converters of churches which incorporate this arrangement have naturally regarded this space as a zone in which living-rooms might be accommodated , and the beneficial use of such roof space has largely been made possible by the widespread employment of standard reversible ventilating and double-glazed roof windows . |
| 27 | Although the flats are very compact , generally following the standards laid down for this type of housing in DoE Design Bulletin 29 , they share the facilities of a jetty on to the river , and a roof-top conservatory and roof garden , all of which were made possible by a £200,000 grant from the Historic Buildings Council . |
| 28 | While these pictures articulate the vision of directors like Alfred Hitchcock , Carol Reed , Michael Powell and David Lean , or writers like Noël Coward , Graham Greene , Emeric Pressburger and Harold Pinter , the films were made possible by production contexts that encouraged these talented individuals to engage with questions that others simply skated over . |
| 29 | The message of The First of the Few ( 1942 , Spitfire in the US ) , a biopic of the life of R. J. Mitchell , is that the Spitfire was made possible by one man taking on short-sighted business executives and parsimonious government authorities . |
| 30 | The film was a big success , partly because of its openness about sex ( made possible by the appointment of John Trevelyan to head up the BBFC ) , but also because the hero 's class resentment brought to the surface emotions that British cinema normally repressed . |