The phrase "are made familiar" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing how someone or something becomes known or recognized to others.
Example: "Through various workshops and presentations, the concepts are made familiar to the participants."
Alternatives: "are introduced" or "are acquainted".
We are made familiar with emotional possibilities, and, through this imaginative exercise, our responses to the world become illuminated and refined.
"The two most engaging powers of an author: new things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new," wrote Samuel Johnson – powers that Michel Faber exhibits in abundance in his astonishing novel, now published in a beautifully designed paperback edition.
Harry's partner mentions that this place has been made familiar by movies, but this is an understatement.
He said it's the business model that, despite being made familiar to people on the ground, remains unusual in the sky.
That is, if achieving success is even a concept with which they have been made familiar after years of social promotion.
It served as the headquarters for the Metropolitan police from 1829 to 1890 and was made familiar to millions via the novels of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Hall noted that James's course was, "up to the present time the only course in the country where students can be made familiar with the methods and results of recent German researches in physiological psychology" (Hall, 1879).
In recent days he has been made familiar with a small fraction of the contents of three sets of interviews, but he knows nothing about the contents of the rest of the archive.
(In that (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBerjyUfVpA), filmed in 2008, Muro plays a track by a South African rock band that was made familiar this year when Q-Tip sampled it for a song on "Watch The Throne").
