Example sentences of "made of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The needles are usually made of stainless steel ( the first needles were of stone , then bone and bamboo ! ) and are so fine that you should n't feel pain . |
| 2 | The filaments are firmly set in epoxy resin to ensure minimal loss , and the ferrule is made of stainless steel , so it will not rust or discolour , providing a hard-wearing , quality paintbrush . |
| 3 | Their shoulders shake , hinging up and down on well-oiled ball-and-socket joints made of stainless steel . |
| 4 | Mrs Handy walked barefoot across the floor to turn on the water tap at the kitchen sink which was made of stainless teel . |
| 5 | The weapons are expensive partly because they are made of expensive components , but also because they are time-consuming to develop . |
| 6 | It was made of expensive brown leather , but it was n't fat , it was thin . |
| 7 | However , I am grateful to the hon. Lady for welcoming the announcement that we have made of increased resources for Holy Loch , following the withdrawal of the American navy . |
| 8 | Consider this passage about a sow : ‘ her combination of gross whiskery nakedness and riotous carnality is seized by the mythic imagination as a sort of uterus on the loose — upholstered with breasts , not so much many-breasted as a mobile tub entirely made of female sexual parts , a woman-sized , multiple udder of trotters . |
| 9 | Among its specific instructions are a ban on the purchase of furniture made of tropical hardwoods and of refrigerators and other equipment using ozone-depleting chemicals , a call for the recycling of all paper used , and a ban on the purchase of skins and other products from endangered species when a suitable alternative is available . |
| 10 | Of course , that epistemology faces problems of persuasive justification does not , by itself , entail that no use can be made of empirical beliefs . |
| 11 | In addition to this , students deepen their understanding of early literacy and a special study is made of bilingual under- fives . |
| 12 | Their policy was to weave best-quality carpets made of 80 per cent wool and 20 per cent nylon . |
| 13 | A temporary solution was the construction , in various centres of magical lore , of large rooms made of denatured octiron , which is impervious to most forms of magic . |
| 14 | Full use should be made of visual aids and internal specialist advice should be taken . |
| 15 | Full use should be made of visual aids and internal specialist advice should be taken . |
| 16 | There is a lightness of touch in the Gothic tracery in the windows ( although it is made of cast iron ! ) and the barge boarding in the central gable is almost like lace compared with the later and heavier Victorian sort . |
| 17 | Gutters and downpipes , once made of cast iron , are now nearly always of PVC , and none the worse for that except that they need more frequent supports . |
| 18 | It has a diameter of 44 feet and a width of 5 feet , and is made of cast iron , steel and wood , with 162 ‘ buckets ’ . |
| 19 | The first telephone boxes were designed by Sir Giles Scott in 1935 , they were made of cast iron . |
| 20 | Connections to the soil pipe are more difficult as it will almost certainly be made of cast iron — see page 66 . |
| 21 | The rail is made of wrought iron and the rings are made of cast bronze . |
| 22 | And that railway that , little railway wi is made of cast iron . |
| 23 | The year 1660 saw a major revolution in grave-clothes , indirectly leading to the firm establishment of undertaking as a distinct trade , the birth of a new industry and some additional work for the jobbing printer ; for in this year an Act came into force , which decreed that all persons had to be buried in shifts , shrouds and winding-sheets made of woollen material , rather than linen , and free from ‘ Flax , Hemp , Silk , Hair , Gold or Silver , or other than what is made of Sheeps Wooll only ’ . |
| 24 | Fifthly , regular reviews were made of outstanding warrants to see whether their continued operation was justified . |
| 25 | Few classes had access to an extensive range of poetry or play texts and little use was made of pre-20th century literature . |
| 26 | Some mention might be made of possible defences under such circumstances . |
| 27 | Even in more recent statements relating to ‘ integration ’ , still probably the dominant topic in the literature , no mention is made of young people themselves determining the process . |
| 28 | Its design , like Dot 's , was of crossed flags but was n't made of scratchy tin with rusting edges . |
| 29 | A great advantage of these tests — one that was not found in ‘ real ’ tasks — is that sets of them can be made of equal difficulty . |
| 30 | Armed with a saw and a screwdriver I have fitted my own secondary units and , now , some companies are producing panes that are made of high-resilience plastics , which are much lighter to handle and are much warmer to the touch than glass . |