Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] of [art] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the compositions , which are now built up of a series of flat planes mounting upwards behind each other in shallow depth , are clearly derived from Cézanne . |
| 2 | A film is made up of a series of shots that may be photographed over various periods of time ; a ‘ take ’ that may have originally started out as three or four minutes in length may eventually be edited to a ten second shot . |
| 3 | And if the roof is made up of a series of roof trusses , these should all be joined up by timbers running the length of the roof to prevent a ‘ domino ’ kind of collapse . |
| 4 | At an early stage in development the human face is made up of a series of bumps , which looks quite grotesque , and there is little hint of the face that will emerge . |
| 5 | Perhaps we can say that capitalist equilibrium is made up of a series of moments of dis-equilibria . |
| 6 | If certain forms of history stress continuity , try to account for change , the history of science by contrast must be disjointed , for it is made up of a series of corrections in which the errors of the past have to be simply discarded . |
| 7 | It is long ( perhaps 50 to 100 bits ) , and is made up of a series of short encoded fields specifying gates to be opened and control signals to be transmitted . |
| 8 | The balanced tree index shown in Fig. 7.3(a) is made up of a series of index levels , each pointing to the level below it . |
| 9 | These interests may be different from other social classes , in which case the society may become stratified , that is , made up of a series of social classes differentiated by status and prestige . |
| 10 | This is made up of a series of 100-hour modules each lasting over two terms , with the certificate being awarded after 200 hours of study . |
| 11 | A ‘ Likert ’ survey is made up of a series of statements which are related to a person 's attitude to a single object , in this case using computers in school . |
| 12 | A module header is made up of a series of keywords ( upper case ) and their associated fields in which the user may supply some information . |
| 13 | Lough Lannagh is made up of a series of lakes containing deep holes and is known as a dangerous area for swimming . |
| 14 | The loads are constructed and pushed out of the aircraft by men from the army 's Royal Logistic Corps . |
| 15 | When fully developed ( Figs. and 48 ) they consist essentially of a pair of claspers which help to grip the female during copulation and between which lies the aedeagus . |
| 16 | They consist essentially of a series of sharp headlands of shingle separated by sweeping bays ( Fig. 8.16 ) . |
| 17 | We hear also of a series of disasters visited by God on the country , in order to force the Egyptians ' hands . |
| 18 | Others are impossible to locate and drop out of the statistics in due course ; therefore accurate figures are difficult to obtain . |
| 19 | The picture is described as having been formed out of a series of anxious revisions which incorporate all that has preceded them so that there are glimpses of ‘ buried entities ’ to enliven gaps and edges . |
| 20 | Had he fallen out of an aircraft on its way from New York to Tripoli ? |
| 21 | In a counterattack the FARC claimed responsibility for the bombing of a bus in Medellín on Dec. 12 in which seven police officers were killed ; for five widely separated attacks on Dec. 13 during which an Army helicopter was badly damaged and an unspecified number of soldiers killed ; for the dynamiting of a police post in Medellín on Dec. 15 ; and the blowing up of an aircraft at the Villa Garzon airport , 482 km south of Bogotá in the south-western region of Putumayo , on Dec. 16 ( all 19 passengers having been evacuated beforehand ) . |
| 22 | Richie 's voice , slightly distorted , was coming out of the V of his jacket . |
| 23 | Though invalided out of the infantry in 1915 with tuberculosis , Pearson volunteered the following year for the Army Service Corps , and was commissioned and served for three years in Mesopotamia and Persia . |
| 24 | The unit comes extremely well packed in polystyrene , not a bad thing considering it costs a fairly staggering £143.75 , and consists mainly of a 25mm by 355mm by 260mm black plastic box . |
| 25 | It shows this air crew just as he baled out of the aircraft less his parachute harness which he had abandoned on landing . |
| 26 | Mr Wright , a widower with one son and two grandchildren , was making his first operational parachute drop when he bailed out of an aircraft over Arnhem in September 1944 . |
| 27 | After about ten minutes — several riderless horses had skipped over the line by now , and another contender had cleared the last jump , and was gaining — Bumboy was finally scourged out of a series of circles and flopped over the line , home by half a length . |
| 28 | They present convex outlines in plan whether they are simple or compound deltas , composed virtually of a series of sub-deltas . |
| 29 | This means that she jumped out of the aircraft by herself and her parachute opened automatically seconds later . |