Example sentences of "[be] [verb] up of a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some programmes are made up of a straight interview , but your spokesman , may not actually be in the same studio as the interviewer . |
| 2 | Most hunts are made up of a complete cross-section of society , the only qualification being an ability to ride . |
| 3 | Pigs are our chief prey item — half the meat in the human diet , worldwide , is pork , That has to mean that those of us who are n't Jews , Moslems or vegetarians are made up of a large proportion of protein that arrived by way of the animal we most like to sneer at — not to mention mistreat , in the most abominable ways . |
| 4 | When a thin section of a basalt is examined under a microscope , it can be seen to be made up of a closely-felted mass of interlocking needle-like crystals of feldspar , a millimetre or so long , with a scattering of more colourful tiny crystals of olivine and pyroxene and some black opaque specks of iron oxides . |
| 5 | Instead they will be made up of a small professional core supplemented by part-timers plus a number of small firms to which they will contract out work . |
| 6 | The main board will normally be made up of a chief executive , who will hold the office of managing director , or possibly chairman , or both , and will include a number of ‘ heads of department ’ , for example the finance director , personnel director , technical director , and so on . |
| 7 | Electromagnetic radiation oscillating v times a second turns out to be made up of a whole number of packets of energy , each of amount unc where h is Planck 's celebrated constant . |
| 8 | Most of the conglomerates which were made up of a disparate collection of businesses have failed . |
| 9 | Either they were made up of a large number of bronze rods , hammered to shape and soldered together . |
| 10 | The infill of the cave is made up of a wide variety of materials , from silts to large stones , and the radioactive content of these materials is similarly variable . |
| 11 | The cluster is made up of a small quadrilateral which is distinctive enough , and is very characteristic with × 20 . |
| 12 | A message is made up of a fixed number of time-frames , and during each time-frame either f0 is transmitted to represent the digit ‘ 0 ’ , or f1 is transmitted to represent the other binary digit ‘ 1 ’ . |
| 13 | This is made up of a twenty-four-bit field containing the overflow address plus control information , followed by the record key , which can be up to sixty-four characters in length . |
| 14 | The general solution of the form used in eqn ( 10.6 ) is made up of a linear combination of the two orthogonal states : and where φ is an arbitrary |
| 15 | ‘ So , ’ he continued , ‘ each pulse of light is made up of a short series of humps and dips — a bit like the water ripples you get when you drop the soap into the bath . |
| 16 | I mean if you think that an atom is , as we said , typically ten to the minus eight of a centimetre , then a nucleus is typically ten to the minus twelve of a centimetre , so that 's four orders of magnitude down , so the nucleus itself , if you scaled the whole thing down by a factor of ten to the four , the neucleus itself again is made up of a fair amount of free space and loss of particles inside it . |
| 17 | There is a sheet of cells covering the tooth germ which is made up of a loose mass of cells . |
| 18 | The agenda for reform on this issue is made up of a whole range of possibilities . |
| 19 | The Stinkschiefer is made up of a thin unit of dark , laminated , organic-rich carbonate mudstones . |
| 20 | As Amsterdam is made up of a criss-crossed network of canals , one of the best ways to get around the city is by boat . |
| 21 | The Commission was made up of a wide range of eminent people involved in the existing mental health services , and it took evidence from a variety of those involved in the care of this group . |