Example sentences of "be make up [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 A typical data processing ( DP ) department of the 1960's would have been made up of the following components :
2 Some programmes are made up of a straight interview , but your spokesman , may not actually be in the same studio as the interviewer .
3 Most hunts are made up of a complete cross-section of society , the only qualification being an ability to ride .
4 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 .
5 Both body and clothing are made up of the black and the white — uncomplicated but striking — and her complexion shines like gold ( 3236 – 41 ; 3246 ; 3255 – 6 ) .
6 Too often headteacher 's reports are made up of the dry dust of lists of attendance figures , class visits , building repairs , pupil numbers and details of resignations and appointments .
7 The Reaver Knights are made up of the wildest and most headstrong sons of the noble houses .
8 These total plans are made up from the individual plans of every business activity of the corporation .
9 All counting numbers , or " natural " numbers are made up from the same group of symbols or figures : 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 An integrated circuit can be made up of a few capacitors , diodes , resistors and transistors or even thousands of them .
14 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 .
15 One alternative would be that history may be made up of the multiple meanings of specific , particular histories — without their necessarily being in turn part of a larger meaning of an underlying Idea or force .
16 The crew of the train will be made up of the following people : Keith Dawson ( organiser of ‘ Vintage Train ’ ) ; .
17 In any given case the decision of the court will be made up of the following elements :
18 The Great Western Weekend will be made up of an intensive service using 5029 , the railway 's own resident ex-GW ‘ Odney Manor , ’ and another visitor , 2-8-0T 5220 from the Great Central Railway .
19 This would enable parcels of instruments to be made up to a given value , type or maturity for sale and thus improve their marketability .
20 He notes that any loss of earnings can usually be made up during the first ten years of work .
21 A car is picking me up at 1.30 to take me to Thames T.V. to be made up as a Chinese coolie .
22 With a low-start , low-cost with-profits endowment , payments are reduced in the first few years , and the difference has to be made up in the remaining period .
23 Those with a knowledge of simple trigonometry will recognise that oscillation in any other direction perpendicular to z , say in the direction x , could be made up from a component proportional to cos u in the direction x and a component proportional to sin u in the direction y .
24 Later paradigms saw the entire universe as being made up of the same kinds of material substances .
25 The train sets were made up with the following types of coaches :
26 Most of the conglomerates which were made up of a disparate collection of businesses have failed .
27 Either they were made up of a large number of bronze rods , hammered to shape and soldered together .
28 In the early 1980s , 80 per cent of agricultural exports were made up of the following items , in order of importance : coffee , sugar , soya beans , oil seed meal and oil-cake , cotton , cocoa , bananas , beef and live cattle , maize and wheat ( López Cordovez 1982 ) .
29 There were only half a dozen sergeants in the mess , but the numbers were made up by the civilian engineers who worked on the project .
30 Any lack of elegance in the prose is made up with the gripping action .
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