Example sentences of "be made [adv prt] [prep] 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | This would enable parcels of instruments to be made up to a given value , type or maturity for sale and thus improve their marketability . |
| 10 | A car is picking me up at 1.30 to take me to Thames T.V. to be made up as a Chinese coolie . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It will include dual-launch floating point units and be made out of a four-level metal process . |
| 13 | It will include dual-launch floating point and be made out of a 4-level metal process . |
| 14 | Most of the conglomerates which were made up of a disparate collection of businesses have failed . |
| 15 | Either they were made up of a large number of bronze rods , hammered to shape and soldered together . |
| 16 | The counterfeit cheques , for sums between £20 and £60 , were made out over a five-month period from March last year . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The cluster is made up of a small quadrilateral which is distinctive enough , and is very characteristic with × 20 . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | There is a sheet of cells covering the tooth germ which is made up of a loose mass of cells . |
| 25 | The agenda for reform on this issue is made up of a whole range of possibilities . |
| 26 | The Stinkschiefer is made up of a thin unit of dark , laminated , organic-rich carbonate mudstones . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It is made up of an outer sheet of cells which forms a particularly thick structure — the apical ridge — at the tip , with an inner mass of loosely packed and rather dull looking cells . |
| 29 | The sum of the probabilities for space to which records have not been allocated , P EMPTY , is : The rest of the total file area must therefore hold home records , i.e. ( Note : The proportion of the file area that contains home records is calculated indirectly rather than directly , because the sum of home record probabilities is made up of an infinite series , while that of the empty positions is finite , as is clear from equation ( 6.13 ) . ) |
| 30 | For example , the genetic material is made up from a complex molecule known as DNA ( deoxyribonucleic acid ) . |