Example sentences of "make [adv prt] [prep] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Well , you could have put that scene he made on at a theatre in the West End and charged for tickets , I reckon .
2 My face seemed to be made up of a mass of needles or electrical impulses . ’
3 My face seemed to be made up of a mass of needles or spikes or electrical impulses .
4 Each spreadsheet page is made up of a grid of columns and rows .
5 The Situationist Scrapbook includes only two synoptical essays , the rest being made up of a selection of documents produced in various parts of Europe and Britain from the fifties to the eighties , some of which predate the founding of the Situationist International ( henceforth the ‘ SI' ) .
6 Interactionists would question that implication , and argue that they are made up of a plurality of values and norms , which may often conflict .
7 Cell walls are made up of a variety of substances of which only one , cellulose , is truly fibrous in the sense of being filamentous or threadlike .
8 A legal system is not a monolith , but is made up of a variety of legal ‘ arenas ’ in which many different ‘ legal languages ’ are spoken , and while some of these arenas may well be prepared to listen to the presentation of a problem in one jurisprudential language , others might reject it completely ( Ladeur , 1984 ; Sciolla , 1983 ; Dunsire , 1978 ) .
9 Such incentives might be made up of a share of the surplus which the bureaucrats could appropriate ; ‘ deferred prizes ’ for keeping a bureau 's output within what was promised in a budget-output proposal and for returning money to the general fund during an official 's tenure of office ; and allocations towards supplementary activities such as travel budgets .
10 The migrating cells may be made up of a mixture of all the different cell types in immature form , that go to all the sites and a particular type survives only if it arrives at an appropriate site — a sort of cell selection .
11 Inactivation of the X chromosome is random so that the early embryo is made up of a mixture of cells in which one or other of the X chromosomes is inactivated .
12 These zones may be made up of a mixture of land uses .
13 It can not be made up of a wave with a unique value for its wavelength since such a wave stretches on for ever .
14 The Certificate is made up of a range of foundation units with specialist options .
15 Well I think the the overall housing figures which were contained in the approved structure plan , made up of a range of sites and allocations .
16 These are made up of a core of non-polar lipids ( triglyceride and cholesterol esters ) with polar lipids ( phospholipids , free cholesterol and apoproteins ) located on the outer part of the macromolecules ( Galton , et al , 1982 ) .
17 Cork is made up of a myriad of tiny cells , each imprisoning a tiny pocket of air .
18 The conditions are made up of a myriad of separate agreements , some going back to the 1920s .
19 Lateral thinking and tolerating eccentricity are British characteristics whereas quality programmes tend to be made up of a lot of little things which cumulatively add up to something important . ’
20 Defending the family as the centre of human life and the village as the basic social unit Eliot expresses his preference for London over other cities since it remains characteristically made up of a collection of villages whose borders touch , each maintaining its own local character .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 Perhaps we can say that capitalist equilibrium is made up of a series of moments of dis-equilibria .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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