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

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1 An integrated circuit can be made up of a few capacitors , diodes , resistors and transistors or even thousands of them .
2 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 .
3 The interview is made up of the two sets of interrelated emotions — those of the adviser and those of the client .
4 ‘ It is largely made up of the petty squabbles of shop-keepers and the airy superiority of the ironmasters . ’
5 He added : ‘ The picture of politics which survives , however , is completely different , and is largely made up of the petty squabbles of shopkeepers and the airy superiority of the ironmasters . ’
6 Nevertheless , ‘ knowledges ’ are products like any others , and are thus the results of certain processes of production , made up of the usual elements .
7 A typical data processing ( DP ) department of the 1960's would have been made up of the following components :
8 In any given case the decision of the court will be made up of the following elements :
9 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 ) .
10 This was made up of the organic residues of farms , forestry , industry and domestic refuse .
11 The train will be the Ffestiniog 's Vintage Train , made up of the oldest vehicles on the railway , some dating back to the 1860's .
12 The television-viewing public was made up of the older stay-at-homes , not the swinging exotics whose exploits filled the front pages of the newspapers .
13 For example , the family is made up of the interconnected roles of husband , father , wife , mother , son and daughter .
14 Later paradigms saw the entire universe as being made up of the same kinds of material substances .
15 They are all made up of the same shapes-triangles , squares and rectangles .
16 Even when made up with the finest cosmetics money could buy it would never be beautiful , but still … not bad for an ugly duckling , Sally thought , smiling wryly .
17 The train sets were made up with the following types of coaches :
18 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 .
19 These total plans are made up from the individual plans of every business activity of the corporation .
20 The former is a collection of the more interesting statistics published by the state , and the latter is made up from the same sources , but is presented in a more varied and readable form , including charts and diagrams .
21 Yet nothing can quite make up for the gaudy excesses of the auto-da-fe .
22 It will make up for the thirty-five minutes you were late . ’
23 5.3.1 an aggregate sum of ten thousand dollars ( $10,000 ) as an advance on the sums due under clause 5.3.2 below and made up of the following payments :
24 We can create particles made up of the other quarks ( strange , charmed , bottom , and top ) , but these all have a much greater mass and decay very rapidly into protons and neutrons .
25 The summit dealt with the Czechoslovak proposal for a European security commission made up of the 35 states participating in the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) , as a first step towards a European confederation , as well as a similar Polish proposal .
26 Like Domanov 's Cossacks , this heterogeneous group , made up from the various peoples around the Caucasus , including Georgians , Armenians and Azerbaidjani Moslems , had originally joined the German retreat westwards in 1942–3 .
27 Almost a million new jobs have come to the state since 1990 , many in pharmaceuticals and electronics , making up for the 1,000 jobs a month which have been lost in mature heavy industries .
28 But that one painted notice is not enough to make up for the shabby doors , scruffy brickwork , and grimy frosted glass .
29 Some of the RPF 's leaders were uneasy about risking the new movement 's reputation by contesting these elections , but de Gaulle , perhaps trying to make up for the lost opportunities of 1945 and 1946 , was adamant that the Rassemblement should make an all-out effort to capture as much popular support as possible .
30 as if to make up for the early deaths of her sisters , she lived to a ripe old age , dying in the Almshouses at Dorking on 4 November 1855 , aged eighty-seven .
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