Example sentences of "make [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] [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 It was already beginning to fill up with French businessmen , and Jean-Paul made purposefully for a table in the window .
3 The assignments in polymer mechanics have been made largely as a result of experimental work with chemical analogues of the polymer under study — for example for polystyrene by the use of substitutions one the position of the ( glass-rubber ) and other transitions is observed , and some , largely qualitative , rules laid down .
4 My face seemed to be made up of a mass of needles or electrical impulses . ’
5 My face seemed to be made up of a mass of needles or spikes or electrical impulses .
6 Each spreadsheet page is made up of a grid of columns and rows .
7 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' ) .
8 Interactionists would question that implication , and argue that they are made up of a plurality of values and norms , which may often conflict .
9 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 .
10 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 ) .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 These zones may be made up of a mixture of land uses .
15 It can not be made up of a wave with a unique value for its wavelength since such a wave stretches on for ever .
16 The Certificate is made up of a range of foundation units with specialist options .
17 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 .
18 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 ) .
19 Cork is made up of a myriad of tiny cells , each imprisoning a tiny pocket of air .
20 The conditions are made up of a myriad of separate agreements , some going back to the 1920s .
21 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 . ’
22 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 .
23 It was also made up of a hospital in Jerusalem which cares for both Arabs and Jews , an Ambulance Air Wing with 60 volunteer pilots and 50 planes throughout Europe , and an aeromedical section to return people to the nearest hospital to home from the scene of an accident again on a Europe-wide basis .
24 Sekers , like Stoddard is made up of a group of companies .
25 Motivation is an ‘ event ’ in itself — motivation is made up of a number of factors of which the most important are the perceived value of the outcome to the individual and the correlation between that outcome and the effort necessary to achieve it .
26 Multi- stage sampling can be used when the population is made up of a number of sub-units .
27 Like all enzymes it is a protein and like some it is made up of a number of polypeptide subunits ( so forming a ‘ complex ’ ) .
28 It is made up of a number of bones ( vertebrae ) which are placed one on top of another .
29 Each song consists of a constant number of these themes , each theme being made up of a number of phrases .
30 Business Direct is made up of a number of different services , each designed to smooth your way throughout the world .
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