Example sentences of "made up [prep] three [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 However , our foods are made up of three major components which provide energy : carbohydrates , fats and proteins .
2 Then , the therapist can try to shape what has been said by introducing the notion that anxiety is made up of three separate components .
3 George Henry Adams , of Portadown , had been sentenced to a total of 12 months , made up of three consecutive terms , each of four months .
4 The perming process is made up of three basic elements — the perm solution which breaks down the structure of the hair ; the curler around which the hair is wound and the neutraliser which resets the hair into its new shape around the roller .
5 This total ‘ envelope ’ , as the Treasury calls it , is made up of three different kinds of grant , as follows :
6 The complex is made up of three different types of subunit each with its own enzymic activity .
7 The structure of this process can be considered to be made up of three main parts :
8 The following Aria from Dallapiccola 's opera Il prigioniero has equal eight-beat phrase-lengths throughout ( indicated by dotted slurs ) and is made up of three rhythmic elements : repeated crotchets , occasional pairs of quavers , and the dotted rhythm , which occurs only twice : This thematic material ( which recurs frequently in the opera ) comprises a series which begins on C and covers the first five full bars .
9 At its higher levels , what we call culture is made up of three formative elements : Socratic love of knowledge ; [ the Apolline impulse towards ] the beauty of art ; and [ Dionysiac ] metaphysical [ faith ] in the essential indestructibility of life .
10 These results show that the magnetosheath-like plasma precipitation was , in fact , made up of three poleward-moving events from an extended sequence of such features .
11 Societies are thus seen as made up of three interconnected structures , each of which is seen as a mode of production , transforming raw materials into commodities .
12 These circles then touched others , forming groups of three , or ( since the bottom circle could be made up of three little ones ) five .
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