Example sentences of "[am/are] make [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am not quite the Hochhauser rapist I am made out to be , but I expect a little peck , just here , on the cheek . ’ |
| 2 | Its laws are made piecemeal by Parliament and by judges , who are placed under no overriding constitutional obligation to preserve or protect the media 's right to report matters of public interest . |
| 3 | This planned to reduce expenditure by $S2,200 million ( US$180 million — US dollar conversions are made here at the unofficial rate US$1.00=£S11.4 ) . |
| 4 | Mixers , DSPs ( digital signal processors ) and the new DPM3 keyboards are made here in bright , spacious surroundings . |
| 5 | Mixers , DSPs ( digital signal processors ) and the new DPM3 keyboards are made here in bright , spacious surroundings . |
| 6 | Clays , including the putatively ‘ living ’ clays , are made primarily of silicon . |
| 7 | The most easily dyed materials are wool and silk ; cotton and linen are difficult as they are made primarily of cellulose , being obtained from plants , rather than animal protein , and are better reserved for the time when experience has been obtained with dyeing wool . |
| 8 | But the BMA statement also claimed it was ‘ essential that decisions are made soon in order to avoid hospitals and staff suffering the effects of the blight ’ . |
| 9 | Over half of these are made either at the scene of the crime , the scene of arrest or the defendant 's home . |
| 10 | Veneers are made either by slicing or peeling . |
| 11 | All such rules are made either by a Minister or the Queen-in-Council in exercise of powers conferred by statute , and they must normally be published . |
| 12 | The laws relating to civil and criminal wrongs are made either by Parliament in the form of Acts of Parliament ( also called statutes ) or by the judges themselves ( called the common law ) . |
| 13 | Woven carpets are made either by the Axminster or the Wilton method . |
| 14 | Timber windows are made either from preservative-treated softwood or a rot-resistant hardwood such as mahogany , and many have high-performance specifications that include integral weather-stripping and sealed unit double glazing . |
| 15 | Keane says we need ‘ a differentiated and pluralistic system of power where decisions of interests to collectives of various sites are made autonomously by all their members ’ . |
| 16 | Clothes are contemporarily customised ( shortened tartan kilts , £5 ) while fabric donations are made up into designs by fashion students . |
| 17 | However , if these items are made up into attractive dishes they can be photographed and used to good effect with features on " Supper Dishes with Soup " or " Crunchy Toppings ' . |
| 18 | Single widths of printed muslin are made up into a pair of 3-metre curtains . |
| 19 | Most of the beds in the house are made up with pillows , bolsters , sheets and blankets . |
| 20 | Our Home Care teams are made up of doctors and nurses backed by a network of trained and active volunteers . |
| 21 | Apple trees are made up of two parts , the fruiting variety and the rootstock . |
| 22 | Muscles are made up of fibres which have different mechanical properties , and two of the main groups of fibres are called fast twitch fibres and slow twitch fibres . |
| 23 | The stomach muscles are made up of several muscle groups , the most important being the rectus abdominis and the external oblique . |
| 24 | It also reveals that 18.9 per cent of households , 434 in all , are made up of people who have retired to the Dales and of these some 54 per cent previously lived outside Yorkshire . |
| 25 | Class 1 NI are made up of the employer 's share , which you pay , and the employee 's share , which you can deduct from your employee 's pay . |
| 26 | Most hunts are made up of a complete cross-section of society , the only qualification being an ability to ride . |
| 27 | Composed of sympathisers , spies and informers of the regime , the Battalions are made up of men , mostly in their late teens and 20s , who cruised the streets of Panama City in trucks and open Jeeps , armed with clubs , rubber truncheons ( akin to South African sjamboks ) , knives and hand-guns . |
| 28 | Britain 's invisible earnings , which are made up of a surplus on things like insurance and banking offset by government contributions to the European Community and overseas aid , are now projected to be about £2,670million in 1989 , less than half the £6,100million total earned in 1988 . |
| 29 | In March 1970 Saddam Hussein ( the Iraqi regime 's strong man , but not yet president ) negotiated a deal with the late Mullah Mustafa Barzani that stated : ‘ The people of Iraq are made up of two principal nationalities , the Arab nationality and the Kurdish nationality . ’ |
| 30 | Further analysis of the above five steps could be conducted ( for instance , it is worth noting that they are made up of ( I ) non-drama — 1 ( 2 ) nun-drama — 1 ( 3 ) drama — 1 ( 4 ) non-drama — 1 ( 5 ) drama activities ) but it is not in the matter of graded steps within a sequence that drama resembles a game : the game element of drama is inherent within each stop . |