Example sentences of "[being] made up of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could be argued that these groups were formed as much for sociability as for making money , being made up of friends or acquaintances , but at any event their reasons fell short of promoting definite artistic programmes . |
| 2 | 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' ) . |
| 3 | The wire ropes were 2½ inches in diameter , being made up of wires approximately ⅛ inch diameter . |
| 4 | An outstanding example of this type of narrative is Vargas Llosa 's Conversation in the Cathedral , which pivots around a four-hour conversation between two characters , the whole novel being made up of dialogue and narrative units generated in waves by the central conversation , as the two men 's review of their past lives sparks off inner thoughts and recollections and conjures up other conversations and dramatized episodes . |
| 5 | Christmas tree ( linked to nine — a line ) : A long line starting at my feet and stretching to infinity — the line being made up of thousands of tiny Christmas trees ; |
| 6 | Each song consists of a constant number of these themes , each theme being made up of a number of phrases . |
| 7 | It 's also significant that the school 's reputation seems greater abroad than it is within the USA , with a large complement of each class being made up of foreign students . |
| 8 | Each human being strives to keep himself or herself going in their own particular character , but being made up of parts , those parts which have any kind of individuality also try to keep themselves going . |
| 9 | Each paradigm will regard the world as being made up of different kinds of things . |
| 10 | Later paradigms saw the entire universe as being made up of the same kinds of material substances . |
| 11 | The sweets called marshmallows do not now contain any of the substance of the plant , being made up of gum , egg-white , flour , sweetening , colouring and so on . |
| 12 | Each character generated by the Spectrum requires one byte of storage space , each byte being made up of eight bits . |
| 13 | Free counterpoints are common enough in serialism , the various voices in polyphony being made up of different rhythmic designs . |
| 14 | The gold content of the average coin is barely four parts in twelve , the balance being made up of silver , copper — ’ |
| 15 | He saw this as being compatible with the crust being made up of two layers , the upper one of relatively low density , the lower layer of higher density . |
| 16 | Operational deposits make up approximately a fifth of bankers ' balances held at the bank , the remainder being made up of non-interest bearing cash deposits that banks are required to keep at the Bank of England to provide it with an income . |