Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] of [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are phoney devices built up of strips of card or other material to give an appearance of genuine binding . |
| 2 | Yesterday he was offered the chance to pull out of part of it and go home because of his domestic troubles . |
| 3 | She found a cyke parked out of range of the explosion , and straddled it . |
| 4 | Other paths can be programmed out of sequences of those provided , together with logical operations where necessary for masking , etc . |
| 5 | In particular we shall show that there is good reason to distinguish ritual aggressive action , made up of elements of symbolic or metonymic violence , from physical violence directed in an aggressive way towards another human being . |
| 6 | The government is made up of members of the legislature ; ministers may have both legislative and adjudicatory functions ; while Parliament may dismiss a government through a vote of no confidence , government , to a large extent , controls the legislative work of Parliament . |
| 7 | However , he is still with us , and his contribution from the Dispatch Box was in his usual style , as if this House was not made up of Members of Parliament , but delegates , all with their blue rinses and red necks , applauding to the rafters when he makes one of his roustabout speeches to the Conservative party conference . |
| 8 | The Institute of the future could be made up of groups of chartered accountants , with their own specialist designatory letters , if proposals unanimously endorsed by the Institute 's Council , are approved . |
| 9 | The ‘ Asian ’ group , for example , is itself made up of groups of different levels of achievement . |
| 10 | The desert sand sometimes seemed to be made up of pellets of dried yeast , road-workers ' grit , or face-powder . |
| 11 | We have seen the market during any period of time as made up of decisions of market participants . |
| 12 | Inevitably , the process produces an unimaginative , safe shortlist , made up of products of established court families . |
| 13 | It could be seen that the main structures , the twisted claws and the lumpy core , were themselves made up of accretions of smaller shapes that resembled nightmare exaggerations of arthropod and cephalopod forms . |
| 14 | His views on the rights of hereditary monarchy and episcopacy were those of Charles Leslie [ q.v. ] , whom he admired , but Earbery had none of his wit or power of reasoning : his numerous works are largely made up of quantities of historical narrative , related with a strong ideological bias , often laced with personal abuse . |
| 15 | Another example would be a picture made up of shades of grey , when you could accompany a grey or silver frame with a pale mount , perhaps dove grey in colour , with a dark charcoal backing which would show off all the silvery grey leaves and white flowers in the design . |
| 16 | An obvious problem is that a text is not made up of collections of sentences , but of sentences organised into a coherent whole . |
| 17 | The role of governments was also strengthened at Paris by the formal creation of a ‘ European Council ’ , made up of heads of government and foreign ministers to meet three times per year . |
| 18 | Although there is some variation from area to area , each committee is made up of representatives of the key agencies who carry sufficient authority to act on their agency 's behalf . |
| 19 | The UDCs were made up of representatives of financial institutions , private developers , construction firms and manufacturing industry . |
| 20 | An initial working party , made up of representatives of all sections of the industry , was established in conjunction with Industry Matters to address the issues which have led to the perception of the industry as an unattractive career option . |
| 21 | Mujjaddedi had proposed instead to transfer power to the interim Islamic Jihad Council ( IJC ) , made up of representatives of mujaheddin groups and headed by Mujjaddedi himself . |
| 22 | They are made up of representatives of the RENFE unions in proportion to the results obtained in the periodic union elections in which the whole workforce is entitled to participate . |
| 23 | According to Mary Frances Lyon , who discovered that only one of the X chromosomes is active in female mammals , it is completely random which particular X chromosome is inactivated in any given cell , so an individual female is made up of clones of cells in which either the maternal or paternal X chromosome has been switched off . |
| 24 | Such divisions are artificial , for the smallest social unit , the family , is made up of people of different ages . |
| 25 | Another well-documented foreign garrison in Egypt ( this time directed against trouble from the south as well as subversion from inside ) was made up of contingents of Jews stationed in Upper Egypt at Edfu ( Elephantine ) , at the Third Cataract of the Nile . |
| 26 | Their furnishing is seldom above the spartan level and the main focus of activity is made up of jars of instant coffee , electric kettles , a sink and a draining board . |
| 27 | Instead , it preferred the creation of a national body for public sector higher education along the lines of the University Grants Committee which would directly control the polytechnics and colleges and which would be made up of nominees of the Secretary of State . |
| 28 | West Kensington itself was made up of rows of five-storey peeling stucco houses broken up into bed-sits that were mostly occupied by foreign students , itinerants and poor people who 'd lived there for years . |
| 29 | There is really very little excuse for the student wandering out of reach of the field if he has been taught well in the first place . |
| 30 | ‘ Oh , my God , ’ said Paula as they drove out of sight of the frontier post , ‘ my palms are wet inside my gloves . ’ |