Example sentences of "[am/are] [vb pp] [adv prt] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are spat out of fevered loins , or punctured rubber , or drunken grapplings in creaking beds . |
| 2 | We are spat out of fevered loins , or punctured rubber , or drunken grapplings in creaking beds . ’ |
| 3 | And there is another aspect of the construction of a word which it may also be helpful to know something about : that some ( particularly longer ) words are built out of other words , by adding prefixes at the beginning or suffixes at the end . |
| 4 | Labour will ensure that these services are in place before patients who will benefit from life in the community are transferred out of long-term hospital care . |
| 5 | They are made up of four triangular sides , and are splendid tetrahedra . ) |
| 6 | Lady 's Smock : These flowers are made up of four pink or lilac veined petals and grow in small clusters . |
| 7 | In Britain , all bands are made up of burly chaps whose pent-up emotions cause them to split up by post and be rude to the bass player in print rather than face the separation . |
| 8 | Both plants and animals are made up of eukaryotic cells , although the first simple cell was the procaryotic type . |
| 9 | Apple trees are made up of two parts , the fruiting variety and the rootstock . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | Nationalization 's successors on the Tyne are made up of two management buy-outs and Smiths , which is the fag-end of the original Swan Hunter empire . |
| 12 | Even now there are theories which say that quarks are made up of other things and so on , so I mean who knows . |
| 13 | The injunction that an article must be " taken as a whole " will apply to books and plays and films : in the case of magazines , however , which are made up of separate articles , advertisements and photographs , the " dominant impact " principle has less force . |
| 14 | Companies are made up of hundred of individual citizens who may depend on the support services of the voluntary sector . |
| 15 | The 580 acres are made up of landscaped hills and valleys , avenues , walks , lakes and cascades ; 37 of the original garden buildings survive . |
| 16 | For north-eastern USA , measurements suggest that the contributions to total acidity are made up of 62 per cent from sulphuric acid , 32 per cent from nitric acid , and 6 per cent from hydrochloric acid ( Record et al. , 1982 ) . |
| 17 | The eyes of insects are made up of tiny hexagonal units called ommatidia . |
| 18 | All fats are made up of fatty acids : some of these are saturated fatty acids ( called saturates ) , the rest are unsaturated and these include a special group called polyunsaturated fatty acids ( or polyunsaturates ) . |
| 19 | They are made up of chopped leaves and grass cuttings . |
| 20 | Professionalism We have seen how public sector organisations are made up of professional groups and have briefly discussed their importance for organisations . |
| 21 | The distinction is an important one : books on a shelf may be in poor condition , and may indeed deteriorate in their locations ( particularly when they are made up of self-destructive acidic paper ) , but their deterioration will be very much slower than if they are transported to a reading room for consultation by a reader . |
| 22 | In complex businesses , these trends are not stable because they are made up of complex interactions of diverse circumstances . |
| 23 | Animals are made up of specialized cells , such as blood cells , cartilage cells , fat cells , muscle cells , nerve cells — humans have about 350 different cell types while lower animals , like hydra , only 10 to 20 . |
| 24 | The term ‘ market segmentation ’ is based on the concept that most , if not all , markets are made up of different types of customers ie within each total market , there exist sub-markets which express distinctive product preferences compared with each other . |
| 25 | In organisational terms , a pluralist approach would suggest that organisations are made up of different groups each with access to the decision-making processes and with the ability to influence those processes . |
| 26 | Bureaucrats are made up of different types of officials . |
| 27 | The assumption is that organisations are made up of different types of individuals who have different motives . |
| 28 | All SCOTVEC qualifications are made up of different combinations of : |
| 29 | The slopes themselves are made up of tough diamond shapes of bristles not unlike giant toothbrushes . |
| 30 | The stomach muscles are made up of several muscle groups , the most important being the rectus abdominis and the external oblique . |