Example sentences of "make [adv prt] of an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Team sizes can be varied but they are always made up of an odd number of competitors . |
| 2 | It is made up of an outer sheet of cells which forms a particularly thick structure — the apical ridge — at the tip , with an inner mass of loosely packed and rather dull looking cells . |
| 3 | The group was made up of an educational psychologist , a psychiatric social worker , an educational welfare worker and myself . |
| 4 | The sum of the probabilities for space to which records have not been allocated , P EMPTY , is : The rest of the total file area must therefore hold home records , i.e. ( Note : The proportion of the file area that contains home records is calculated indirectly rather than directly , because the sum of home record probabilities is made up of an infinite series , while that of the empty positions is finite , as is clear from equation ( 6.13 ) . ) |
| 5 | The Great Western Weekend will be made up of an intensive service using 5029 , the railway 's own resident ex-GW ‘ Odney Manor , ’ and another visitor , 2-8-0T 5220 from the Great Central Railway . |
| 6 | Expensive-looking loafers , preferably made out of an endangered species , remain essential for any aspiring manager . |
| 7 | Jeans cut off thigh-high to make shorts and a T-shirt he had made out of an old man 's vest he had bought for 20p in a sale under the arches at Charing Cross Station and dyed green and yellow . |
| 8 | It was too late , I could n't prevent myself from eidetiking Mr Broadhurst 's unusual caduceus , the one he had made out of an old TV aerial garnished with flex , and I could n't prevent myself from reading on : |
| 9 | In the centre was the ironing-board made out of an old table covered with a blanket and a sheet . |
| 10 | It hardly seemed fair to keep them in the cage she had made out of an old claret case she had dragged up from the cellar . |
| 11 | It includes every kind of artistic endeavour — from conventional watercolours to a pink hippopotamus made out of an old car . |
| 12 | If necessary complaints will be decided by a special committee ( called a Service Committee ) made up of an equal number of health practitioners and members of the public , with a chairman who is not a health practitioner . |
| 13 | Well the fear of boring you because I 've said it before , I think that either a Trustee made up of an equal balance of members from the various interested groups which is very difficult to achieve in practice and additionally independent trustees certainly in our case , we believe would have stopped it happening because the movements in the direction it went was clear now that we have the information in front of us to the Trustees , it was quite clear what was gon na happen and nothing was done about it . |
| 14 | The plant — hospitals , equipment , surgeries — being state-owned and state-administered , those changes do not come about by a gradual process made up of an infinite number of individual decisions : they happen in lurches , of which the most visible form is not the provision of new plant but the discontinuance of old plant . |
| 15 | ‘ My colleagues and I will be very interested , ’ he said sourly , ‘ to know what kind of propaganda that red magazine you work for can make out of an international survey of prospective parents . ’ |
| 16 | And this is a child 's and bonnet to make out of an old felted woolly . |