Example sentences of "make up [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 A message is made up of a fixed number of time-frames , and during each time-frame either f0 is transmitted to represent the digit ‘ 0 ’ , or f1 is transmitted to represent the other binary digit ‘ 1 ’ .
2 Each operand is a computer word ( either in the accumulator or a store location ) , made up of a fixed number of decimal digits .
3 The main board will normally be made up of a chief executive , who will hold the office of managing director , or possibly chairman , or both , and will include a number of ‘ heads of department ’ , for example the finance director , personnel director , technical director , and so on .
4 Instead they will be made up of a small professional core supplemented by part-timers plus a number of small firms to which they will contract out work .
5 The cluster is made up of a small quadrilateral which is distinctive enough , and is very characteristic with × 20 .
6 Yes it 's erm made up of a small proportion of the countries in the General , General Assembly , about five countries and seats on it erm basically the allies from the second world war erm and the other seats are changed around periodically between the nation , other nations .
7 Some programmes are made up of a straight interview , but your spokesman , may not actually be in the same studio as the interviewer .
8 Most hunts are made up of a complete cross-section of society , the only qualification being an ability to ride .
9 Apparently a nova is a close binary system , made up of a cool , normal star and a White Dwarf .
10 Stamford , one of Hoskins ' ‘ open-field ’ towns , is actually made up of a Danish burgh , founded in 877 on the north side of the River Welland and consisting of a roughly rectangular block bisected by the east-west High Street , and an English burgh to the south of the river founded by King Edward in 918 , and consisting of a neat rectangular area bisected by the north-south St Martins High Street .
11 The infill of the cave is made up of a wide variety of materials , from silts to large stones , and the radioactive content of these materials is similarly variable .
12 The Commission was made up of a wide range of eminent people involved in the existing mental health services , and it took evidence from a variety of those involved in the care of this group .
13 This is made up of a twenty-four-bit field containing the overflow address plus control information , followed by the record key , which can be up to sixty-four characters in length .
14 When a thin section of a basalt is examined under a microscope , it can be seen to be made up of a closely-felted mass of interlocking needle-like crystals of feldspar , a millimetre or so long , with a scattering of more colourful tiny crystals of olivine and pyroxene and some black opaque specks of iron oxides .
15 Most of the conglomerates which were made up of a disparate collection of businesses have failed .
16 These are usually made up of a central pit or cup , surrounded by one ring or concentric rings or spiral turns .
17 It included the Monetary Co-operation Fund and it created a European Currency Unit ( ECU ) , made up of a trade-weighted ‘ basket ’ of currencies , as a measure for certain EC activities , including for example , the ‘ intervention price ’ under CAP .
18 There is a sheet of cells covering the tooth germ which is made up of a loose mass of cells .
19 The idea is that large , complex systems are often made up of a single , simple shape repeated over and again .
20 ‘ So , ’ he continued , ‘ each pulse of light is made up of a short series of humps and dips — a bit like the water ripples you get when you drop the soap into the bath .
21 As Amsterdam is made up of a criss-crossed network of canals , one of the best ways to get around the city is by boat .
22 The general solution of the form used in eqn ( 10.6 ) is made up of a linear combination of the two orthogonal states : and where φ is an arbitrary
23 The Stinkschiefer is made up of a thin unit of dark , laminated , organic-rich carbonate mudstones .
24 Either they were made up of a large number of bronze rods , hammered to shape and soldered together .
25 Pigs are our chief prey item — half the meat in the human diet , worldwide , is pork , That has to mean that those of us who are n't Jews , Moslems or vegetarians are made up of a large proportion of protein that arrived by way of the animal we most like to sneer at — not to mention mistreat , in the most abominable ways .
26 I mean if you think that an atom is , as we said , typically ten to the minus eight of a centimetre , then a nucleus is typically ten to the minus twelve of a centimetre , so that 's four orders of magnitude down , so the nucleus itself , if you scaled the whole thing down by a factor of ten to the four , the neucleus itself again is made up of a fair amount of free space and loss of particles inside it .
27 Electromagnetic radiation oscillating v times a second turns out to be made up of a whole number of packets of energy , each of amount unc where h is Planck 's celebrated constant .
28 The agenda for reform on this issue is made up of a whole range of possibilities .
29 A complete gene is then made up of a whole series of exons , which are actually strung together only when they are eventually read by the ‘ official ’ operating system that translates them into proteins .
30 Sigma consists of two dim stars , close to Aldebaran ; Delta ( 3.8 ) , makes up a pair with the fainter star 64 Tauri ( 4.8 ) ; and Theta is a naked-eye double , made up of a white star of magnitude 3.4 and a K-type orange companion of magnitude 3.8 .
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