Example sentences of "made up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He notes that any loss of earnings can usually be made up during the first ten years of work .
2 Consistent with the purpose of the paper , one third of a typical number is made up of the perennial feature " Around the Country " , with reports from the branches about their activities and other local social news .
3 The company , made up of the non-American waste disposal interest of Waste Management International Inc , earned £96.4m pre-tax last year .
4 One alternative would be that history may be made up of the multiple meanings of specific , particular histories — without their necessarily being in turn part of a larger meaning of an underlying Idea or force .
5 The interview is made up of the two sets of interrelated emotions — those of the adviser and those of the client .
6 Both body and clothing are made up of the black and the white — uncomplicated but striking — and her complexion shines like gold ( 3236 – 41 ; 3246 ; 3255 – 6 ) .
7 The Donaldson matter was petty and tiresome but much of office life was made up of the petty and tiresome .
8 ‘ It is largely made up of the petty squabbles of shop-keepers and the airy superiority of the ironmasters . ’
9 He added : ‘ The picture of politics which survives , however , is completely different , and is largely made up of the petty squabbles of shopkeepers and the airy superiority of the ironmasters . ’
10 Nevertheless , ‘ knowledges ’ are products like any others , and are thus the results of certain processes of production , made up of the usual elements .
11 A paradigm is made up of the general theoretical assumptions and laws and techniques for their application that the members of a particular scientific community adopt .
12 In the early 1980s , 80 per cent of agricultural exports were made up of the following items , in order of importance : coffee , sugar , soya beans , oil seed meal and oil-cake , cotton , cocoa , bananas , beef and live cattle , maize and wheat ( López Cordovez 1982 ) .
13 The crew of the train will be made up of the following people : Keith Dawson ( organiser of ‘ Vintage Train ’ ) ; .
14 In any given case the decision of the court will be made up of the following elements :
15 A typical data processing ( DP ) department of the 1960's would have been made up of the following components :
16 Deputies to the Federal Assembly , which is made up of the Federal Chamber ( 220 seats ) and the Chamber of Republics and Provinces ( 88 seats ) are elected by a multi-tiered system of communal assemblies , and serve for four years .
17 In addition , a prominent counter-melody is introduced ( itself largely made up of the small cell of our example ) .
18 A coalition of three opposition parties , made up of the Mongolian Democratic Party ( MDP ) , the Mongolian Party of National Progress ( MPNP ) and the Mongolian United Party ( MUP ) , received 17.5 per cent of the vote and only four seats .
19 Too often headteacher 's reports are made up of the dry dust of lists of attendance figures , class visits , building repairs , pupil numbers and details of resignations and appointments .
20 Prominent among these organizations is the Trilateral Commission , made up of the great and good from the United States , Europe and Japan , whose business is ‘ Elite Planning for World Management ’ ( see Holly Sklar , 1980 ) .
21 This was made up of the organic residues of farms , forestry , industry and domestic refuse .
22 The Service is made up of the Latin American sections of the international Catholic organisations for radio and television ( UNDA ) , press ( UCLAP ) and audio visuals ( OCIC ) .
23 The train will be the Ffestiniog 's Vintage Train , made up of the oldest vehicles on the railway , some dating back to the 1860's .
24 History , which can now no longer be considered a concept as such , is therefore made up of the incommensurable relation between these two disjunctive set-ups .
25 The Reaver Knights are commonly made up of the wildest and most headstrong sons of the noble houses .
26 The Reaver Knights are made up of the wildest and most headstrong sons of the noble houses .
27 The television-viewing public was made up of the older stay-at-homes , not the swinging exotics whose exploits filled the front pages of the newspapers .
28 For example , the family is made up of the interconnected roles of husband , father , wife , mother , son and daughter .
29 Later paradigms saw the entire universe as being made up of the same kinds of material substances .
30 They are all made up of the same shapes-triangles , squares and rectangles .
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