Example sentences of "were make [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The train sets were made up with the following types of coaches :
2 Solutions of 100 mM drug in PBS/10% FCS were made up with the concentration of NaCl reduced to maintain osmolality .
3 Most of the conglomerates which were made up of a disparate collection of businesses have failed .
4 Either they were made up of a large number of bronze rods , hammered to shape and soldered together .
5 But even the grand measures had their component parts , were made up of a multitude of successes and failures : the outcome of the co-operative movement in Ajdabiya depended on a variety of judgements — by officials , by shopkeepers and by customers — and hence on the social relation which affected them .
6 Although at the time they were made up of an apparently infinite chain of familiar days , I can think of them now only as a whole .
7 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 ) .
8 But it is evident that the species is now a regular winter visitor on a large scale , although the data available to des Forges and Harber suggested that the winter flocks were made up of the breeding population , non-breeding birds and the young of the year , except in very cold weather ; this can not be so today , although cold weather influxes still occur .
9 Erm the tools were made up in a kit and er every time there was a work study exercise done on a job , er the tools were all numbered and laid aside and registered for that particular item .
10 There were only half a dozen sergeants in the mess , but the numbers were made up by the civilian engineers who worked on the project .
11 Substantial payments were made out of the Forest revenues for these and other purposes relating to the maintenance and upkeep of the castle .
12 However , speaking to Hot Press 's George Byrne at a later date , Johnny Marr attempted to dispel the controversy surrounding Gannon : ‘ Things were made out of the situation which we did n't intend .
13 Whether payments were made out of the temple 's revenues to sustain the king 's household is not known .
14 The counterfeit cheques , for sums between £20 and £60 , were made out over a five-month period from March last year .
15 I think that year we were making up for the limitations of the one before .
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