Example sentences of "be [adv] make [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are all familiar with water , as our bodies are mostly made up of it , and it is the easiest thing to dowse for . |
| 2 | The INI files are mostly made up of lines like this : |
| 3 | Keith Richards tells with a mixture of jealousy and amazement the story that the guitar classes John Lee conducts at home are entirely made up of young girls . |
| 4 | When one considers the amount of time , effort and money involved in the preparation of those papers and the hearing of them it is , in my opinion , becoming essential to ensure that the number of frivolous appeals ( some of which are perhaps made out of ‘ cussedness ’ to cause the officers involved as much trouble as possible ) is reduced . |
| 5 | Well I 've spoken to Keith and Kim from B-TEC about some of this and er things are not as clear-cut as people are perhaps making out . |
| 6 | The first are the poorer urban dwellers — these are largely made up of junior office staff , workers in the retail and hotel sectors , petty retailers and petty commodity producers and the unemployed , old and sick . |
| 7 | His views on the rights of hereditary monarchy and episcopacy were those of Charles Leslie [ q.v. ] , whom he admired , but Earbery had none of his wit or power of reasoning : his numerous works are largely made up of quantities of historical narrative , related with a strong ideological bias , often laced with personal abuse . |
| 8 | Pension funds can further diversify their portfolios by investing in a spread of these units across different managed funds ( insurance companies have in fact set up specialised managed funds that are largely made up of specific investments , to allow such diversification across managed funds by pension funds ) . |
| 9 | At the moment I am just making up the numbers . |
| 10 | Often ill-informed and repetitive , the debate has tended to ignore the interests of the client and has frequently been conducted by those whose minds are already made up on the issue . |
| 11 | Dominant social elites are not made up simply of capitalists , but also include managers and professionals , whose power rests upon their capacity to exclude others from their property , whether material or intellectual . |
| 12 | By the way they 're also made up for the following week as well in case , if it 's Tuesday night , oh , let me just look at next week , what have I got ? |
| 13 | Team sizes can be varied but they are always made up of an odd number of competitors . |
| 14 | These are usually made up of a central pit or cup , surrounded by one ring or concentric rings or spiral turns . |
| 15 | ( d ) Private customers — the number of these is small , and are mainly made up of staff members of the Bank and some UK organisations . |
| 16 | Loosely-woven textured varieties are often made up into a heavier type of unlined sheer curtain . |
| 17 | The idea is that large , complex systems are often made up of a single , simple shape repeated over and again . |
| 18 | Now I 'm against that and I 'm therefore against I regret to say what the Noble Lord , Lord said , and I 'm extremely sorry to see that he has moved on this particular matter er because th there is no case , that has been really made out for this . |
| 19 | Your monthly payments are solely made up of interest : you do not repay a penny of the capital sum . |
| 20 | The difference between a ‘ Wilton ’ and an ‘ Axminster ’ carpet , both of which are now made by about fifty different companies in Britain , is in the type of weave . |
| 21 | Glaswegian clubbers were a bit slow at first to take advantage of the late opening hours , says Stuart , but are now making up for lost time . |
| 22 | Fitness was , as ever , a big problem and is a deficiency which will not be easily made up during the Championship . |
| 23 | New sashes and vents can be easily made up , or in some cases bought ready-made . |
| 24 | With × 7 and × 8.5 its shape is not readily identifiable , but with × 12 the outline becomes more definite , and with × 20 the North American shape can be distinctly made out . |
| 25 | So you must n't , not only must n't you worry you 've got to be perfectly made up and have a super figure you know while you 're making tanks or or whatever . |
| 26 | I 'm really making up bits now , making the picture look how I want it to look — dark on light , light on dark — not forgetting to look in the mirror ! |
| 27 | The projected budget deficit of Epounds 6,900 million ( approximately 8 per cent of gross domestic product-GDP ) would be partially made up by savings of Epounds 6,200 million , leaving a net deficit of Epounds 660 million . |
| 28 | In the original portrait it could be vaguely made out as a kind of craggy wild place ; in this photographic reproduction it was no more than thickenings and glimmerings in the black . |
| 29 | Thus , over the course of two or three nights Stages 3,4 and REM sleep are almost made up , while Stage 2 sleep is not . |
| 30 | Cleansing and re-applying make-up can irritate the skin if you 've been fully made up during the day . |