Example sentences of "be [adv] make up " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | At the moment I am just making up the numbers . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | Team sizes can be varied but they are always made up of an odd number of competitors . |
| 12 | These are usually made up of a central pit or cup , surrounded by one ring or concentric rings or spiral turns . |
| 13 | ( d ) Private customers — the number of these is small , and are mainly made up of staff members of the Bank and some UK organisations . |
| 14 | Loosely-woven textured varieties are often made up into a heavier type of unlined sheer curtain . |
| 15 | The idea is that large , complex systems are often made up of a single , simple shape repeated over and again . |
| 16 | Your monthly payments are solely made up of interest : you do not repay a penny of the capital sum . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Fitness was , as ever , a big problem and is a deficiency which will not be easily made up during the Championship . |
| 19 | New sashes and vents can be easily made up , or in some cases bought ready-made . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ! |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Cleansing and re-applying make-up can irritate the skin if you 've been fully made up during the day . |
| 25 | I stop to give a lift to two young warriors who are fully made up in ochre topped by head-dresses . |
| 26 | Whilst Roadburg may underestimate the size of the middle-class and female components of the British soccer crowd , he is correct to emphasise that the terraces are chiefly made up of working-class males and that , of this group , it is the youth segment which most often engages in violence . |
| 27 | Although curtains are sometimes made up in this fabric it is not always satisfactory as it can be rather stiff . |
| 28 | I saw a Mummy examined that had been embalmed for 2,000 years ; the embalmer had taken out all the Viscera of the head , Thorax and Abdomen and cut all the flesh off the bones , and the cavities of the Thorax & Abdomen were filled up with Tar , Pitch & c and the form of the leg , Thigh & c were altogether made up of linen Rags dipp 'd in Tar , Pitch , & c so that I have an Opinion that they were allow 'd to carry the dead Body home by pretending to embalm it to preserve the Flesh & c , but you see they either buried or burnt the Flesh : this art always ‘ till lately appeared to me ridiculous as I know how soon putrefaction took place after Death ; since that time I have often thought it would be pleasing if we could fall upon a method of preserving dead Bodies & I thought that mankind in general would wish to have the Bodies of their Friends & c Preserved . |
| 29 | They were mostly made up of their families . |
| 30 | We have suffered from the same thing as the other two er Abalance have said today of money being used from our surplus to provide for redundancy and erm i it 's been exacerbated by money being available from the people who are made , made redundant , going to the company and swelling their balance sheets , while all the cost side of it comes out of the pension fund and that has caused a lot of ill-feeling particularly from the older pensioners who have seen years of inflation when their pensions were not made up to the same extent . |