Example sentences of "be made from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , where one would expect a large basin to have been made from sheet metal , it was instead cast with walls of amazing thinness . |
| 2 | ABOVE : Eclipse , by George Stubbs , reputedly the only painting of this famous horse to have been made from life . |
| 3 | Modern petrological studies have gone a long way towards answering this question : polished hard-rock axes seem to have been made from stone obtained from a limited number of outcrops . |
| 4 | For centuries the pot stills used to make malt whiskies have been made from copper , in traditional shapes which vary from distillery to distillery . |
| 5 | Apart from the bronze bolt , the other parts of the lock would have been made from iron , including a spring to hold the pins in place . |
| 6 | The timber steps illustrated have been made from Forest mini sleepers , which look like logs , but have two flat faces allowing them to be placed one on top of the other . |
| 7 | It was thought that Green took his large prepared copper plates out into the landscape and worked on them in front of the actual view , but when one looks at a print of a recognisable location the image is not reversed as would have been the case if a direct drawing onto the plate had been made from nature . |
| 8 | This was followed by construction from a series of concrete rings , 6ft in diameter , mortared together ; more recently , cesspools have been made from glass fibre ( glass reinforced plastic , GRP ) . |
| 9 | Afterwards , when ethylene became available on a large scale from oil refining processes — previously it had been made from alcohol — the price of the polymer dropped . |
| 10 | They range from 0.01 to 0.5mm in thickness and are made from copper , nickel or iron-nickel alloy depending on the application . |
| 11 | First , Max Perutz ( MRC , Cambridge ) described the pioneering work of Oswald Avery , proving that genes are made from DNA . |
| 12 | Most rucksacks are made from heavyweight nylon with a waterproof coating on the inside and often a water repellent treatment on the outer surface . |
| 13 | Until now electricity from solar cells has been much more expensive than that from conventional sources because the cells are made from silicon and other expensive materials . |
| 14 | Some sleeping bags are made from fibrepile which is not a filling as such . |
| 15 | Along with conventional bags with down or polyester fillings , some are made from fibrepile fabric . |
| 16 | Some wrapping papers are made from water hyacinths , sugar cane waste or jute waste . |
| 17 | The spouting water sprays add a touch of authenticity , and are quite edible as they are made from rice paper . |
| 18 | Go easy on the deck chairs though and only steam clean them if they are made from cotton or canvas . |
| 19 | The whistles are made from brass tubes and plates the pieces of which are silver-soldered in his home-based workshop near Llanberis . |
| 20 | They are made from wafer biscuits and cost £10.80 for a box of 120 . |
| 21 | All the instruments are made from glass capillary tubing . |
| 22 | ‘ Although we send brochures and personalised leaflets out to literally thousands of people , consuming large quantities of paper , all our paper supplies are made from timber from renewable forests . ’ |
| 23 | Most internal frames are made from aluminium strips bolted together and to get the best fit you should try to bed the frame to fit your own back shape . |
| 24 | They are made from sugar and should easily dissolve . |
| 25 | Pitch fibre pipes are made from waste paper and other fibres soaked in pitch . |
| 26 | Many specialist tins are made from tin plate or aluminium . |
| 27 | Apart from a large range of marbled papers sold in many different colours and tones , there are also papers that are made from plant material themselves , and so would be very interesting to use in a design . |
| 28 | The only information I can gather is that it is a custom guitar made in Japan , the serial number is B820170 , the body and neck are made from maple , and it has a black scratchplate and three single coil pickups . |
| 29 | This pattern occurs frequently due to factors such as the way in which meter readings for , say , electricity supply are made from house to house , i.e. not at random , or the effects of localized advertising campaigns on a larger file in which many unaffected records are stored . |
| 30 | Aluminium cans are made from bauxite dug up in tropical forests . |