Example sentences of "make [adv prt] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the largest of these was a group made up of assorted Yugoslav military formations , mainly Slovenes and Serbs , who had retreated over the Harawanken Alps from Slovenia on 7 May , together with German units , the White Russian Schutzkorps , camp followers and civilian refugees . |
| 2 | Both plants and animals are made up of eukaryotic cells , although the first simple cell was the procaryotic type . |
| 3 | Where most saw atoms with void space between them in the manner of Newton and Dalton , Faraday by the 1840s believed that matter was made up of mere point centres of force . |
| 4 | The transformation is made up of spiritual , intellectual and emotional elements which grow together into an autonomous state of mind : Sooner or later this attitude of autonomy expresses itself in doubt . |
| 5 | Much discussion of the issue in the press masquerades as a ) , but is in reality made up of various combinations of the other three . |
| 6 | The whole hospital was made up of various bungalows which surrounded one newly built principal building . |
| 7 | The remaining er , eleven erm , on the delegation were made up of General Secretary , Deputy General Secretary , elected national officers and a few senior staff . |
| 8 | Total organic carbon is made up of non-hazardous materials . |
| 9 | Although it is mostly made up of perennial plants which will come up fresh in spring , there are one or two evergreen shrubs added for structure : an upright rosemary and a couple of spiky yuccas . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Each day , the meal was made up of baked potatoes and either rice pudding , soup , hashed beans and vegetables or oatmeal porridge . |
| 12 | But the council is made up of powerful men — Saffarac , Valentir and others . |
| 13 | In complex businesses , these trends are not stable because they are made up of complex interactions of diverse circumstances . |
| 14 | Where it is suspected that a piece is made up of unrelated fragments , the composition can sometimes be studied to sort out which fragments are original , or at least which ones belong together . |
| 15 | The conversation is made up of unrelated anecdotes , people laughing , half-listening , half-not . |
| 16 | If social life is seen as no longer ideally ordered but as made up of every-day material practices , and painting is part and parcel of social life , then painting should be made up of similar practices . |
| 17 | The international Consultative Committee for the cultural programme of the Council of Europe , made up of European museum directors , chose the exhibition to be the next in the series of twenty-one shows which has included ‘ The French Revolution and Europe ’ , also held in Paris ( 1989 ) , ‘ The Portuguese discoveries and Renaissance Europe ’ ( Lisbon , 1983 ) and ‘ Gothic art in Europe ’ ( 1968 ) . |
| 18 | If the Althusserian mode of production is made up of differential times and histories , ‘ a complex ‘ intersection ’ of the different times , rhythms , turnovers , etc. ’ , then each element can not express the whole because the whole is only accessible as a concept , which is precisely not expressed at all . |
| 19 | I then told him it was the Sun and I explained all about the Sun being a star and how it was made up of hot gases , and it was in the Galaxy , and our galaxy was only one of lots of galaxies . |
| 20 | The distinction is an important one : books on a shelf may be in poor condition , and may indeed deteriorate in their locations ( particularly when they are made up of self-destructive acidic paper ) , but their deterioration will be very much slower than if they are transported to a reading room for consultation by a reader . |
| 21 | The 580 acres are made up of landscaped hills and valleys , avenues , walks , lakes and cascades ; 37 of the original garden buildings survive . |
| 22 | It is made up of volcanic formations deposited in a north-west/south-east direction , the plateau of Paúl da Serra being the main core . |
| 23 | This is because the non-singular matrix may be regarded as made up of elementary operations , and these can not change the rank of a non-vanishing minor of order r . |
| 24 | The units are 32 Battalion , made up of dissident Angolans and 31 Battalion , composed of Bushmen from Namibia and Angola . |
| 25 | The starting point of Poulantzas ' theory is thus a view of capitalist society as a bipartite whole , made up of contradictory structures and class practices . |
| 26 | The Macrory Report favoured a move ( away from elected county councils ) towards area boards , made up of appointed experts and other ‘ public-spirited individuals ’ with only a minority representation of elected councillors . |
| 27 | Between 1950 and the early 1970s the sector grew by just under 10 per cent and the increase was mainly made up of financial and commercial services . |
| 28 | Once more he was overcome with a strange feeling , but this he could recognise , for it was made up of unadulterated fear . |
| 29 | That state sector has been made up of nationalized industries , and of extensive welfare services provided on the basis of need , and not on the basis of the ability to pay . |
| 30 | Instead of thinking of society as made up of simple parts , we must think of it as a collection of wholes which together make up one ‘ complex whole ’ . |