Example sentences of "made [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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1 | The pull was made on to a slightly uphill gradient and into the wind , in spite of this a record breaking 100 metres was reached in 40.8 seconds at a speed of 4.5 mph . |
2 | The thieves also made off with a Stihl chainsaw valued at £150 . |
3 | A film is made up of a series of shots that may be photographed over various periods of time ; a ‘ take ’ that may have originally started out as three or four minutes in length may eventually be edited to a ten second shot . |
4 | After all , if you can borrow ( or exchange your existing UK mortgage where you are paying rates at the highest level in real terms for over a century ) for a Swiss franc mortgage at around 9.5 per cent , a mark mortgage at just under 10 per cent , an Ecu mortgage ( Ecu is the European currency unit which is made up of a ‘ basket ’ of 10 currencies including sterling ) at about 10 per cent or a Japanese yen mortgage at just under 8 per cent , why not do so ? |
5 | Defending the family as the centre of human life and the village as the basic social unit Eliot expresses his preference for London over other cities since it remains characteristically made up of a collection of villages whose borders touch , each maintaining its own local character . |
6 | Most of the conglomerates which were made up of a disparate collection of businesses have failed . |
7 | The Situationist Scrapbook includes only two synoptical essays , the rest being made up of a selection of documents produced in various parts of Europe and Britain from the fifties to the eighties , some of which predate the founding of the Situationist International ( henceforth the ‘ SI' ) . |
8 | Cork is made up of a myriad of tiny cells , each imprisoning a tiny pocket of air . |
9 | Most hunts are made up of a complete cross-section of society , the only qualification being an ability to ride . |
10 | Britain 's invisible earnings , which are made up of a surplus on things like insurance and banking offset by government contributions to the European Community and overseas aid , are now projected to be about £2,670million in 1989 , less than half the £6,100million total earned in 1988 . |
11 | Either they were made up of a large number of bronze rods , hammered to shape and soldered together . |
12 | The infill of the cave is made up of a wide variety of materials , from silts to large stones , and the radioactive content of these materials is similarly variable . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | Motivation is an ‘ event ’ in itself — motivation is made up of a number of factors of which the most important are the perceived value of the outcome to the individual and the correlation between that outcome and the effort necessary to achieve it . |
15 | The trilobite eye was of a compound type , and each lens was made up of a calcite crystal . |
16 | And if the roof is made up of a series of roof trusses , these should all be joined up by timbers running the length of the roof to prevent a ‘ domino ’ kind of collapse . |
17 | At an early stage in development the human face is made up of a series of bumps , which looks quite grotesque , and there is little hint of the face that will emerge . |
18 | There is a sheet of cells covering the tooth germ which is made up of a loose mass of cells . |
19 | The DNA molecule is made up of a sequence of four basic units — nucleotides — strung together . |
20 | The migrating cells may be made up of a mixture of all the different cell types in immature form , that go to all the sites and a particular type survives only if it arrives at an appropriate site — a sort of cell selection . |
21 | Inactivation of the X chromosome is random so that the early embryo is made up of a mixture of cells in which one or other of the X chromosomes is inactivated . |
22 | When a thin section of a basalt is examined under a microscope , it can be seen to be made up of a closely-felted mass of interlocking needle-like crystals of feldspar , a millimetre or so long , with a scattering of more colourful tiny crystals of olivine and pyroxene and some black opaque specks of iron oxides . |
23 | The rig with the link-leger , made up of a ½oz bomb and a swivel ( see Fig. 3 on page 61 ) . |
24 | These are made up of a core of non-polar lipids ( triglyceride and cholesterol esters ) with polar lipids ( phospholipids , free cholesterol and apoproteins ) located on the outer part of the macromolecules ( Galton , et al , 1982 ) . |
25 | Interactionists would question that implication , and argue that they are made up of a plurality of values and norms , which may often conflict . |
26 | Multi- stage sampling can be used when the population is made up of a number of sub-units . |
27 | Instead they will be made up of a small professional core supplemented by part-timers plus a number of small firms to which they will contract out work . |
28 | The marginal platform of the Z1 Carbonate is made up of a lower unit of light-coloured , bioturbated and fossiliferous carbonate mudstones , and an upper unit of reefs which pass laterally into oolitic and pelletoidal grainstones ( Fig. 7 ) . |
29 | The Stinkschiefer is made up of a thin unit of dark , laminated , organic-rich carbonate mudstones . |
30 | Another type of date code is made up of a number and a row of dots , eg |