Example sentences of "made [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 We did decide that we should reduce the money that is received by Councillors , and so they were proposals that were made along with other proposals about reductions in members ' services .
2 If substantial public funds are to be made over to voluntary associations then , as Griffiths intimates , some form of audit ‘ becomes essential : and this raises the question of the independence of voluntary organisations , which is said to be one of their great virtues .
3 It was here that the Caroline reformers achieved nothing because the crown could not recapture the powers it had made over to local municipal oligarchs .
4 The next portion , now known as Chatham Maritime , was made over to English Industrial Estates Corporation .
5 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 .
6 Both plants and animals are made up of eukaryotic cells , although the first simple cell was the procaryotic type .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 Much discussion of the issue in the press masquerades as a ) , but is in reality made up of various combinations of the other three .
10 The whole hospital was made up of various bungalows which surrounded one newly built principal building .
11 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 .
12 Total organic carbon is made up of non-hazardous materials .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 Each day , the meal was made up of baked potatoes and either rice pudding , soup , hashed beans and vegetables or oatmeal porridge .
16 But the council is made up of powerful men — Saffarac , Valentir and others .
17 In complex businesses , these trends are not stable because they are made up of complex interactions of diverse circumstances .
18 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 .
19 The conversation is made up of unrelated anecdotes , people laughing , half-listening , half-not .
20 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 .
21 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 ) .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 The 580 acres are made up of landscaped hills and valleys , avenues , walks , lakes and cascades ; 37 of the original garden buildings survive .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 The units are 32 Battalion , made up of dissident Angolans and 31 Battalion , composed of Bushmen from Namibia and Angola .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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