Example sentences of "made up [prep] [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 Yeast is made up of millions of tiny fungus cells which literally go berserk when confronted by a liquid rich with sugars .
5 I mean the world 's made up of all different coloured people — why should n't we have different faces and all ?
6 These different groups , made up of all those who are in a similar position in the housing market , are called housing classes .
7 But the greater proportion of goods traffic was not carried in specials but in ordinary merchandise trains , made up of all kinds of vehicles containing an assortment of commodities , raw and manufactured .
8 Another reason why the Greeks may have chosen the number 360 is because they thought the year was made up of 360 days and that the sun went round the earth once a year .
9 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 .
10 Much discussion of the issue in the press masquerades as a ) , but is in reality made up of various combinations of the other three .
11 The whole hospital was made up of various bungalows which surrounded one newly built principal building .
12 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 .
13 Total organic carbon is made up of non-hazardous materials .
14 The Local Police Authority ( made up of twelve elected councillors and six appointed magistrates ) is responsible for maintaining an adequate police force ( i.e. in terms of finance , equipment , accommodation and personnel ) , and making arrangements for local consultation .
15 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 .
16 In these schools ' sets the 0–17 score band contain 1.1 boys to each girl , but the higher score band ( 18–29 ) was made up of 2.4 boys to each girl .
17 The full course last from January to November 1993 , but it is made up of six separate units .
18 The test is made up of six subtests covering the following areas :
19 Each Advanced Certificates is made up of six Higher National Unit credits , covering engineering principles , advanced technology , and applied technology .
20 The screen is made up of six windows , each of which can display the current activity of one handler controlling one media unit .
21 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 .
22 The night duty was made up of nineteen areas , they made the nineteen beats , and er I had to go with older policemen learning each of the beats .
23 Each day , the meal was made up of baked potatoes and either rice pudding , soup , hashed beans and vegetables or oatmeal porridge .
24 A whole orange = 100% ( that is , it 's made up of 100 parts ) A whole orange cut into two equal parts becomes two lots of 50 parts .
25 But the council is made up of powerful men — Saffarac , Valentir and others .
26 In complex businesses , these trends are not stable because they are made up of complex interactions of diverse circumstances .
27 The working groups , made up of 38 delegates and 38 advisers , focused on five areas , namely the creation of a climate for free political activity ; the constitution-making process and principles for a new constitution ; transitional arrangements ; the future of the " independent " bantustans ( Bophuthatswana , Ciskei , Transkei and Venda ) ; and time-frames and the implementation of decisions .
28 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 .
29 The conversation is made up of unrelated anecdotes , people laughing , half-listening , half-not .
30 A typical travel agent 's income is made up of two-thirds from holiday traffic and one-third from business traffic .
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