Example sentences of "[was/were] make [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her eyes were made up with heavy black eyeliner , her mouth was a deep red rosebud . |
| 2 | Because of the accident that , in the early days , a high proportion of the best anthropological field research wan carried out in societies which were made up of exogamous unilineal descent groups , many textbooks give the impression that unilineal descent is the normal pattern in primitive societies and hence that the distinction between kinship ( of common substance ) and affinity is normally clear-out and unambiguous . |
| 3 | The next portion , now known as Chatham Maritime , was made over to English Industrial Estates Corporation . |
| 4 | The floor was made up of dark red hexagonal tiles touching at their points , separated by triangles of a deep chestnut colour . |
| 5 | Until 1892 Townsend 's practice was made up of minor domestic and ecclesiastical work , but in that year he won the competition for the design of the Bishopsgate Institute , the first of the three outstanding public buildings that were to make his reputation . |