Example sentences of "[noun sg] was made [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The beginning of this century produced phenomena which equally emphatically showed that light was made up of tiny particles . |
| 3 | The motel was made up of separate cabins wide-spaced and private among trees — but more to the point the cabin had its own phone extension and twin beds . |
| 4 | The floor was made up of dark red hexagonal tiles touching at their points , separated by triangles of a deep chestnut colour . |
| 5 | Even later on , in the medieval period , when the downlands were indeed grass-covered grazing areas , the generally wide ‘ zone ’ of communication was made up of countless trackways criss-crossing each other , quite unlike what survives today . |
| 6 | They had economic power because they had control of the family money ; and they had psychological power because the entire outside world was made up of similar families ( in East Africa the Africans were socially invisible to Asians ) which respected and supported the concept of hierarchy . |
| 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 whole hospital was made up of various bungalows which surrounded one newly built principal building . |
| 9 | Each day , the meal was made up of baked potatoes and either rice pudding , soup , hashed beans and vegetables or oatmeal porridge . |
| 10 | The rest of the estate was made up of other bond settlements , each with its own infield/ outfield system and dependent on the caput . |