Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [verb] up of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In complex businesses , these trends are not stable because they are made up of complex interactions of diverse circumstances . |
| 3 | They are made up of chopped leaves and grass cuttings . |
| 4 | This reveals that they are made up of thin lamellae , often lozenge shaped , sometimes oval , about 10 to 20 nm thick , depending on the temperature of crystallization . |
| 5 | They 're made up of small sites , they 're made up of windfall sites . |
| 6 | A rainbow seems like a miracle — it appears out of no-where , it forms a perfect arc — it 's made up of beautiful colours , always the same ones in just the same order — and it always mysteriously disappears . |
| 7 | The Pacific is unique in that it is made up of small island states with very limited resources and the way ahead is to work together . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If we look at a typical Midland deserted village site with the aid of air photographs and maps , we can see that it is made up of certain features which occur again and again on such sites , the most distinctive being the sunken holloways marking the courses of old roads and paths . |
| 10 | It is now known , however , that it is made up of basaltic rocks , derived indirectly from peridotite , and erupted by volcanic action along the ridge itself , building up the long submarine mountain range and giving rise to the relatively few volcanoes which poke their heads above sea level . |
| 11 | It is made up of coeval ignimbrites ( K/Ar date 4.65–6.7 Myr , from five dates over a 50-km section ) and a large batholith containing a variety of rock types but dominated by granite ( SiO 2 70% ) with an 40 Ar/ 36 Ar age of 5.180.05Myr . |
| 12 | Here , it is made up of light-coloured and dolomitised carbonate mudstones , interbedded with thin layers of laminated stromatolites ( Clark and Tallbacka 1980 ) . |
| 13 | A study of the fine structure of a spherulite shows that it is built up of fibrous sub-units , growth takes place by the formation of fibrils which spread outwards from the nucleus in bundles , into the surrounding amorphous phase . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It was made up of tiny dots . |
| 16 | Once more he was overcome with a strange feeling , but this he could recognise , for it was made up of unadulterated fear . |