Example sentences of "be [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The first are the poorer urban dwellers — these are largely made up of junior office staff , workers in the retail and hotel sectors , petty retailers and petty commodity producers and the unemployed , old and sick . |
| 3 | Pension funds can further diversify their portfolios by investing in a spread of these units across different managed funds ( insurance companies have in fact set up specialised managed funds that are largely made up of specific investments , to allow such diversification across managed funds by pension funds ) . |
| 4 | Disabled housewives in particular had been totally left out of previous schemes . |
| 5 | Hypotheses seem to be effortlessly improvised out of thin air , the resulting theory giving the distinct impression of being a rather facile extemporisation . |
| 6 | ‘ For some children it would give them the opportunity to wreak mayhem , while other , more sensitive children would be deeply affected out of all proportion to what they had done . |
| 7 | This is to counter the transfer of assets through a newly acquired ‘ surplus ACT ’ company under the no gain/no loss rule in s 171 , TCGA 1992 , which are then sold out of that company , thus eliminating or reducing the taxable gain ( s 245B ) . |
| 8 | Whilst Roadburg may underestimate the size of the middle-class and female components of the British soccer crowd , he is correct to emphasise that the terraces are chiefly made up of working-class males and that , of this group , it is the youth segment which most often engages in violence . |
| 9 | The reports said that the bandit groups were largely made up of demobilized soldiers . |
| 10 | But the appeal of the romantic movement does not explain why those who were not party to it , such as Michael Faraday , who was a visionary and wrote beautifully , have been completely written out of conventional histories of 19th century Britain , as if he ( and David Brewster and Thomas Henry Huxley and the rest ) were just peripheral figures , keeping things ticking along so that statesmen could make grand decisions and the widening of human understanding could be left to poets . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | His ingenious situation concerns very small homunculi from space , of the order of magnitude of body cells , who enter a human being in large numbers and colonize him to such an extent that he is eventually made up of small conscious entities . |
| 13 | Such an equation is basically made up of two parts : viz which indicates that business conditions are good , and which indicates business conditions are poor . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's all simulated out of woven soya protein . ’ |
| 15 | The reality of women 's situation is daily constructed out of these attitudes : women are , in part , the way they are because of the way they are thought to be . |
| 16 | The story is largely made up of legendary motifs , biblical recollections and Christian hostility ; it is after all meant to explain how the Christians took over a Jewish synagogue in Antioch which preserved , according to another source , the mantle of Moses , the surviving fragments of the Law tables , the keys of the Ark and other treasures . |
| 17 | The code for a particular protein is first copied by a process known as transcription into a complementary molecule , messenger-RNA , which is also made up of four nucleotides . |
| 18 | This story is really made up of two stories : A How Rima caught and caged the cassowary B How the Bower-bird tricked the Cassowary . |
| 19 | A draw is now made out of all the entries received each month to select the winning hole-in-one and we will then present the winner with two cases of Wolfschmidt Kummel . |
| 20 | But again , what is often left out of such accounts of the unconscious , even as it is invoked as the prime destabilizer , is the importance of the perversions in precisely this respect : Freud insisted that what is operative from within the unconscious , producing this very instability , is repressed perversion . |
| 21 | However , these flows may be ultimately recycled into the domestic circular flow because governments invariably spend what they raise in taxation , because expenditure on investment goods is frequently financed out of current saving , and because other countries often spend on domestically produced goods and services at the same time as we purchase their products . |
| 22 | Our original vector is then made up of these constituent vectors just as our quantum mechanical states were composed of combinations of other states . |
| 23 | David 's collection is primarily made up of one colour , cream , which you can mix with whatever you like . |
| 24 | All functions which draw on public resources ( and most of the work by ‘ free organizations ’ is heavily subsidized out of public funds ) require a legal basis for their legitimate operation , and this also applies when statutory responsibilities are delegated to non-statutory services . |
| 25 | A Landsat MSS image is therefore made up of 2342 scan lines , giving the image a size of 185 x 185 km on the ground . |
| 26 | State newspapers are therefore funded out of public money , and there have been attempts to follow the example of the Daily Times , funded from the profits made out of various commercial activities . |
| 27 | The whole structure was thus made up of crystalline regions imbedded randomly in a continuous amorphous matrix . |
| 28 | The committee was largely made up of Roman catholic clergy , and they clearly opposed the appointment on the grounds that a protestant could not be trusted to safeguard the catholic morals of her charges in her purchase and loaning of books . |
| 29 | Their community was largely made up of American slaves who had fled across the border to freedom in a British territory . |
| 30 | In those days a new house was usually constructed out of wooden hut sections of which there was a plentiful supply as most of the troops stationed here in the war lived in wooden prefabricated buildings and when they left Orkney the buildings were dismantled and then sold . |