Example sentences of "be made [adv prt] of [noun] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Muscles are made up of fibres which have different mechanical properties , and two of the main groups of fibres are called fast twitch fibres and slow twitch fibres .
2 It also reveals that 18.9 per cent of households , 434 in all , are made up of people who have retired to the Dales and of these some 54 per cent previously lived outside Yorkshire .
3 This is particularly important where interview panels are made up of people who do not normally work together , and also where there are a lot of people who will take correspondingly longer to learn to work as a team .
4 This chapter will be concerned with the most straightforward kinds of pyroclastic deposits : those which are made up of fragments which have simply been shot up into the air and fallen back down again , so they are known as pyroclastic fall deposits .
5 Ritual sequences such as the Sinhalese wedding described above are made up of units which are used rather like the pieces in a game of dominoes .
6 This small group needs the authority to make decisions on behalf of organizations who hold the purse-strings and therefore must be made up of individuals who are trusted and respected within their own organizations .
7 ‘ People forget that the nucleus of our side — notably our pack — is made up of players who have come through the junior ranks . ’
8 This is made up of deputies who are either unattached or are only nominally members of two centrist groups , the Democratic Centre and the Block of Creative Forces .
9 The outer layer of the skin ( epidermis ) is made up of cells which are shed over a cycle of 28 days .
10 A status group is made up of individuals who are awarded a similar amount of social honour and therefore share the same status situation .
11 A second group is made up of people who work , or who could work if they chose to , almost full-time and full-year-round in the industry .
12 The finding is that roughly 25 per cent of Italy 's total dog population of around 3.5 million is made up of animals which , if they are not all precisely strays , are at least ‘ free-ranging ’ and not under immediate human supervision .
13 It began to seem that the entire storehouse was made up of substances which looked harmless and beautiful on the surface , but which changed and blurred and coalesced as you approached them .
14 He had this conviction that the world was made up of women who were successful and women who were failures — in other words , dressed up as men .
15 It was found that approximately 30 per cent of the map area was made up of polygons which did not agree with the initial map descriptions .
16 The sample was made up of people whom they judged would probably have been long-stay residents of Powick if that option had continued to be available .
17 But in some parishes it er had been useful for them to stand out because the parish council was made up of people who had grown old with parish priests and er it was a chance to make a new start .
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