Example sentences of "are [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 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |