Example sentences of "is make [adv prt] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A film is made up of a series of shots that may be photographed over various periods of time ; a ‘ take ’ that may have originally started out as three or four minutes in length may eventually be edited to a ten second shot . |
| 2 | After all , if you can borrow ( or exchange your existing UK mortgage where you are paying rates at the highest level in real terms for over a century ) for a Swiss franc mortgage at around 9.5 per cent , a mark mortgage at just under 10 per cent , an Ecu mortgage ( Ecu is the European currency unit which is made up of a ‘ basket ’ of 10 currencies including sterling ) at about 10 per cent or a Japanese yen mortgage at just under 8 per cent , why not do so ? |
| 3 | Cork is made up of a myriad of tiny cells , each imprisoning a tiny pocket of air . |
| 4 | The infill of the cave is made up of a wide variety of materials , from silts to large stones , and the radioactive content of these materials is similarly variable . |
| 5 | Motivation is an ‘ event ’ in itself — motivation is made up of a number of factors of which the most important are the perceived value of the outcome to the individual and the correlation between that outcome and the effort necessary to achieve it . |
| 6 | And if the roof is made up of a series of roof trusses , these should all be joined up by timbers running the length of the roof to prevent a ‘ domino ’ kind of collapse . |
| 7 | At an early stage in development the human face is made up of a series of bumps , which looks quite grotesque , and there is little hint of the face that will emerge . |
| 8 | There is a sheet of cells covering the tooth germ which is made up of a loose mass of cells . |
| 9 | The DNA molecule is made up of a sequence of four basic units — nucleotides — strung together . |
| 10 | Inactivation of the X chromosome is random so that the early embryo is made up of a mixture of cells in which one or other of the X chromosomes is inactivated . |
| 11 | Multi- stage sampling can be used when the population is made up of a number of sub-units . |
| 12 | The marginal platform of the Z1 Carbonate is made up of a lower unit of light-coloured , bioturbated and fossiliferous carbonate mudstones , and an upper unit of reefs which pass laterally into oolitic and pelletoidal grainstones ( Fig. 7 ) . |
| 13 | The Stinkschiefer is made up of a thin unit of dark , laminated , organic-rich carbonate mudstones . |
| 14 | Another type of date code is made up of a number and a row of dots , eg |
| 15 | Like all enzymes it is a protein and like some it is made up of a number of polypeptide subunits ( so forming a ‘ complex ’ ) . |
| 16 | A message is made up of a fixed number of time-frames , and during each time-frame either f0 is transmitted to represent the digit ‘ 0 ’ , or f1 is transmitted to represent the other binary digit ‘ 1 ’ . |
| 17 | It is made up of a number of bones ( vertebrae ) which are placed one on top of another . |
| 18 | Perhaps we can say that capitalist equilibrium is made up of a series of moments of dis-equilibria . |
| 19 | A particularly striking combination is made up of a very dark , bronze-leaved phormium next to the pure white flowers of Physostegia virginiana ‘ Alba ’ which is one of the easiest of all late summer border plants , even though it seems to be out of fashion at the moment . |
| 20 | Each item is made up of a plate displaying four pictures , three of which are distractors . |
| 21 | A legal system is not a monolith , but is made up of a variety of legal ‘ arenas ’ in which many different ‘ legal languages ’ are spoken , and while some of these arenas may well be prepared to listen to the presentation of a problem in one jurisprudential language , others might reject it completely ( Ladeur , 1984 ; Sciolla , 1983 ; Dunsire , 1978 ) . |
| 22 | An ability is made up of a repertoire of skills and is thus a higher level skill . |
| 23 | If certain forms of history stress continuity , try to account for change , the history of science by contrast must be disjointed , for it is made up of a series of corrections in which the errors of the past have to be simply discarded . |
| 24 | Locate the stars 59 , 58 and 56 ; the cluster lies near 56 , which is made up of a pair . |
| 25 | The cluster is made up of a small quadrilateral which is distinctive enough , and is very characteristic with × 20 . |
| 26 | As Amsterdam is made up of a criss-crossed network of canals , one of the best ways to get around the city is by boat . |
| 27 | Business Direct is made up of a number of different services , each designed to smooth your way throughout the world . |
| 28 | It is long ( perhaps 50 to 100 bits ) , and is made up of a series of short encoded fields specifying gates to be opened and control signals to be transmitted . |
| 29 | And protein is made up of a number of what , can you remember ? |
| 30 | In the old card game ‘ Happy Families ’ , every family involved is made up of a father , mother and two children . |