Example sentences of "were [verb] up of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the conglomerates which were made up of a disparate collection of businesses have failed . |
| 2 | Either they were made up of a large number of bronze rods , hammered to shape and soldered together . |
| 3 | But even the grand measures had their component parts , were made up of a multitude of successes and failures : the outcome of the co-operative movement in Ajdabiya depended on a variety of judgements — by officials , by shopkeepers and by customers — and hence on the social relation which affected them . |
| 4 | Although at the time they were made up of an apparently infinite chain of familiar days , I can think of them now only as a whole . |
| 5 | In the early 1980s , 80 per cent of agricultural exports were made up of the following items , in order of importance : coffee , sugar , soya beans , oil seed meal and oil-cake , cotton , cocoa , bananas , beef and live cattle , maize and wheat ( López Cordovez 1982 ) . |
| 6 | But it is evident that the species is now a regular winter visitor on a large scale , although the data available to des Forges and Harber suggested that the winter flocks were made up of the breeding population , non-breeding birds and the young of the year , except in very cold weather ; this can not be so today , although cold weather influxes still occur . |