Example sentences of "be made of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know that a lot of people think I am made of steel . |
| 2 | His head was full of sentences he was going to write to Hilary when he had the time to put pen to paper : I may remind you that I never asked you for a penny towards the summer gas bill … do you think I am made of stone ? … surely I deserve better consideration … who listened for hours when you had that disagreement at Bromley over Fortescue upstaging you in She Stoops to Conquer … have you forgotten that it was I , when your mother had her second stroke , who travelled with her in the ambulance and went back on the bus to collect her plaster replica of the Sacred Heart ? |
| 3 | Use has also been made of Russell 's work on the teaching of civics in Northern Ireland schools . |
| 4 | According to David Hume , the subject of the next chapter , Berkeley 's account of abstract ideas was ‘ one of the greatest and most valuable discoveries that has been made of late years in the republic of letters ’ . |
| 5 | Considering the mess Hollywood might have been made of Triumph Of The Spirit ( Rocky in the Death Camps ? ) , we should be grateful this true life biopic about a Greek boxer imprisoned in Auschwitz and forced to fight for his captors ' entertainment has ended up the way it has dignified but dull , lacking any real historical punch . |
| 6 | Much has been made of the fact that two fifteenth-century kings , James I and James III , came spectacularly to grief . |
| 7 | Understandably , much has been made of Henry VIII 's offer of a pension of £1000 to the pro-English and Protestant earl of Glencairn in 1544 and of the money to be sent from France for Mary to distribute to Arran , Beaton and others in 1545 . |
| 8 | Little fuss has been made of the director 's original notion of casting Michael Jackson as Peter , but Spielberg has clearly missed the boat in refusing to commission Robert Smith , front man and only constant factor of The Cure , to compose the score . |
| 9 | In this paper particular mention has been made of the application of Cognitive–Behaviour Therapy to depression . |
| 10 | Information gathering should not take place until a careful assessment has been made of the management tasks and decisions which require information . |
| 11 | Mention has been made of M. Spencer Ell the auditor , who gave generously of his services and bequeathed the Club a substantial legacy . |
| 12 | Detailed studies have been made of the area from a natural-history point of view . |
| 13 | Much has been made of the beneficence of French rule in Lebanon ; the economy was revitalised , Beirut harbour enlarged , and a network of major roads built to link the country 's principal cities . |
| 14 | Much has been made of the fact that San Francisco emerged relatively unscathed from Loma Prieta . |
| 15 | Considerable use has been made of actuality , especially in BBC regional weekly , review programmes , and there has been a reasonable amount of committee coverage . |
| 16 | Not only has significant use been made of committee matter in broadcast programmes , but this has spanned a wide range of committee activity . |
| 17 | Some use has been made of a control suggested by Kurtz ( 1955 ) , in which the subjects received pre-training on a same — different task . |
| 18 | I am sure you are as appalled as I am at the use that has been made of the private letter of a schoolboy to his parents , but it is certainly a lesson for you in the ways of the world . ’ |
| 19 | Much has been made of the possibilities of converting barns for light industrial use . |
| 20 | Angelo Heilprin , an American geologist who visited the scene a few weeks later and wrote a book about the tragedy , described ‘ twisted bars of iron , great masses of roof sheeting wrapped like cloth about posts upon which they had been flung , and iron girders looped and festooned as if they had been made of rope ’ . |
| 21 | They were so still that they might have been made of granite . |
| 22 | Various criticisms have been made of McClellan 's ideas , and some of these are reported in his chapter ‘ Critique and counter-critique ’ . |
| 23 | Another member of the Pocket family , Sarah , ‘ a little dry brown corrugated old woman , with a small face that might have been made of walnut shells , and a large mouth like a cat 's without the whiskers ’ , toadies to Miss Havisham in the hope of a legacy , but is eventually left , according to Joe Gargery , only ‘ twenty-five pound per annium for to buy pills , on account of being bilious ’ . |
| 24 | What use has been made of the formerly marshy area between these two parts of the city ? |
| 25 | In many respects the management of GEAR has been ineffective : goals have been defined too broadly , simply to ensure consensus ; organizations have been assimilated within GEAR for purely cosmetic purposes ; power has been too diffuse ; and too much has been made of environmental improvements when the local economy has been subject to dramatic changes and unemployment has risen substantially . |
| 26 | Similar use has been made of the late Georgian mansion , Malone House , and has proved very successful . |
| 27 | Most of this work has been done using a standard binocular light microscope with variable ×8 to ×40 magnification , but extensive use has also been made of the scanning electron microscope . |
| 28 | It was reported that an offer had been made of leasehold premises in Oxford Street , between Rathbone Place and Newman Street , lately occupied by Mr Burr , stable-keeper , consisting of a dwelling house , yard , nine coach houses , 14 stables containing 51 stalls , and a covered ride . |
| 29 | Has any study been made of a similar problem ? |
| 30 | Use has been made of CAI for training at the Library of Congress in the use of the SCORPIO ( Subject Content Oriented Retriever for Processing Information Online ) and MUMS ( the Multiple-Use MARC System ) . |