Example sentences of "[adv prt] of a [noun] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Situationist Scrapbook includes only two synoptical essays , the rest being made up of a selection of documents produced in various parts of Europe and Britain from the fifties to the eighties , some of which predate the founding of the Situationist International ( henceforth the ‘ SI' ) . |
| 3 | Each spreadsheet page is made up of a grid of columns and rows . |
| 4 | My face seemed to be made up of a mass of needles or electrical impulses . ’ |
| 5 | My face seemed to be made up of a mass of needles or spikes or electrical impulses . |
| 6 | Interactionists would question that implication , and argue that they are made up of a plurality of values and norms , which may often conflict . |
| 7 | Imagine a hollow tube made up of a layer of cells just one cell thick with contractile filaments located near the outer surface . |
| 8 | Well I think the the overall housing figures which were contained in the approved structure plan , made up of a range of sites and allocations . |
| 9 | Thus there is no evidence as yet for any imaginative creation , development and writing up of a range of stories within the English fabliau corpus . |
| 10 | Cell walls are made up of a variety of substances of which only one , cellulose , is truly fibrous in the sense of being filamentous or threadlike . |
| 11 | What they had said was at the end of the war they aimed at a safe and lasting peace , and to obtain that they demanded a setting up of a League of Nations . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | We 're not a , our our physical body 's not made up of a multitude of hands or a multitude of feet there are feet , and the feet has one function , the hand has another . |
| 14 | In societies such as colonial Sri Lanka , in which criminal law was made up of a set of rules , under this definition it is not normally difficult to determine whether or not an action was criminal . |
| 15 | The regulation of aviation comprises many different activities but perhaps the most significant is the drawing up of a set of rules and regulations and the establishment of an organisation to ensure their enforcement . |
| 16 | An ability is made up of a repertoire of skills and is thus a higher level skill . |
| 17 | Perhaps we can say that capitalist equilibrium is made up of a series of moments of dis-equilibria . |
| 18 | A module header is made up of a series of keywords ( upper case ) and their associated fields in which the user may supply some information . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | A ‘ Likert ’ survey is made up of a series of statements which are related to a person 's attitude to a single object , in this case using computers in school . |
| 21 | Lough Lannagh is made up of a series of lakes containing deep holes and is known as a dangerous area for swimming . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Defending the family as the centre of human life and the village as the basic social unit Eliot expresses his preference for London over other cities since it remains characteristically made up of a collection of villages whose borders touch , each maintaining its own local character . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Each song consists of a constant number of these themes , each theme being made up of a number of phrases . |
| 27 | 3 Where the petition is based on a statutory demand , only the debt claimed in the demand may be included in the petition , except that interest or other charges which have accrued since the date of the demand to the date of the petition may be added … 4 When completing para 2 of the petition , attention is drawn to r 6.8(I) ( a ) to ( c ) , particularly where the " aggregate sum " is made up of a number of debts . |
| 28 | It is made up of a number of bones ( vertebrae ) which are placed one on top of another . |
| 29 | Multi- stage sampling can be used when the population is made up of a number of sub-units . |
| 30 | Each NVQ [ there are 24 City and Guilds NVQs in the hotel , catering and hospitality industry ] is made up of a number of units ; each unit sets out the standard that must be reached . |