Example sentences of "made of the [noun] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In both the Branch Establishments Scheme and the Manpower Planning Information System , considerable use is made of the ability of computers to perform large volumes of calculations with consistent accuracy . |
| 2 | Indeed , during what was the longest obscenity trial in British publishing history , great play was made of the involvement of schoolchildren , one of the charges being that the editors : |
| 3 | We find Makarenko by the 1930s writing , ‘ How is it that the resistance of materials is studied in all higher technical institutes , while in the pedagogical institutes no study is made of the resistance of personalities to educational measures ? ’ . |
| 4 | A calculation is made of the percentage of non-arrivals , cancellations and guests that terminate their stay earlier than expected . |
| 5 | From each venous sample , 100 sets of chromosomes were examined , and counts made of the frequency of cells containing dicentric chromosomes with dissimilar chromosome fragments . |
| 6 | They are made of the kind of ingredients that wild fish eat — insects , shrimps , meat , fish , and algae are among the usual list . |
| 7 | Week by week Joan Sallis and others gave advice and placed the description of what were regarded as new problems against the background of why powers were changing and why the best use should be made of the variety of forces , pressures and influences which supported governing bodies . |
| 8 | Gerald of Wales , writing in the later twelfth century , says that the Welsh do not build ‘ lofty stone buildings ’ but content themselves with small huts made of the boughs of trees twisted together . ’ |
| 9 | On the central issue raised by the subtitle of the show , art in or out of the mainstream , some statistical study was made of the representation of women artists and the milestones in their careers . |
| 10 | To test this hypothesis a number of stream patterns are generated using the program described above and a count made of the number of streams with no tributaries ( these are called first-order streams ) , then the number of streams formed by the junction of two first-order streams ( these are second-order streams ) and so on . |
| 11 | No estimates could be made of the number of systems or the number of applications involving personal data — guesses ranged from 50,000 to 350,000 . |
| 12 | Orthographic content is estimated by a tedious but accurate procedure by which a count is made of the number of times each letter appears in each position in a word of specific length . |
| 13 | During both World Wars less was made of the effect of women 's work on childbearing and childrearing . |