Example sentences of "[noun] be make of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many metal objects are made of more than one component . |
| 2 | In Cambridgeshire , both on the former open-field areas and in the reclaimed fens almost identical farmhouses are made of a grey-white brick . |
| 3 | Moreover , most surviving copies are made of marble , which does not perform as bronze . |
| 4 | But in fact , the egg cells are quite the most likely place for the cycle to occur — because egg cells go through a phase of very high and relatively indiscriminate transcriptional activity when numerous RNA copies are made of a great deal of DNA including some of the Alu sequences . |
| 5 | And that whereas the earth 's actual mantle , which appears on the ocean floor , consists of heavy rocks — predominantly silicon and magnesium ( sima ) — the continents are made of lighter material : igneous rocks and crystalline schists ( sial ) . |
| 6 | Cans are made of valuable raw materials — aluminium , steel and tin which are rarely recycled . |
| 7 | The majority are made of aluminium alloy which is lightweight but can bend . |
| 8 | Most groundsheets are made of nylon and are coated with either pvc or pu . |
| 9 | Water molecules are made of one hydrogen and two oxygen atoms and , apart from distilled water , countless traces of ions and salts . |
| 10 | The most enduring and widespread artefacts from the earliest times are made of flint , a hard rock which fractures to give sharp edges ideally suited for making knives , axeheads and arrowheads . |
| 11 | Most conventional firedoors are made of compacted chipboard wood . |
| 12 | Cricket bats are made of willow , mallets of elm , polo balls of bamboo roots and loom shuttles of persimmon , a tree which grows in Persia . |
| 13 | Now , however , science has provided the means to manipulate the basic genetic material that all plants and animals are made of , namely DNA ( deoxyribonucleic acid ) and already this has resulted in exciting progress in forensic science , pharmacology and disease control . |
| 14 | And models of Noah 's ark must be among the most enduring of children 's toys , whether the animals are made of wood or plastic . |
| 15 | ( Some compounds are made of more than two words , but we will not consider these . ) |
| 16 | Her pyjamas are made of thin translucent cotton . |
| 17 | Fairies are supposed to make tapestries of light beams , but these tapestries of the mind are made of thread even finer . |
| 18 | At some grounds ( notably Manchester United 's ) security fencing and iron grilles of the type that zoo cages are made of have been installed . |
| 19 | The domes are made of a steel-nickel alloy which can withstand high pressure and even explosions . |
| 20 | Has any study been made of a similar problem ? |
| 21 | Her grandfather carved it from a single piece of pear wood ; its arms and legs are made of string , its shirt is just an old scrap of pyjama . |
| 22 | The looking-glass and candlesticks are made of ivory . |
| 23 | Because proteins are made of amino acids , if protein synthesis is blocked by giving an inhibitor , amino acids which would otherwise have been converted into proteins tend to accumulate in the cell . |
| 24 | Indeed , in many cases there may be no meaning in the demands being made of children . |
| 25 | McDonald 's meanwhile went over Blake 's head to complain to the director of the agency about the demands being made of them . |
| 26 | And the overshadowing would matter less if the roof were made of glass . ’ |
| 27 | Those eyes were made of coloured glass . |
| 28 | What was more , when we plotted , not strength but breaking strain , against thickness , we found that it did not matter what the whiskers were made of , for they all plotted on the same curve . |
| 29 | At endoscopy , a visual assessment and video recordings were made of ulceration and gastropathy ( Olympus GIF XV10 ) . |
| 30 | Early waterwheels were made of wood , but as cast iron developed the miller made use of this new material for his machinery . |