Example sentences of "made of " in BNC.
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| 1 | These sites of criticism are cramping for persuasive advocacy , even if excellent use is sometimes made of them . |
| 2 | A remarkable Marxist interpretation , for example , was made of Florentine painting from Giotto 's time to the fifteenth century , by Frederick Antal in the 1940s . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Crates belonging to millionaires were impressive : beamed and lined with sailcloth , they had solid , elegant walls made of the most expensive grades of tropical wood , with the rings and knots cut and polished like antiques . |
| 5 | Excellent use is made of the text of Tom Jones , but it is now less detectable that this is a writer who has done his stint of teaching English literature at university level . |
| 6 | The Zuckerman books are a medley of differences and affinities between what we are able to infer about Roth 's life and what he has made of it in art . |
| 7 | Kelman stands much closer to the new hero , and more is made of what happens in that hero 's head . |
| 8 | Eventually , stone-cold-sober-seeming but perhaps too drunk to drive , he treks off through the dubs of a drizzle ( Thales said the world was made of water , the ‘ primary element ’ , and he handni even been to Glasgow ) back to his bachelor 's tenement flat ( Coelebs still in search of a wife ) . |
| 9 | Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners ' legs , |
| 10 | A similar statement can be made of the presbyterian community , which is almost wholly Northern , and whose main Southern presbytery is in the counties of old Ulster which remain in the Republic — Donegal , Cavan , and Monaghan . |
| 11 | Use has also been made of Russell 's work on the teaching of civics in Northern Ireland schools . |
| 12 | You only turn to it as people climb mountains and cross deserts — to find out what you are made of by doing what you hardly dare to do . |
| 13 | Thus walls were often covered with , and the bar partitions made of , tongue-and-groove boarding , which was often grained . |
| 14 | family made of themselves in public . |
| 15 | It was n't the sort of stuff that love stories are made of , to be honest . ’ |
| 16 | An intrauterine device also known as an IUD , IUCD , loop or coil is a small , flexible object between two and four centimetres in length , made of plastic or plastic wound with copper . |
| 17 | Made of thin rubber and worn over the erect penis , a condom prevents sperm from entering the woman . |
| 18 | Often so much fuss is made of the mother-to-be that the father-to-be feels left out . |
| 19 | It is sustained by an intimate knowledge of its ‘ enemy ’ — the underclass of society — and exemplary use is made of this knowledge to produce the technological and structural means for the continuity of this system of power . |
| 20 | Anthropology has played a significant part in illustrating ways in which symbolic use is made of the body to make statements about the condition of society itself ( Mauss 1935 , Douglas 1973 , Blacking 1977 , etc. ) , and hair became an apposite symbolic indicator of the problems the forces of control were faced with at this time . |
| 21 | And the beginning of Lucy and her had been lyrically beautiful , the stuff that dreams are made of . |
| 22 | Well before noon , beside a small church whose roof sagged under clumps of grass and willow-herb , they came to the bridge over to Grandtully and looked across at the dense little settlement , lumpish houses made of undressed river boulders with brown smoke streaming through their heather thatch , hovels of branches littered through the trees , a few solid cottages with level roof-trees . |
| 23 | Cameron and Menzies looked at each other , searching for signs of belief that something could still be made of the occasion . |
| 24 | Lenny responds quickly to requests made of him both by campers and counsellors alike . |
| 25 | Their wings are made of glass and gold and we are fortunate |
| 26 | But while he argues for general connections between the rites , incidentally ignoring the many repudiations of Gnosticism that were made of it by early Christian leaders , his viewpoint is much more balanced than Scobie 's . ) |
| 27 | Well , he might say that one mental sentence is , as it were , ‘ upfront ’ ( for example ‘ The spectacles are broken ! ’ ) , but that this sentence has a network of connections to other sentences in the mental architecture ( ‘ They are made of glass , ’ ‘ They were purchased ’ , ‘ They are not unique ’ ) . |
| 28 | In one condition he showed them a series of objects which had been bought from a joke shop : a piece of rubber cheese , a chicken 's egg made of stone , and so forth . |
| 29 | They had sex protected from each other , the little slip of rubber a true barrier made of caution and sensibility . |
| 30 | If a movie were to be made of her American tour , one would see pages fly from calendars , clock hands spin and headlines slapped one on top of the next . |