Example sentences of "[pron] [be] make [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The WISARD machine and logical neural nets have structure and function resembling multi-layer perceptrons , but the individual nodes in them are made from 1-bit direct access memories .
2 Erm Of the total of goods that are sold in industrialized countries , such as , that have been manufactured , only three percent of them are made in developing countries .
3 The Department of Transport 's reply to my letter ( 12 March ) seems to have missed the general point I am making from this specific case , namely that travellers normally choose their mode of transport on the basis of perceived marginal costs ( ie the cost of petrol ) and conclude that it is a lot cheaper to use a car if you already have one .
4 I 'm made of sterner stuff than that .
5 If I find in myself a desire for which no experience in this world can satisfy , the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world .
6 There are other varieties of deposit , which are made for special purposes , e.g. for housing , and which are subject to special conditions .
7 French polish is usually a dark brown colour , but as a collective noun it includes button , white , transparent and garnet polishes , which are made with various types of shellac .
8 All Sainsbury 's stores collect and recycle cardboard boxes , used in packaging , which are made into more packaging .
9 Complex words are of two major types : words made from a basic stem word with the addition of an affix , and compound words , which are made of two ( or occasionally more ) independent English words ( e.g. ‘ ice-cream ’ , ‘ armchair ’ ) .
10 These compact cells are surrounded by layers of inter-cellular membranes which are made of different lipids .
11 Double skin protection is provided by way of inner liners which are made from similar , lighter fabrics and which help to improve insulation and sound quality .
12 Hard margarines which are made from hydrogenated vegetable oils are also off the menu .
13 When washing clothes use mild , non-biological washing powder like Ecover and Ark which are made from natural ingredients and are now available in most supermarkets .
14 The delicious pork and goose rillettes and rillons of Western France are also close relations of English potted meats — in other words cooked and shredded or pounded meat packed into pots after cooking , as opposed to the pâtés and terrines which are made from raw ingredients cooked directly in the pots or the crust in which they are to be stored and served .
15 In the case of ‘ organic ’ farming , the name was originally used to show that crops were grown using fertilizers derived from living things — manure or compost — rather than inorganic fertilizers such as nitrates , which are made by chemical processes .
16 The school manager , in contrast to his or her experience of GCSE , here has to struggle for clarity — a struggle which is made no easier by the over-simplified statements of policy about the unification of general and vocational education which are made by central government and by its political opponents .
17 Thus , our definition of crime is based on criminal laws which are made by particular governments and enforced by established criminal procedure .
18 In contrast to the plethora of American propagandist films about the Vietnam war , these films — which are made by Vietnamese film-makers — show the post-1945 Vietnamese experience from the Vietnamese perspective .
19 Many of the points which are made concerning alphabetical indexes in Chapters 15 , 16 and 17 may also be applied to the construction of indexes to classification schemes .
20 The above non-existent records are , as I say , obvious candidates for forgery , but the simple fact of their being made by obsolete technology makes it less likely that forgeries will appear .
21 If the stripes ( which were made of black tape , stuck on a white surface ) could be felt by the moths , then the moths usually lined up correctly .
22 Cleo ran her hands through their manes and tails , which were made of real horsehair , exclaiming in wonder .
23 During the later stages of the field surveys which were made for this Flora , the National Vegetation Classification project ( NVC ) was being carried out .
24 Dangerous products seized in recent years include brake shoes and linings for cars ; nuts and bolts supplied to the construction industry that caused parts of a building to collapse during an earthquake in the United States ; aircraft brake parts ; and eye drops which were made with contaminated water .
25 My difficulty is compounded by the succinctness and cogency of the Official Solicitor 's submissions which were made with obvious distaste , but in the due and proper fulfilment of their duties as the guardian ad litem of this disabled girl .
26 In this chapter , using significant material not previously published , we shall , for the first time , give a comprehensive picture of the complex efforts which were made between 21–27 May to achieve a state of harmony between ( a ) the various conflicting policies and orders of AFHQ and ( b ) the policies and orders being carried out by Eighth Army IS Corps , in respect of both Cossacks and Yugoslavs .
27 Children are remarkably resilient in this respect and there is little doubt that the fuss which is made about certain minor offences has more adverse effect on the child than the act itself .
28 Now he 'll be able to use his own crop to make paper — which is made at this plant in Scotland .
29 The section relates to any instrument that : ( i ) is executed in pursuance of an order of a court made on granting in respect of the parties a decree of divorce , nullity of marriage or judicial separation , or ( ii ) is executed in pursuance of an order of a court which is made in connection with the dissolution or annulment of the marriage or the parties ' judicial separation and which is made at any time after the granting of such a decree , or ( iii ) is executed at any time in pursuance of an agreement of the parties made in contemplation of or otherwise in connection with the dissolution or annulment of the marriage or their judicial separation .
30 Written entirely in two parts , the lower of which is made of standard accompanimental figures ( mostly Alberti bass ) , it is nevertheless somewhat more expansive and faintly more interesting than the ‘ Eckard ’ The following Corrente ( which demands a keyboard compass of F' to d'' ) , while made exclusively out of the rather mechanical formulas of the first few bars , at least generates plenty of energy with its leaps and crashing octaves .
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