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

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1 Furthermore , the results are often inconsistent , especially when comparisons are made between different species .
2 Sportsmen are not born : they are made and they are made through social processes .
3 Professional education and training inevitably create such a social and educational gap between the providers of the services and working-class users that unless efforts are made to narrow it or close it , working-class people will make less adequate use of services .
4 Where allocations are made to individual service points , a number of factors may be taken into account in deciding the division of funds .
5 Clubs are made to standard size and are suitable for the vast majority of players .
6 Where changes in presentation are made , appropriate adjustments are made to comparative figures .
7 Despite that , surprisingly few complaints about discrimination are made to industrial tribunals each year .
8 The recent development of ‘ paid volunteer ’ schemes , where small payments are made to untrained local people to provide regular help and support to disabled and elderly people in order to sustain their continued residence in ‘ the community ’ , illustrates precisely this growing interface between private unpaid and public waged caring work ( Leat and Gay , 1987 ; Qureshi , 1990 ; Baldock and Ungerson , 1991 ) .
9 The member states have recently agreed on the mutual recognition of listings on different stock exchanges , if the related applications are made to different stock exchanges roughly contemporaneously , and this has been incorporated into UK law .
10 Such a given behaviour ( innate is the conventional term , but I prefer to avoid it if possible , for it carries along with it a load of redundant ideological baggage ) ensures that appropriate responses are made to particular stimuli without the need for trial-and-error learning , but at the expense of limits to both the range and the flexibility of the response .
11 It should not be forgotten that where structural alterations are made to licensed premises the approval of the licensing justices is required in addition to planning permission .
12 They are designed for single use , but because they are made of formed fabric , they give the appearance of linen .
13 Optical discs , for example , are made of insulating material ; although they can be coated with a thin metal film and put under an STM , an AFM could examine a product without destroying it .
14 The rail is made of wrought iron and the rings are made of cast bronze .
15 These are made of heavy-gauge metal with a polished stainless steel surround .
16 Armed with a saw and a screwdriver I have fitted my own secondary units and , now , some companies are producing panes that are made of high-resilience plastics , which are much lighter to handle and are much warmer to the touch than glass .
17 The genetic material may be as small as a single gene , while some protein coats are made of multiple copies of only one specific protein molecule .
18 Although many artefacts are made of pure metals , rather more are made of alloys .
19 Generally , such a pump will consist of a cast body containing a motor although some recent models are made of non-corrosive materials like noryl .
20 The handles to the doors are made of preserved Skaven paws , with a snarling Skaven head mounted just above each paw .
21 The weapons are expensive partly because they are made of expensive components , but also because they are time-consuming to develop .
22 hearts are made of padded satin
23 Both canons are made of similar material : cells of one , two , or three quavers , and the use of one or two crotchets .
24 They are made of basaltic glass , so when they come to rest , they glisten blackly on the ground .
25 Clays and muds and rocks are made of tiny crystals .
26 Collars are made of various materials , with leather being traditionally popular for this purpose , although nylon collars are also now widely available .
27 The seat is elm and the other parts are made of various fruit woods ; mine is of cherry .
28 Those clamps are made of high-tensile steel fitted with a locking device .
29 Her pyjamas are made of thin translucent cotton .
30 The uplands , except those of Antrim , are made of old resistant rocks with some granite batholiths forming the highest land , as in the Mountains of Mourne .
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