Example sentences of "been made of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Angelo Heilprin , an American geologist who visited the scene a few weeks later and wrote a book about the tragedy , described ‘ twisted bars of iron , great masses of roof sheeting wrapped like cloth about posts upon which they had been flung , and iron girders looped and festooned as if they had been made of rope ’ . |
| 2 | However , occasional use has been made of groups of voices ( e.g. all the sopranos ) singing together , supported by a quiet background of the other parts . |
| 3 | I was out of my element , and the air itself could have been made of gold for all the use it was to me . |
| 4 | ‘ How did I get here ? ’ she asked , looking around a shabby but pleasant room , feeling so frail that she might have been made of china , china broken into a thousand pieces . |
| 5 | Use has been made of CAI for training at the Library of Congress in the use of the SCORPIO ( Subject Content Oriented Retriever for Processing Information Online ) and MUMS ( the Multiple-Use MARC System ) . |
| 6 | Mention has been made of M. Spencer Ell the auditor , who gave generously of his services and bequeathed the Club a substantial legacy . |
| 7 | She realized that she was feeling it too , frozen to the marrow in this bitter East wind which kept whipping her cloak off her shoulders as contemptuously as if it had been made of pocket-handkerchieves instead of tablecloths , her stomach hollow and aching , her head feeling light and aching a little too . |
| 8 | Mention has already been made of waterfall cascade units . |
| 9 | For example , after the History of Sexuality much has been made of Foucault 's analysis of power as a form of totalizing paranoia ; but the analyses in that book , of , for example , the shift from the Catholic confession box to the confessional psychoanalytic couch , are both culturally and historically specific , and Foucault 's remarks about them need to be put in the same perspective . |
| 10 | Use has been made of PLATO software . |
| 11 | While a number of useful studies have been made of changes in particular fields , there has been no detailed and comprehensive review of all the changing assumptions , policies and practices of the last 40 years . |
| 12 | Considering the mess Hollywood might have been made of Triumph Of The Spirit ( Rocky in the Death Camps ? ) , we should be grateful this true life biopic about a Greek boxer imprisoned in Auschwitz and forced to fight for his captors ' entertainment has ended up the way it has dignified but dull , lacking any real historical punch . |
| 13 | As a result , geophysical surveys have been made of saltern mounds on the Lincolnshire coast , terrace gravels near the Trent containing evidence of Roman settlement , and a deserted medieval village under threat from road improvements in Leicestershire . |
| 14 | That last bomb had taken out those houses as if it had come with a great grasping fist and scooped them up and crunched them into rubble as easily as if they 'd been made of matchsticks . |
| 15 | He could tell nothing from their faces ; they could have been made of stone . |
| 16 | They might have been made of stone . |
| 17 | Considerable use has been made of actuality , especially in BBC regional weekly , review programmes , and there has been a reasonable amount of committee coverage . |
| 18 | Not only has significant use been made of committee matter in broadcast programmes , but this has spanned a wide range of committee activity . |
| 19 | More recently use has been made of machine readable dictionaries and thesauri to obtain semantically-based groupings of words ( e.g. ( Alshawi , 1987 ) , ( Amsler , 1981 ) ) . |
| 20 | In writing the last line use has been made of identities such as which result from changing a repeated suffix , in this case . |
| 21 | If it has been made of lead , then I would also have suggested that it was a pommel . |
| 22 | Various criticisms have been made of McClellan 's ideas , and some of these are reported in his chapter ‘ Critique and counter-critique ’ . |
| 23 | They were so still that they might have been made of granite . |
| 24 | It simply has n't been demonstrated that any cognizance has been made of R P G two , therefore that these concerns still remain on the table . |
| 25 | Marland ( 1986 ) and Tickle ( 1987 ) point to the limited extent to which ethnographic study has been made of arts classrooms to enlighten knowledge of arts teachers ' practices . |
| 26 | Several studies have been made of people 's needs and how they are satisfied by work ( see Further Reading ) . |
| 27 | Mention has already been made of SAIRI , based in Tehran and headed by Hojjatoleslam Muhammad Baqer al-Hakim , and of the anti-Baghdad bloc fostered in Damascus . |
| 28 | Understandably , much has been made of Henry VIII 's offer of a pension of £1000 to the pro-English and Protestant earl of Glencairn in 1544 and of the money to be sent from France for Mary to distribute to Arran , Beaton and others in 1545 . |
| 29 | The implant material has traditionally been made of silicone rubber but the potential advantages of a poly ( methyl acrylate- co -hydroxethyl acrylate ) hydrogel implant are now recognised . |
| 30 | It was reported that an offer had been made of leasehold premises in Oxford Street , between Rathbone Place and Newman Street , lately occupied by Mr Burr , stable-keeper , consisting of a dwelling house , yard , nine coach houses , 14 stables containing 51 stalls , and a covered ride . |