Example sentences of "[conj] made up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead they went in for archaic exclamations such as ‘ Botheration ! ’ or made up their own : ‘ Slitherkins ! ’ |
| 2 | It also tells us whether the unknown letter is a single segment letter , or made up from a combination of two segments . |
| 3 | Some years ago the word ‘ psychosomatic ’ was often prefaced by the word ‘ merely ’ and was used to suggest that an illness was in some way unreal or made up . |
| 4 | Some of the American crop were typed but their tone matched those handwritten or made up of letters and words snipped from publications . |
| 5 | ‘ … or made up the answers , as you found on Sunday ? ’ |
| 6 | Now that we knew the line , we progressed quickly into the wild world of the seemingly blank walls and hanging stances that made up the meat of the route . |
| 7 | Pictured left are Bill , his wife , the vehicles that made up the Antiques Roadshow and their energetic and skilful riders . |
| 8 | In the quiet of the dawn , the young platoon commanders and their sergeants walked around the four vehicLes that made up their command , to check their soldiers and their equipment . |
| 9 | Graham Greene fairly remarked of the amorphous string of sequences that made up Rembrandt that ‘ no amount of money spent on expensive sets , on careful photography , will atone for the lack of a storyline , the continuity and drive of a well-constructed plot . ’ |
| 10 | I decided to examine some of the services that made up this massive total . |
| 11 | The seven communities that made up the population of Møn in those days ranged round one or other of the churches and each community made itself known to the others in a common language of bells . |
| 12 | He put little slips of paper in the entries that made up his fragile narrative or non-narrative . |
| 13 | The palace of ‘ Black Ab ’ , the grandfather of King Hussein , overlooked the mosque , the bazaar and the huddle of insanitary buildings that made up the capital . |
| 14 | The port of Anjer quite simply ceased to exist as the succession of great waves washed over it , carrying away all the flimsy wooden buildings that made up the town . |
| 15 | At the top right of the figure , which shows the highest level of completeness , there is a cluster of owl assemblages containing the same species that made up the typical owl pattern designated in the previous section : barn owl , long-eared owl , short-eared owl , great grey owl and Verreaux eagle owl . |
| 16 | In Warmia and Mazuria , two of the districts that made up East Prussia , the Poles suffered serious reverses , gaining only 3 of the 28 disputed villages . |
| 17 | Within the three large rooms were partitions that made up other , smaller rooms , and the kitchen , which contained the bath . |
| 18 | As the Goods sit in Kelly 's bedroom surrounded by the bits and pieces that made up her world , Mike picks up her diary . |
| 19 | Of the 16 funds that made up our Global Strategy umbrella fund when it was launched five years ago , no less than four have come first in their respective sectors over this period , according to Finstat . |
| 20 | Professor Khan had been a crucial cog in the great mesh of wheels that made up the whole for the creation of an Iraqi nuclear warhead . |
| 21 | Much has been written about Griffith and his contribution to the movies but the ingredients that made up his genius have never been better identified than in the review Heywood Broun wrote of Intolerance when it appeared in 1916 . |
| 22 | By the 1960s the cricket authorities therefore wanted a better crowd-drawer than the old three-day games between counties that made up the county championship . |
| 23 | In three other areas , as much political as organizational , advances were made towards the management of the press , the coordination of the heterogeneous collection that made up the party , and the fostering of modern attitudes in the local parties . |
| 24 | She had reached the place where the Dalek Killer had entered one of the six squat buildings that made up the central complex . |
| 25 | They had n't heard the scratching sounds since Daak had straightened out the protesting shuttle and lowered it serenely towards the whorled ridges that made up the top of the space station . |
| 26 | Through its low branches I had a latticed view of the buildings that made up my home . |
| 27 | Then we were off , emptied along with the cotton into the truck that transported the El Azains ' harvest , together with that of the five other families that made up this producers ' co-operative , to the local town to meet the buyer . |
| 28 | Even the particles that made up his body would not survive . |
| 29 | He went from one end to the other of the U-shaped hotel , up and down steps that marked the boundaries of the three separate buildings that made up the Steam Packet Hotel . |
| 30 | For C. Wright Mills , the dominant group among the three that made up the ‘ power elite ’ which , he argued , dominated the American political process after the Second World War was that of the new military leaders ( Mills , 1956 , pp. 198–224 ) . |