Example sentences of "[am/are] [vb pp] up [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Homes with large impersonal reception areas are better for orientation if they are broken up into smaller areas divided from each other .
2 Societies disintegrate from within more frequently than they are broken up by external pressures .
3 The recessed planes are used in places , but more often they are broken up by bold three-quarterings and massings which give a quite different sense of the third dimension .
4 Some — like that of Ryno the medic , exhausted and saddened after a struggle to save the life of a fellow constable — show how very young most men are when they are caught up in armed conflicts .
5 The report warns service providers against offering global ‘ one-stop shopping ’ services , as they may then find that the more attractive routes or services are picked up by other types of provider with cheaper offerings .
6 I am fed up with French plaits and ponytails and refuse to wear my hair in a bun .
7 Ordinary run-of-the-mill players are built up into footballing geniuses .
8 The argument was that different components of personality are built up in particular individuals as a consequence of cultural conditioning .
9 The atomic structures which characterize each family are built up in different ways with the basic SiO4 building-block .
10 There are lots of words are built up from other words are n't they ?
11 The rejoinder must be : although we may generally have neither the time nor the inclination to look at literary language under the microscope in this way , the fact that it can be done is important , and the doing of it can not fail to sharpen observation , by making us aware of how larger effects are built up from smaller ones .
12 Fortunately , though , all but a few volcanic rocks are built up by various combinations of only seven different minerals , or rather mineral families .
13 Postal bookings are accepted up to 48 hours before the screening or event .
14 However , if these items are made up into attractive dishes they can be photographed and used to good effect with features on " Supper Dishes with Soup " or " Crunchy Toppings ' .
15 In Britain , all bands are made up of burly chaps whose pent-up emotions cause them to split up by post and be rude to the bass player in print rather than face the separation .
16 Both plants and animals are made up of eukaryotic cells , although the first simple cell was the procaryotic type .
17 Apple trees are made up of two parts , the fruiting variety and the rootstock .
18 Even now there are theories which say that quarks are made up of other things and so on , so I mean who knows .
19 The injunction that an article must be " taken as a whole " will apply to books and plays and films : in the case of magazines , however , which are made up of separate articles , advertisements and photographs , the " dominant impact " principle has less force .
20 The 580 acres are made up of landscaped hills and valleys , avenues , walks , lakes and cascades ; 37 of the original garden buildings survive .
21 All fats are made up of fatty acids : some of these are saturated fatty acids ( called saturates ) , the rest are unsaturated and these include a special group called polyunsaturated fatty acids ( or polyunsaturates ) .
22 They are made up of chopped leaves and grass cuttings .
23 Professionalism We have seen how public sector organisations are made up of professional groups and have briefly discussed their importance for organisations .
24 In complex businesses , these trends are not stable because they are made up of complex interactions of diverse circumstances .
25 Animals are made up of specialized cells , such as blood cells , cartilage cells , fat cells , muscle cells , nerve cells — humans have about 350 different cell types while lower animals , like hydra , only 10 to 20 .
26 In organisational terms , a pluralist approach would suggest that organisations are made up of different groups each with access to the decision-making processes and with the ability to influence those processes .
27 All SCOTVEC qualifications are made up of different combinations of :
28 The term ‘ market segmentation ’ is based on the concept that most , if not all , markets are made up of different types of customers ie within each total market , there exist sub-markets which express distinctive product preferences compared with each other .
29 Bureaucrats are made up of different types of officials .
30 The assumption is that organisations are made up of different types of individuals who have different motives .
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