Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] up the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two skimmers to pole and bloodworm tactics made up the bulk of his 4–1–3 winning weight , pipping England international Alan McAtee ( Elton Tackle ) on 3–13–8 . |
| 2 | In 1889 the NAS&FU 's instruction to its members not to sign on with any company until all Liverpool shipowners had acceded to its demands stiffened up the resolution of the thirteen principal lines affected . |
| 3 | The departmental appraisals took up the bulk of the self-evaluation report . |
| 4 | A dozen books took up the space of three dozen nomes , and while Grimma privately thought that some of the books were more useful than many of the nomes , she 'd accepted Dorcas 's promise that they would come back , one day , and try to retrieve them from their hiding place under the floor . |
| 5 | Although reformist communists made up the bulk of members of these groupings , they refused the whip of the local party committee . |
| 6 | The press has for some years played up the problems of UK financial reporting and has exaggerated the extent to which those problems derived from weak enforcement of standards rather than defects in the standards themselves . |
| 7 | My breath rasped in my throat , and a slight light-headedness I had started to feel owing to hyperoxygenating earlier waned as my muscles took up the slack of the extra power in my blood . |
| 8 | An entrance porch , cloakrooms and lavatories made up the rest of the accommodation . |
| 9 | Amnesty claimed that Moslem fundamentalists made up the majority of the 8,000 people arrested for political reasons in 1989 . |
| 10 | Kāli swept up the drifts of flour and , scooping it up in her limply cold hands , crammed it back into the bag . |
| 11 | Hollywood was just beginning to realize that the old phenomenon of stars might have an added significance in a period of depression and there must have been considerable delight in the studios at the alacrity with which the critics took up the subject of Cagney . |
| 12 | Mothers cleared up the remnants of picnics . |
| 13 | The Plymouth merchants gave up the idea of founding a northern colony , though they were interested in the prospects for fishing and they traded with the Indians along the coastline . |
| 14 | A.J. Wickens , K.C. and other prominent citizens made up the Board of Directors and we began to look for commercial advertisers . |
| 15 | Many others made up the array of artisan manufacturers , either as independent masters or , increasingly , as waged journeymen . |
| 16 | Then the effort to locate industry in new areas and to build new towns showed up the weakness of local government as an executive agency and the first talk of reform began in Whitehall . |
| 17 | Salomea was at the Cadby Nursery when , at short notice , several refugee nurses took up the chance of emigrating to America . |
| 18 | Bowley , the man who above all others took up the mantle of Booth and Rowntree in the early part of this century , that " it was unfortunately not the custom in Bowley 's day for the British Government to call outside experts . |
| 19 | In the minds of ‘ right-to-life ’ adherents , the reports conjured up the image of a massive abortion market fuelled by the need for fetal parts . |
| 20 | The students picked up the lack of concern on the part of their teachers and became indifferent . |
| 21 | Several Trade Unions agreed to support the Communist application , among them the Miners ' Federation of Great Britain , whose votes made up the bulk of those recorded for Communist affiliation at the Edinburgh Conference of the Labour Party . |