Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [verb] up [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probably more than half of the two million living species of invertebrates making up this proportion live in the seas covering our planet , and perhaps half of these are found in the tropical waters from where aquarium subjects are collected . |
| 2 | The loss of trivial names such as vinyl , amyl , allyl , and so on , which in a couple of syllables conjure up huge chunks of molecules , continues to amaze me . |
| 3 | During the First World War a number of Ministries set up regional offices and the newly created Ministry of Health set up nine regions — an experiment to be rudely terminated in 1921 as an economy measure . |
| 4 | For most people nowadays , any mention of computers conjours up vague images of more or less two things : either Sonic the Hedgehog , or a shapeless , grey , John-Majorish boredom . |
| 5 | Sixty alleged Palestinian informers or collaborators had been killed by August 1989 , as the Israeli Defence Force ( IDF ) and Shin Bet ( the Israeli secret police ) increased their use of informers to set up paramilitary groups working alongside Palestinian collaborators . |
| 6 | One obvious way to reduce the risks of conflict between the powers was to encourage the formation of an ‘ ultra-imperialist ’ consortium of powers to open up new territories like China . |
| 7 | Through their researches , I know that many of these events are the result of creatures picking up subtle cues from the environment which we , with all our " hi-tech " equipment , are quite unable to detect . |
| 8 | I commend the order to the House to afford continued statutory protection to the very small number of teachers taking up new contracts of employment during any hiatus between the current date of expiry of the 1987 Act and the coming into force of the first pay and conditions order under the 1991 Act . |
| 9 | The weary DHSS staff of respectable old Oxford were relieved of certain unpleasant duties in the early autumn of 1982 when a 200-strong squad of police mopped up unsuspecting itinerants said to have defrauded the welfare state by allegedly drawing social security for rent when they were sleeping rough . |
| 10 | No informants provided any information about proportions of students taking up optional courses : the only student numbers provided were for compulsory courses , and not all of these gave their numbers . |
| 11 | The records or blocks of records take up more space , because they are in the CKD format with separate keys . |
| 12 | Then the following sets of components make up three tensors ( A , B , C ) of rank 2 : while has rank 3 . |
| 13 | There followed a series of laws setting up separate schools for Sri Lanka 's different language-groups and establishing quotas for Sinhala-speakers in universities . |