Example sentences of "are [verb] up [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we are using up to five times the energy that we really need to move , then it is hardly surprising that , after a long day , all we can do is ‘ collapse in a heap ’ ! |
| 2 | Homes with large impersonal reception areas are better for orientation if they are broken up into smaller areas divided from each other . |
| 3 | Societies disintegrate from within more frequently than they are broken up by external pressures . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Large numbers of British birds are nesting up to 22 days earlier than normal , possibly reflecting changes in climate as a result of global warming , according to a report by the British Trust for Ornithology . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ALL-GIRL band L7 are teaming up with wild rockers Nirvana in a bid to promote women 's rights . |
| 9 | Ordinary run-of-the-mill players are built up into footballing geniuses . |
| 10 | The argument was that different components of personality are built up in particular individuals as a consequence of cultural conditioning . |
| 11 | The atomic structures which characterize each family are built up in different ways with the basic SiO4 building-block . |
| 12 | There are lots of words are built up from other words are n't they ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Fortunately , though , all but a few volcanic rocks are built up by various combinations of only seven different minerals , or rather mineral families . |
| 15 | Postal bookings are accepted up to 48 hours before the screening or event . |
| 16 | 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 ' . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Both plants and animals are made up of eukaryotic cells , although the first simple cell was the procaryotic type . |
| 19 | Apple trees are made up of two parts , the fruiting variety and the rootstock . |
| 20 | Even now there are theories which say that quarks are made up of other things and so on , so I mean who knows . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The 580 acres are made up of landscaped hills and valleys , avenues , walks , lakes and cascades ; 37 of the original garden buildings survive . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | They are made up of chopped leaves and grass cuttings . |
| 25 | Professionalism We have seen how public sector organisations are made up of professional groups and have briefly discussed their importance for organisations . |
| 26 | In complex businesses , these trends are not stable because they are made up of complex interactions of diverse circumstances . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | All SCOTVEC qualifications are made up of different combinations of : |
| 30 | 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 . |