Example sentences of "is [vb pp] up [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stage is tilted and is propped up by the coffins of Inquisition victims . |
| 2 | The tree is caught up in the constellations . |
| 3 | In the seemingly endless , and to male ears repetitive , chatter that goes on among women … a massive and encyclopaedic confidence is built up in the gossipers … gossip serves exactly the same grooming functions for the women as poker for the men … |
| 4 | Another avid audience is made up of the enzymes which add phosphate groups to proteins , some of which help in the production of impulses . |
| 5 | For Paul , that offering is made up of the lives of the many Gentiles who have turned to faith in God . |
| 6 | The text of the book is made up of the scripts of programmes broadcast in a radio series and then edited and developed . |
| 7 | The greatest collection of letters to have survived from post-Roman Gaul , however , is made up of the poems of Venantius Fortunatus , many of which are verse epistles . |
| 8 | In a many-to-many binary relationship , the relationship becomes a member record , its key is made up of the identifiers of the entities of the conceptual data model which the relationship was linking and if the entity is the carrier of attributes , these become fields of that record . |
| 9 | The former is made up of the utilities of the various classes or groups in society , while the latter is the utility of the community as such , discussed by Pareto in terms of maximisation of national military and political power . |
| 10 | The Auditing Practices Committee ( from 1991 , known as the ‘ Auditing Practices Board ’ ) of CCAB Ltd ( which is made up of the councils of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales , the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland , the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ireland , the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants , the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy , and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants ) issued an Explanatory Foreword which explains the scope and authority of Auditing Standards and Guidelines . |
| 11 | The practical effect of this provision is that if an MNP is formed by , say , a merger of a foreign legal firm and an English firm , the firm name used by either may be adopted as the name of the MNP if it is made up of the names of present or former principals who are or were lawyers ; a new name may be used derived from the names of one or more present or former principals of either firm ; a name previously approved by the Council may be used ; or application may be made for approval in writing by the Council of a name which does not otherwise comply with the requirements of rule 11(1) ( A ) . |
| 12 | Much of the difference between costs and revenues is made up by the losses of owners . |
| 13 | The idea of a triangle is made up from the ideas of being a closed figure , and having three straight sides ; the idea of gold from those of yellowness , malleability , and fusibility . |
| 14 | Every week a readiness roster or ‘ go-team ’ is drawn up with the names of three or four Operations Inspectors and three or four Engineering Inspectors who are ready to go to an accident site at a moment 's notice . |
| 15 | I believe the problem is worse in Craven Arms that is shown up by the figures , |
| 16 | Finally , the field of comparative religion is opened up for the students in the study of the faiths of the modern world . |
| 17 | I see the way the snow is kicked up off the paws of the dogs , the way their breath explodes around their heads . |
| 18 | It is not love if it is locked up in the vaults of our dreams for a better world and a happier life . |
| 19 | Mrs Thompson said : ‘ A lot of the history of the village is bound up in the names of local places . ’ |
| 20 | Although the itching may be due to the movement of the louse over the skin , it only moves a maximum of six inches per day , and it is more likely that an allergic reaction is set up to the lice themselves or to their faeces . |
| 21 | It is summed up in the words of Paul about his planned arrival in Rome : |
| 22 | The contrast between sluggish ANC and dynamic ruling party is summed up in the fates of their old leaders , each of whom suffered a stroke in 1989 . |
| 23 | When Lenny McLean is brought up from the cells in his cardigan to strand trial for the murder of Gary Humphreys , there are no spare seats in the gallery of Court 13 . |
| 24 | But it is left up to the Customs and Excise to implement on-site inspection and seizure of animals . |
| 25 | But it is left up to the applications developers themselves to synchronise the directories by reading the various separate directories and then updating the StreetTalk database with any changes . |
| 26 | A critical factor appears to be the enhanced influx of external calcium which is taken up by the stores with two consequences . |
| 27 | A large part of its small area is taken up by the grounds of The Crystal Palace and by a residential school . |
| 28 | Those are important and worthwhile projects , and we must ask the Government where the money for them will come from , especially if £1.4 billion is gobbled up by the proposals for King 's Cross . |
| 29 | The gear is piled up to the beams |
| 30 | The theme music is faded up by the Grams Operator , and then faded down again after the final credit has been captured on tape . |