Example sentences of "[vb pp] up of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But again there is ambivalence over whether they should be encouraged into the countryside : to the farmer and conservationist alike a vision is conjured up of marauding inner-city teenagers and other undesirable aliens , wreaking havoc in an environment best kept well away from ‘ those kinds of people ’ . |
| 2 | And indeed , the habit had grown up of issuing acts of revocation well after the minorities were in practice over , at the age of twenty-five ; James V was so scrupulous on this point that his was announced in Rouen , where he was on his twenty-fifth birthday . |
| 3 | A study of the fine structure of a spherulite shows that it is built up of fibrous sub-units , growth takes place by the formation of fibrils which spread outwards from the nucleus in bundles , into the surrounding amorphous phase . |
| 4 | For the first period , local historical societies or historians with local interests are increasingly publishing lay subsidy and other early records , which permit a ( sometimes incomplete ) picture to be built up of local populations and the relative prosperity of individual heads of family . |
| 5 | I got fed up of all that daft nonsense . |
| 6 | I 'm fed up of all this aggravation . |
| 7 | ‘ Do n't you get fed up of all these trees ? ’ |
| 8 | Step forward Ben Pearson of Welwyn Garden City , who writes : ‘ Dear Bizzerk , I 'm a bit of a man 's man , me , and I 'm fed up of all the blokes writing in who just want to hang around with other blokes . |
| 9 | Step forward Ben Pearson of Welwyn Garden City , who writes : ‘ Dear Bizzerk , I 'm a bit of a man 's man , me , and I 'm fed up of all the blokes writing in who just want to hang around with other blokes . |
| 10 | Look , I 'm fed up of this . |
| 11 | But the largest of these was a group made up of assorted Yugoslav military formations , mainly Slovenes and Serbs , who had retreated over the Harawanken Alps from Slovenia on 7 May , together with German units , the White Russian Schutzkorps , camp followers and civilian refugees . |
| 12 | Both plants and animals are made up of eukaryotic cells , although the first simple cell was the procaryotic type . |
| 13 | Where most saw atoms with void space between them in the manner of Newton and Dalton , Faraday by the 1840s believed that matter was made up of mere point centres of force . |
| 14 | Yeast is made up of millions of tiny fungus cells which literally go berserk when confronted by a liquid rich with sugars . |
| 15 | I mean the world 's made up of all different coloured people — why should n't we have different faces and all ? |
| 16 | These different groups , made up of all those who are in a similar position in the housing market , are called housing classes . |
| 17 | But the greater proportion of goods traffic was not carried in specials but in ordinary merchandise trains , made up of all kinds of vehicles containing an assortment of commodities , raw and manufactured . |
| 18 | Another reason why the Greeks may have chosen the number 360 is because they thought the year was made up of 360 days and that the sun went round the earth once a year . |
| 19 | The transformation is made up of spiritual , intellectual and emotional elements which grow together into an autonomous state of mind : Sooner or later this attitude of autonomy expresses itself in doubt . |
| 20 | Much discussion of the issue in the press masquerades as a ) , but is in reality made up of various combinations of the other three . |
| 21 | The whole hospital was made up of various bungalows which surrounded one newly built principal building . |
| 22 | The remaining er , eleven erm , on the delegation were made up of General Secretary , Deputy General Secretary , elected national officers and a few senior staff . |
| 23 | Total organic carbon is made up of non-hazardous materials . |
| 24 | The Local Police Authority ( made up of twelve elected councillors and six appointed magistrates ) is responsible for maintaining an adequate police force ( i.e. in terms of finance , equipment , accommodation and personnel ) , and making arrangements for local consultation . |
| 25 | Although it is mostly made up of perennial plants which will come up fresh in spring , there are one or two evergreen shrubs added for structure : an upright rosemary and a couple of spiky yuccas . |
| 26 | In these schools ' sets the 0–17 score band contain 1.1 boys to each girl , but the higher score band ( 18–29 ) was made up of 2.4 boys to each girl . |
| 27 | The full course last from January to November 1993 , but it is made up of six separate units . |
| 28 | The test is made up of six subtests covering the following areas : |
| 29 | Each Advanced Certificates is made up of six Higher National Unit credits , covering engineering principles , advanced technology , and applied technology . |
| 30 | The screen is made up of six windows , each of which can display the current activity of one handler controlling one media unit . |