Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] up [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Biologists may be able to determine the shape of molecules made up of amino acid chains , thereby predicting the effect of drugs before such drugs even exist . |
| 2 | From the twelfth dynasty one may cite a necklace or girdle made up of electrum cowries ( Plate C ) with beads of lapis lazuli , carnelian , amethyst and electrum , said to have come from Thebes , or again one made up of gold cowries from Dashur , linked with the mother-goddess Hathor . |
| 3 | In local area networking , Novell has weathered the storm whipped up by Microsoft by holding onto a 70% share of the market with NetWare , and says it is now the biggest shipper of TCP/IP , sending out code for 40,000 to 50,000 terminals a month . |
| 4 | The main base made up of volunteers from the local wards like nurses and well I mean nurses and auxiliaries like that . |
| 5 | With XPG4 , as part of its sworn intent to become more user-oriented , X/Open will be assembling various specific user packages and profiles made up of combinations of the existing and new XPG components . |
| 6 | TRAINER John Gosden made up for Brier Creek 's narrow Ebor defeat when Badawi took the Andy Capp Handicap at York yesterday , writes Carles Fawcus . |
| 7 | Later astronomers made extensive alterations , and added new groups made up of stars stolen from the existing 48 . |
| 8 | We have our own advisory board made up of members and officials of the council , trade unionists , industrialists and our own management . |
| 9 | A 34-member Advisory Board made up of bureaucrats , technocrats and businessmen was also created . |
| 10 | On the advice of City experts , a director general and a board made up of MPs , councillors and activists will run the ramshackle national organisation like a private company . |
| 11 | It was an unsatisfactory relationship , but their meetings made up for infrequency by their intensity . |
| 12 | When a Masai owned up to cattle raiding and invited punishment he did so in a spirit , not of insolent defiance , but of self-respect . |
| 13 | LEFT Images of Uranus built up from information sent back in 1986 by Voyager 2 ; the image on the right is in false colour and extreme contrast enhancement to show details of Uranus 's polar regions . |
| 14 | It replaces traditional drawing abilities yet it can preserve the centuries of craft skills built up by shoemakers . |
| 15 | Four or five storeys high , they tottered against each other , held up only by the shells of neighbouring structures , their innards shrivelled up by fire , a real Dresden of a street . |
| 16 | The concept of charity is elusive , moving , embodied in a corpus of decided cases built up over centuries . |
| 17 | Terrible dread rose up within Lucien . |
| 18 | THE recession caught up with Whatman last year , dealing a blow to the Maidstone-based filtration and purification products group 's consistent growth record , with pre-tax profits falling 16 p.c. to £9.21m , on sales £5m ahead at £49.6m . |
| 19 | Whitlock caught up with Mobuto but remained discreetly in the background while he finished talking to the Chief of Protocol . |
| 20 | One of the most exciting developments in recent years has been the degree of convergence between models of visual function built up by computer scientists trying to figure out how to build machines that can see and physiologists trying to work out what different parts of the visual system do . |
| 21 | CO 2 is also produced in huge amounts by burning fossil fuels — which of course are organic molecules built up by photosynthesis millions of years in the past . |
| 22 | Continents began to drift apart as the molten basaltic lava welled up from cracks in the seabed ( see Chapter 8 ) . |
| 23 | Special care was used to avoid RNAse contamination ( baked glassware , solutions made up in water treated with diethylpyrocarbonate ) . |
| 24 | Dido choked up with sobs , for her Sicheus |
| 25 | An article in a recent issue of the British Medical Journal , pointed out that babies in fluoridated areas who drink dried milk formulae made up with water containing 1 ppm fluoride , are ingesting up to 100 times the amount of fluoride they would obtain from mother 's milk ( vol 283. p 76 ) . |
| 26 | She had a white star , half-covered by a rough forelock , her ears pricked up with fear . |
| 27 | The leadership will be decided by an electoral college made up of trade unions , MPs and constituency parties . |
| 28 | Unfortunately for Mosley , although the economic crisis worsened in 1931 , bringing about the fall of the deeply divided Labour government , it was replaced by a National Coalition made up of Conservatives , the majority of the Liberals and a few Labour MPs under Macdonald , Snowdon and Thomas . |
| 29 | The curtain had to be delayed while Meredith made up as Mr Darling . |
| 30 | Eventually they divided this process into sixty-four stages ; In the Book of Changes each stage is represented by a hexagram — a six-line figure made up of whole and broken lines . |