Example sentences of "[verb] up of [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 JOHN Armstrong 's paintings , ‘ built up of remembered things which in my case have been miscalled surrealist ’ , have a poetic appeal which often beats Dali , Magritte et al at their own game .
2 V Winding up of unregistered companies
3 He also referred to section 229(2) in the group of sections concerned with the winding up of unregistered companies .
4 Overlays can aid the build up of complex subjects .
5 But he 's had to close some of the deeper galleries which only pot holers use , because of the build up of toxic gasses .
6 It 's meant a build up of toxic gasses below ground , and health warnings to cavers who 've been exposed to the chemicals .
7 An alternative reason may be a gradual build up of tap-borne toxins .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 Both plants and animals are made up of eukaryotic cells , although the first simple cell was the procaryotic type .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 Much discussion of the issue in the press masquerades as a ) , but is in reality made up of various combinations of the other three .
15 The whole hospital was made up of various bungalows which surrounded one newly built principal building .
16 Total organic carbon is made up of non-hazardous materials .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 The test is made up of six subtests covering the following areas :
20 The screen is made up of six windows , each of which can display the current activity of one handler controlling one media unit .
21 Keith Richards tells with a mixture of jealousy and amazement the story that the guitar classes John Lee conducts at home are entirely made up of young girls .
22 The night duty was made up of nineteen areas , they made the nineteen beats , and er I had to go with older policemen learning each of the beats .
23 Each day , the meal was made up of baked potatoes and either rice pudding , soup , hashed beans and vegetables or oatmeal porridge .
24 A whole orange = 100% ( that is , it 's made up of 100 parts ) A whole orange cut into two equal parts becomes two lots of 50 parts .
25 But the council is made up of powerful men — Saffarac , Valentir and others .
26 In complex businesses , these trends are not stable because they are made up of complex interactions of diverse circumstances .
27 The working groups , made up of 38 delegates and 38 advisers , focused on five areas , namely the creation of a climate for free political activity ; the constitution-making process and principles for a new constitution ; transitional arrangements ; the future of the " independent " bantustans ( Bophuthatswana , Ciskei , Transkei and Venda ) ; and time-frames and the implementation of decisions .
28 The conversation is made up of unrelated anecdotes , people laughing , half-listening , half-not .
29 Where it is suspected that a piece is made up of unrelated fragments , the composition can sometimes be studied to sort out which fragments are original , or at least which ones belong together .
30 If the Althusserian mode of production is made up of differential times and histories , ‘ a complex ‘ intersection ’ of the different times , rhythms , turnovers , etc. ’ , then each element can not express the whole because the whole is only accessible as a concept , which is precisely not expressed at all .
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