Example sentences of "[verb] up of [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the more curious recent products of the Bush administration has been the hyping up of a new anti-poverty idea in terms that sound more like black radicalism of the 1960s . |
| 2 | Heath and his colleagues next abolished the parliament and constitution of Northern Ireland in defiance of all Commonwealth constitutional precedent and despite the fact that the action was a unilateral tearing up of an international treaty registered at the League of Nations . |
| 3 | In this case , however , it may be that present sea level coincides with an older sea level to so close a degree that the erosion platform merely represents the trimming up of an earlier one . |
| 4 | Today , I think people would say that a lot of what we did in those early days has been influential in the general brightening up of the high streets in this country . |
| 5 | The work involves the legal processes of obtaining probate of wills and the winding up of a deceased person 's affairs so that the wishes expressed in those wills may be carried out . |
| 6 | The winding up of the New Town Development Corporations began in the mid-1980s , and in December 1986 the Minister for Housing said that all of the New Town Development Corporations would have gone by 1992 . |
| 7 | Following the winding up of the Political Prisoners Release Committee , Caughey became secretary of a small group called Irish Union , which , in its personnel , provided a link between the NICCL and the later Wolfe Tone Societies and NICRA . |
| 8 | There are three basic considerations : ( 1 ) the need to avoid the consequences of a dissolution and winding up of the whole business ; ( 2 ) the need to define the circumstances in which leaving the partnership is permitted or made compulsory ; and ( 3 ) the need to anticipate the financial and administrative consequences of the departure of members of the firm . |
| 9 | A quail or a mouse also has a relatively large amount of light coloured , ‘ fast ’ , muscle ( white meat ) and hence are forced to use energy in short bursts only to avoid build up of the toxic byproduct of anaerobic respiration , lactic acid . |
| 10 | If you consistently — and by that I mean once or twice daily — follow this waist plan you will feel and see a definite toning up of the whole line . |
| 11 | The royal couple 's individual humanity , rather than their status , has made most impact ; Charles 's unflagging curiosity , reports of Diana shaking hands with a leper in Indonesia , her instinctive picking up of an old woman 's dropped walking-stick . |
| 12 | They spurn any subjective dressing up of the naked data . |
| 13 | The most famous teaming up of the two brothers was in 1973 , with the chart single Frankenstein , a testimony to Johnny 's ability to adapt to a variety of different styles , an ability , in fact , which he insists was born out of necessity … |
| 14 | Ryedale councillors , who recently decided to set up of a customer-care department , have called for a report . |
| 15 | A message is made up of a fixed number of time-frames , and during each time-frame either f0 is transmitted to represent the digit ‘ 0 ’ , or f1 is transmitted to represent the other binary digit ‘ 1 ’ . |
| 16 | Each operand is a computer word ( either in the accumulator or a store location ) , made up of a fixed number of decimal digits . |
| 17 | The main board will normally be made up of a chief executive , who will hold the office of managing director , or possibly chairman , or both , and will include a number of ‘ heads of department ’ , for example the finance director , personnel director , technical director , and so on . |
| 18 | Instead they will be made up of a small professional core supplemented by part-timers plus a number of small firms to which they will contract out work . |
| 19 | The cluster is made up of a small quadrilateral which is distinctive enough , and is very characteristic with × 20 . |
| 20 | Yes it 's erm made up of a small proportion of the countries in the General , General Assembly , about five countries and seats on it erm basically the allies from the second world war erm and the other seats are changed around periodically between the nation , other nations . |
| 21 | Some programmes are made up of a straight interview , but your spokesman , may not actually be in the same studio as the interviewer . |
| 22 | Most hunts are made up of a complete cross-section of society , the only qualification being an ability to ride . |
| 23 | Apparently a nova is a close binary system , made up of a cool , normal star and a White Dwarf . |
| 24 | Stamford , one of Hoskins ' ‘ open-field ’ towns , is actually made up of a Danish burgh , founded in 877 on the north side of the River Welland and consisting of a roughly rectangular block bisected by the east-west High Street , and an English burgh to the south of the river founded by King Edward in 918 , and consisting of a neat rectangular area bisected by the north-south St Martins High Street . |
| 25 | The infill of the cave is made up of a wide variety of materials , from silts to large stones , and the radioactive content of these materials is similarly variable . |
| 26 | The Commission was made up of a wide range of eminent people involved in the existing mental health services , and it took evidence from a variety of those involved in the care of this group . |
| 27 | This is made up of a twenty-four-bit field containing the overflow address plus control information , followed by the record key , which can be up to sixty-four characters in length . |
| 28 | The marginal platform of the Z1 Carbonate is made up of a lower unit of light-coloured , bioturbated and fossiliferous carbonate mudstones , and an upper unit of reefs which pass laterally into oolitic and pelletoidal grainstones ( Fig. 7 ) . |
| 29 | When a thin section of a basalt is examined under a microscope , it can be seen to be made up of a closely-felted mass of interlocking needle-like crystals of feldspar , a millimetre or so long , with a scattering of more colourful tiny crystals of olivine and pyroxene and some black opaque specks of iron oxides . |
| 30 | Most of the conglomerates which were made up of a disparate collection of businesses have failed . |