Example sentences of "[Wh det] [was/were] [vb pp] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the conglomerates which were made up of a disparate collection of businesses have failed . |
| 2 | In the case of coal , this is undoubtedly true : it is the partially decomposed remains of forests , which were made up of giant clubmosses and other extinct trees . |
| 3 | Because of the accident that , in the early days , a high proportion of the best anthropological field research wan carried out in societies which were made up of exogamous unilineal descent groups , many textbooks give the impression that unilineal descent is the normal pattern in primitive societies and hence that the distinction between kinship ( of common substance ) and affinity is normally clear-out and unambiguous . |
| 4 | In the late Eighties Jeremy Ridgway and David Bennett , Zimbabwe-born but living in London , produced the ‘ Cum ’ paintings which were made up in part from semen and shown in New York . |
| 5 | He was now studying the crayoned pictures of the nativity by local children which were taped up on the pillars . |
| 6 | They allowed the blue entrails to fall on huge platters which were scooped up by young , ragged-arsed apprentices to be cleansed in vats of scalding water . |
| 7 | Dimetrodon and other dinosaurs padded about on the surface of the Coal Measures which were bent up into the great hump-like structure , or anticline , of the Pennines ( Diagram 4 ) . |
| 8 | This is a highly dangerous area to sail in because the seas contain many monstrous creatures which were stirred up by the collapse of northern Ulthuan centuries ago — Kraken , huge shark-like megalodons , Behemoths and even the dread Black Leviathan are all commonly seen in the waters north of Ulthuan . |
| 9 | One of the 8 Group airfields , I think it was Graveley , had had FIDO burners installed along each side of the main runway — that is , ‘ Fog Intensive Dispersal Operation ’ — consisting of pipelines of oil which were lit up in foggy conditions . |
| 10 | Often these were the starting points of big demonstrations which were broken up by the police . |
| 11 | B. Each town has a few factories , most of which were set up during the last 40 years . |
| 12 | Parisians saw the shape of things to come in the wooden triangulation towers which were set up throughout the city . |
| 13 | There were about twenty applications for the editor 's job , which were marked up under headings of ‘ politics ’ ( most got zero ) and ‘ experience ’ . |
| 14 | By 1975 the Worcester project was ‘ well under way ’ , and by 1979 all the beds and hospital places , which were provided up to the prescribed national levels proportional to the catchment population , had been opened . |
| 15 | Next morning at ‘ stand-to' ’ there were the usual reports of wounded which were backed up by the increased activity of the jeeps carrying the casualties to the rear , among them several Airborne troops . |
| 16 | Despite the happenings of the 400 years which have passed since the last of these buildings were being constructed , the quantity which exists in all European countries is testimony to the ability of the builders and the truly vast numbers of structures which were put up between 1150 and 1550 . |
| 17 | Alexei rode between dragons moulded from paper and paste which were lined up in a side street . |
| 18 | She turned as her maid appeared from the anteroom with two dresses , one gold and one white , which were held up for Jane 's inspection.Jane pointed to the pale gold dress then returned her attention to the mirror . |
| 19 | At first potential jurors were classified by ethnic group and caste , but after the 1840s they were assigned to one of three lists which were drawn up on the basis of language capability . |
| 20 | The first volume of her poems was published by subscription ( the proposals for which were drawn up by Mr. Garrick ) under the patronage of several persons of rank and taste , in 1748 ; as was also the second volume , of which the late Mr. Hawkins Browne was the editor in 175 … , both of them after her death , which happened prematurely by the meazles , at the age of 24 . |
| 21 | So the next stage in our journey was perhaps predictable — we enrolled for a course with the NCT , which was made up of couples expecting their babies at roughly the same time . |
| 22 | However , for many years North Shields and Tyne mouth were combined as the small County Borough of Tyne mouth ( 70% of which was made up of North Shields ) . |
| 23 | which was made up of local towns people , you know , and and er I mean you did n't have to be a a notary in the town to be on this er Co board th th You know you could be one of the riveters you were talking about earlier . |
| 24 | Before the 1983 Act , the C. and A.G. was head of the Exchequer and Audit Department which was made up of around 600 civil servants . |
| 25 | On Aug. 17 Rabbani announced that Hekmatyar had been formally expelled from the Leadership Council , the highest authority in the country , which was made up of mujaheddin leaders . |
| 26 | Ashore the troops were commanded by Colonel John Durnford-Slater , the Commanding Officer of 3 Commando , who did most of the detailed planning for the raiding force which was made up from the entire 3 Commando , reinforced by two Troops from ‘ No.2 ’ with additional Royal Engineers from ‘ No.6 ’ , Royal Army Medical Corps ( RAMC ) personnel from ‘ No.4 ’ , intelligence officers from the War Office , and a Press Unit . |
| 27 | S. Lorenzo-fuori-le-Mura , which was made up from combining two early Christian churches , one dating from 432 and the other 578 , was partly destroyed in World War II and restored in 1949 . |
| 28 | A new cult established itself over twenty years , its shrine being the domed town of the Keepers , which was built up against the entrance to caverns . |
| 29 | A judge in New York on July 11 ruled that the US airline Pan American World Airways ( Pan Am ) was guilty of " wilful misconduct " in its security procedures for baggage on its flight PA103 in December 1988 which was blown up by a bomb over Lockerbie , Scotland , killing 270 people [ see pp. 36409-10 ] . |
| 30 | His face was a mask of alarm and he was looking back to the office door and the cabinet which was pushed up against it . |