Example sentences of "make up a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The surface of the Earth is made up a number of plates , and these move relative to each other . |
| 2 | Cross-examined by Bert Kerrigan , QC , for Murray , Mr Mackie denied that he had made up a pack of lies because he held a grudge against his former boss . |
| 3 | I had made up a sort of flattened octopus-like creature , with electrically lit eyes , which we stretched out onto a frame and placed in a shallow trough of water so that it was only just submerged . |
| 4 | Trow Gill is dry , a grass slope rising and narrowing to a breach in the cliffs at the top , a passage through it being made up a tumble of boulders . |
| 5 | So , although it is possible to conceive of any event as an incarnation of the totality , insofar as it must itself make up a part of that totality in its determination , unlike the case of the boxing match , where we can define the overall entity ‘ boxing ’ , it still remains unproven that an overall entity , ‘ History ’ , can be said to exist at all . |
| 6 | This example was meant to illustrate the unexpected links that might make up a chain of natural interactions , but it is significant that no experimental work was done to test the idea . |
| 7 | You can also make up a book of spells and write spells on a piece of paper , or even a menu for witches ' stew . |
| 8 | uses it one way see they 're gon na make up a dictionary of how many different expr er interpretations of a word |
| 9 | The son of Topsider did make up a lot of ground in the closing stages , but by then it was far too late . |
| 10 | Each student can make up a package of tests to go for ; he may repeat those that he fails , without the social disaster of being kept down a year ; and he may make up a mix of practical and theoretical according to a plan worked out with his class teacher , and bearing in mind what he aims to do next . |
| 11 | Each student can make up a package of tests to go for ; he may repeat those that he fails , without the social disaster of being kept down a year ; and he may make up a mix of practical and theoretical according to a plan worked out with his class teacher , and bearing in mind what he aims to do next . |
| 12 | Weeks fifteen to twenty one is subject specific and all the details that have to come in and make up a record of achievement . |
| 13 | The chairmen of these committees made up a Board of Ministers . |
| 14 | In the year 18 — you made up a mixture of chemical powders for Doctor Henry Jekyll . |
| 15 | So I made up a couple of bottles for them and they said " Oh . " . |
| 16 | She just made up a load of stories to cheer herself up . ’ |
| 17 | Then , as another kind of exorcism , I made up a list of : |
| 18 | If it was a complex curve , starting lazy and getting tight , say , Flynn made up a set of templates , each consisting of a plank and three nails to mark the tangent and the offset sighting lines . |
| 19 | Steel-Maitland , Boraston , Jenkins and Fraser made up a team of experts , all of sufficient status to deal with politicians who might call into the office ; the work of the office was departmentalized for the first time and the heads of department brought together into a supervising board . |
| 20 | He liked the Latin name so much that he made up a sort of rhyme about it and chanted this as he went upstairs : |
| 21 | Oil production will fall by about 5% to make up 26% of total production while coal production will increase by 60%to make up a proportion of energy production similar to 1983 . |
| 22 | Animals make up a category of painting with an uneven reputation , though the theme is one of obvious importance and interest in sculpture . |
| 23 | And between them they make up a total of thirty-eight different characters . |
| 24 | Ants , aphids and plants together make up a kind of farming economy based on sugar . |
| 25 | 4 Make up a continuation of the story , using any clues you can find . |
| 26 | Nor is science concerned with just the kinds of generalization that make up a theory of determinism with respect to our lives . |
| 27 | Do n't take along a shade fringe with dozens of colours — pull out a few ‘ whiskers ’ in basic shades and make up a fringe of your own . |
| 28 | They make up a group of institutions which has been described as the ‘ third force ’ in higher education , alongside the universities and polytechnics , and are known variously as colleges of higher education , institutes of higher education , colleges of education or just plain colleges . |
| 29 | These assumptions make up a set of inter-related hypotheses about the processes and criteria of class membership . |
| 30 | Then make up a minimum of 650 calories ( more , if you are allowing yourself between 1,000 and 1,500 a day ) from Fibre-Filler ( see page 65 ) and the meals on the F-Plan menus . |