Example sentences of "made up [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reminds me of the joke we made up at the time . |
| 2 | Oh he used to wash them and he had a proper , he had a case what he made up with a rack so as he could drop them all in . |
| 3 | The agreement , like those that had preceded it , envisaged a directly elected presidency , and a bicameral legislature made up on a republican and a population basis , respectively ; central authority would be limited to those spheres of activity that had been specifically delegated by the members of the union . |
| 4 | Bordon came out for the second half in determined mood and soon Wilson made up for a number of misses by flicking in the third goal . |
| 5 | Our enthusiasm for getting afloat was an overriding factor — that part of the job remained the same and made up for a lot of hassle . |
| 6 | She made up for the difficulty by striking their fingers with a ruler when they erred , especially when learning the piano . |
| 7 | Whale meat made up for the lack of other sources of protein in the Japanese diet . |
| 8 | I would always try and choose pieces which I thought had a bit of atmosphere and mood , a passion which made up for the lack of presentation ! ’ |
| 9 | We saw no razorbills , which was a surprise , and the few little auks we saw were all out on the water , but the puffins made up for the loss . |
| 10 | He was careful , shrewd , and thoroughly able , and made up for the collapse of the older coastal trades by sending his ships farther afield . |
| 11 | A dark close , a dark eerie house with silent people inside , and confused , childish tales of evil spells and horror — all made up for the ostracism of the two Rosin children . |
| 12 | Still , she liked one or two of the collective , Xanthe had put some money in ( actually five hundred pounds , a fair whack ) when Miranda had asked her to , so she felt bound to give the paper some support in kind , and the office was fun — she liked pitching in with headings , sidebars , suggested stories , and pasting up till the small hours , with the help of ciggies and carafe wine ; the sex gossip was the best in town , which made up for the coffee ( though they could afford dope , they could n't rise to real coffee , and had at one time even resorted to the bitter brown syrup Camp , with the turbaned lascar on the label ) . |
| 13 | Not , however , a balanced diet made up of a bit of one and then a bit of the other , but an integration between the two . |
| 14 | Imagine a hollow tube made up of a layer of cells just one cell thick with contractile filaments located near the outer surface . |
| 15 | " Month " means a " calendar month " ( Law of Property Act 1925 , s61 ) made up of a period of consecutive days . |
| 16 | You might compare , for instance , a real letter from 1740 with one of the letters in Richardson 's novel Pamela ( published 1740 , and made up of a sequence of imitation letters ) . |
| 17 | We put on a display of marching or and er weaponry we 'd got in King George 's playing fields and er talk about the weapons er er er br brings to mind we had a , a weapon that was a anti-tank weapon and it was a Robin Robinson Heath er contraption made up of a tube , cast iron tube on a three legged tripod with er a hinge ring on the one end which had a recess for a cap and a trigger to , to fire this cap . |
| 18 | Next , in ( 17 ) , we have a minimal property complex made up of a property extended by another property , P P , alternatively represented as in ( 18 ) . |
| 19 | The community was not homogenous , but made up of a multitude of different groups with different attitudes and beliefs , while ‘ relations within the community , between different groups , are significantly outside the control of the police ’ . |
| 20 | Both sides made concessions , and under the terms of the protocol it was agreed that President Juvénal Habyarimana would share executive power with a new transitional Cabinet made up of a maximum of two ministers from each political party , including the FPR , and headed by a prime minister . |
| 21 | The Brazilian panelinhas are informal groups made up of a number of dyadic contracts , that is , people linked by personal ties — family , kin , friends — but the members are selected according to their occupation . |
| 22 | I would like to point out that the event was actually organised in conjunction with Craigavon Borough Council 's Community Relations office by Network Craigavon , an umbrella organisation made up of a number of peace and reconciliation groups in the greater Craigavon area , and not by the group identified by you which is one member of the Network and has in the past , like other constituent groups in the Network , organised events . |
| 23 | Also known as Fomorians , hideous demons in Ireland made up of a motley of twisted beast and human flesh , who pre-existed the Great Flood . |
| 24 | As we have seen , higher education in the Principality has assumed a quite different form from that which existed in 1970 so that we now have ten institutions of higher education made up of the Polytechnic of Wales , three national colleges , and six colleges and institutes of higher education . |
| 25 | The payroll is calculated using the permanent data stored on the employee record as well as temporary information , such as payroll exceptions , temporary upgradings , etc. from a holding file made up of the input from the batch screens . |
| 26 | The 1973 Constitution provides for a National Assembly made up of the Cabinet and 30 members elected by popular vote . |
| 27 | The 1973 Constitution provides for a National Assembly made up of the Cabinet and 30 members elected by popular vote . |
| 28 | The defence and prosecution cases are each made up of an introduction , testimonies of witnesses , and a summary . |
| 29 | It was expected to cost around £800 million when launched , of which foreign aid made up about a half . |
| 30 | At this point he said , quite rightly , ‘ Sod this for a lark ! ’ and is now planning to have a batch of tensile steel rods made up by a colleague who owns an engineering firm . |