Example sentences of "made up [art] [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 The chairmen of these committees made up a Board of Ministers .
2 In the year 18 — you made up a mixture of chemical powders for Doctor Henry Jekyll .
3 So I made up a couple of bottles for them and they said " Oh . " .
4 She just made up a load of stories to cheer herself up . ’
5 Then , as another kind of exorcism , I made up a list of :
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 He liked the Latin name so much that he made up a sort of rhyme about it and chanted this as he went upstairs :
9 Now that we knew the line , we progressed quickly into the wild world of the seemingly blank walls and hanging stances that made up the meat of the route .
10 An entrance porch , cloakrooms and lavatories made up the rest of the accommodation .
11 Some mill-workers on a mid-shift and a group of men crossing the river to look for work made up the rest of the throng , with the exception of a portly little man with a bowler hat , waistcoat and watch-chain , a foreman from one of the Govan yards on an errand for the Head Office .
12 The Tokugawa confirmed their hold on power by a complex structure of physical , political and economic controls over the several hundred local lords ( daimyo ) whose domains ( han ) made up the rest of the country , the samurai ( warrior ) class who constituted their followers and the populace who resided within their territories .
13 It was the veil that told it was not the garden , then the hat that went to race-meetings and the dressing-case made up the rest of the story : Maman was going away .
14 Photographs , coloured yarn and a short text made up the rest of the display .
15 Denis Brailsford , an inter-war spectator and a distinguished sports historian , recalled that he first went to football in the 1930s as part of his father 's extended family of miners and their wives , who made up the core of a group that regularly went to Mansfield Town 's home games .
16 Snell and Millar ( 1987 ) have estimated that about 30 per cent of all families receiving parish relief under the old Poor Law ( prior to 1834 ) were lone mothers ; and Thane ( 1978 ) has pointed out that , throughout the period of the operation of the new Poor Law , women ( often widows or deserted or separated mothers ) made up the majority of adult recipients of relief .
17 Amnesty claimed that Moslem fundamentalists made up the majority of the 8,000 people arrested for political reasons in 1989 .
18 They had n't heard the scratching sounds since Daak had straightened out the protesting shuttle and lowered it serenely towards the whorled ridges that made up the top of the space station .
19 A.J. Wickens , K.C. and other prominent citizens made up the Board of Directors and we began to look for commercial advertisers .
20 Together they made up the Board of the Greencloth , named , like the Exchequer , from the cloth which covered their working table .
21 But the appalling Carl Douglas and Rubettes are just as potent salvagers of memory as Mike Oldfield and the Pink Floyd , because theirs was the music of harrowing , lust-ridden parties and halitotic discos ; theirs was the music which made up the soundtrack of the most exciting moments of our lives .
22 Some of them made up the remnants of a tiny battery , source identified .
23 The seven communities that made up the population of Møn in those days ranged round one or other of the churches and each community made itself known to the others in a common language of bells .
24 Adam it was who made up the fires of a morning , when his mistress , who slept only fitfully at night , was already awake , Adam who crept noiselessly about the place , unnoticed , who must have seen them together last night outside the ballroom .
25 Many others made up the array of artisan manufacturers , either as independent masters or , increasingly , as waged journeymen .
26 How then did the south-western French domains of the Plantagenets rank in the hierarchy of fiefs which made up the kingdom of France ?
27 The blocking was all the various moves which made up the pattern of each scene .
28 Two skimmers to pole and bloodworm tactics made up the bulk of his 4–1–3 winning weight , pipping England international Alan McAtee ( Elton Tackle ) on 3–13–8 .
29 In that same year Welford Beaton argued that it was people like clerks who made up the bulk of the great movie audience and that they went to the cinema for inspiration .
30 The economy was not expanding in such a way as to absorb them in work , even if mothers of young children , children themselves , the aged and the disabled who made up the bulk of out-door paupers , had been able to take advantage of such expansion .
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