Example sentences of "up of a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Such incentives might be made up of a share of the surplus which the bureaucrats could appropriate ; ‘ deferred prizes ’ for keeping a bureau 's output within what was promised in a budget-output proposal and for returning money to the general fund during an official 's tenure of office ; and allocations towards supplementary activities such as travel budgets .
2 Usually such organisations are built up of a multiplicity of smaller gangs .
3 Somerset 's governmental changes included the legalization of the English language as the official medium , the introduction of English currency , the setting up of a council of advice , and attempts to ameliorate the treatment of slaves in accordance with new policies laid down in London .
4 The main points in the communique which was immediately issued included , a ) parallel statements by each government regarding the status of Northern Ireland b ) the setting up of a Council of Ireland c ) the setting up of a joint committee to consider the creation of a law enforcement area covering the whole island d ) consultation on , and coordination of , policing .
5 The migrating cells may be made up of a mixture of all the different cell types in immature form , that go to all the sites and a particular type survives only if it arrives at an appropriate site — a sort of cell selection .
6 Inactivation of the X chromosome is random so that the early embryo is made up of a mixture of cells in which one or other of the X chromosomes is inactivated .
7 These zones may be made up of a mixture of land uses .
8 The Situationist Scrapbook includes only two synoptical essays , the rest being made up of a selection of documents produced in various parts of Europe and Britain from the fifties to the eighties , some of which predate the founding of the Situationist International ( henceforth the ‘ SI' ) .
9 Does my hon. Friend agree that the secret of contracting out is the drawing up of a contract between those who buy a service and those who supply it , and that , together with independent inspection , that is an essential ingredient to ensure that quality and standards are maintained in the public 's interest ?
10 It was the strangest part of a detective 's job , this building up of a relationship with the dead , seen only as a crumpled corpse at the scene of crime or naked on the mortuary table .
11 Cork is made up of a myriad of tiny cells , each imprisoning a tiny pocket of air .
12 The conditions are made up of a myriad of separate agreements , some going back to the 1920s .
13 A three-year follow up of a sample of elderly ( aged 65 + ) in Liverpool revealed that 44 per cent of women and 40 per cent of men defined as having organic brain disorders had died , compared with 11 per cent and 16 per cent of the well population .
14 Each spreadsheet page is made up of a grid of columns and rows .
15 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 .
16 Mr Hardman was renowned for his sense of humour , as his contribution to an April Fool 's Day edition of Moneybox , shows : ‘ There 's case law , so far as the setting up of a trust for a cat is concerned , or a dog , or a parrot or a monkey , but you do n't have to have specific legislation in the Taxes Act because the normal rules follow .
17 My face seemed to be made up of a mass of needles or electrical impulses . ’
18 My face seemed to be made up of a mass of needles or spikes or electrical impulses .
19 Interactionists would question that implication , and argue that they are made up of a plurality of values and norms , which may often conflict .
20 The Minister announced the setting up of a helpline for the homeless .
21 These are made up of a core of non-polar lipids ( triglyceride and cholesterol esters ) with polar lipids ( phospholipids , free cholesterol and apoproteins ) located on the outer part of the macromolecules ( Galton , et al , 1982 ) .
22 Imagine a hollow tube made up of a layer of cells just one cell thick with contractile filaments located near the outer surface .
23 The Certificate is made up of a range of foundation units with specialist options .
24 Well I think the the overall housing figures which were contained in the approved structure plan , made up of a range of sites and allocations .
25 Thus there is no evidence as yet for any imaginative creation , development and writing up of a range of stories within the English fabliau corpus .
26 Cell walls are made up of a variety of substances of which only one , cellulose , is truly fibrous in the sense of being filamentous or threadlike .
27 A legal system is not a monolith , but is made up of a variety of legal ‘ arenas ’ in which many different ‘ legal languages ’ are spoken , and while some of these arenas may well be prepared to listen to the presentation of a problem in one jurisprudential language , others might reject it completely ( Ladeur , 1984 ; Sciolla , 1983 ; Dunsire , 1978 ) .
28 He had in mind particularly the getting up of a patient in the morning , the morning routine and also the going to bed at night .
29 It can not be made up of a wave with a unique value for its wavelength since such a wave stretches on for ever .
30 What they had said was at the end of the war they aimed at a safe and lasting peace , and to obtain that they demanded a setting up of a League of Nations .
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