Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] up [num] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly working class audiences were the heaviest listeners to BBC Radio 1 and 2 and ILR stations , and middle class listeners made up two-thirds of the audience for BBC Radio 3 and 4 . |
| 2 | Not all Unionist MPs ever supported the coalition , but almost all of them took the Whip at some time ; the Unionists made up three-quarters of the government side of the House . |
| 3 | The closure was ordered last night after an engineer discovered one of two vertical pins holding up one of the bridge supports had developed a six inch crack . |
| 4 | Shales picked up one of the newspapers in front of him and pitched it down the table in Dowd 's direction . |
| 5 | Dictionaries describe a monograph as an account of a single subject ; by this definition monographs make up one of the most common categories of art publishing . |
| 6 | Workmen cleaning up one of the less contaminated rooms hastened out in alarm after their air meters showed they were breathing dangerously low levels of oxygen . |