Example sentences of "to be [verb] up of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first period , local historical societies or historians with local interests are increasingly publishing lay subsidy and other early records , which permit a ( sometimes incomplete ) picture to be built up of local populations and the relative prosperity of individual heads of family . |
| 2 | Its profile was an irregular parallelogram , and it appeared to be made up of interlocking blocks of crystalline metal . |
| 3 | What is important is that your essay needs to be made up of logical or structural relations between points ( e.g. cause and effect , consequence , incompatibility , counter-example ) , not just of a list . |
| 4 | Most physiological psychologists expect the brain to be made up of complementary modules and that lesions will produce double dissociations . |
| 5 | New prisons are likely to be made up of self-contained units holding 50–100 prisoners , with cells opening into a central area for staff observation . |
| 6 | This life-principle was very important to the early alchemists : they saw it as so real that , not only did they consider all entities to be made up of differing proportions of dead matter and life force ( spirit ) , they tried to use the spirit as , in essence , just one more chemical . |
| 7 | When portions of present-day Indian pueblos occupied since that time are uncovered , their walls prove to be laid up of long pours of puddled mud . |