Example sentences of "[n mass] of [noun] [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | The barber took a knife to the thicket , weighed it when it was off , and gave her 2½ lb of hair wrapped up in tissue paper which the nurse briskly took from her as soon as they were outside because she did n't believe in being morbid . |
| 2 | According to many accounts , middle-class complacency was severely shocked by the evidence of the children 's condition : in Newcastle , for example , of 31,000 children registering for evacuation , 13% were found to be deficient in footwear and 21 % deficient in clothing ; in Scotland , 39% of children turned up in clothing that was ‘ bad or deplorable ’ . |
| 3 | That is why the people of Scotland rose up against the rating system . |
| 4 | This being the case , we only indicate the means of production and means of consumption used up for the production of the means of destruction . |
| 5 | These aims were to be accomplished by means of negotiation backed up by ‘ a powerful , well-disciplined and cohesive organisation that would represent such a potential threat in the event of conflict that management was unlikely to risk being unduly unreasonable in negotiation ’ ( ibid. , p. 313 ) . |
| 6 | Probably more than half of the two million living species of invertebrates making up this proportion live in the seas covering our planet , and perhaps half of these are found in the tropical waters from where aquarium subjects are collected . |
| 7 | The theory is that if museums save on salaries and paper clips they will have more money to spend on works of art ; the reality is that they will almost certainly be saving on the works of art to make up for inadequate funding overall . |
| 8 | With a pair of macaws fetching up to £10 000 and with an ounce of ground rhinoceros horn costing more than an ounce of gold in Asian medicine shops , the stakes are high . |
| 9 | When he comes back he is wearing a shirt and a pair of socks held up by suspenders . |
| 10 | ‘ You got to have a good pair of legs and a good pair of lungs to go up there . |
| 11 | Operation of the C 2 rotation axis shifts H a to where H b was , and vice versa , so the corresponding pair of arrows ends up reversed compared to the starting pair . |
| 12 | There is another pair of climbers starting up from the same ledge . |
| 13 | Also in 1990 , 15pc of mothers gave up in the first week , and 38pc by the sixth , compared with 14pc in the first week and 39pc by week six in 1985 . |
| 14 | The seminar will not only set the tone for the CentCom meetings , but will also form part of a worldwide series of activities leading up to WACC 's Second World Communication Congress in 1995 , which will focus on the same theme . |
| 15 | Fifty to eighty percent of my time goes to meetings , either with one of my engineers or in development meetings , or in planning functions , or — we have a series of meetings set up with this group since they provide a service to us — and oh , I do n't know — ten to twenty percent of my time [ is spent ] on the phone … and the rest of my time , either in filling out forms that I have to fill out or thinking , sometimes . |
| 16 | In the series of mothers followed up those who consistently reported the minor symptoms were regarded as neurotic or overprotective . |
| 17 | There followed a series of laws setting up separate schools for Sri Lanka 's different language-groups and establishing quotas for Sinhala-speakers in universities . |
| 18 | In the ensuing days , as the country suffered a series of aftershocks measuring up to 6.3 on the Richter scale , medical teams and supplies began arriving from around the world . |
| 19 | The volcano became active on 28 March last year with a series of eruptions building up to the major explosion on 4 April . |
| 20 | THE main public response to A Force for Change is the Plus Programme , a continuing series of measures drawn up by Deputy Assistant Commissioner Charles Pollard and Commander Alec Marnoch . |
| 21 | Where a series of films build up , into a layer , the soil may have differing characteristics throughout its depth |
| 22 | Bob will also supervise the Challenge which is organised in a series of heats leading up to a final where the outright winner will be presented with the Driver of the Year trophy . |
| 23 | Other studies have used a series of slides making up the story instead of a film . |
| 24 | The pit was nothing more elaborate than a series of planks chocked up to make an erratic knee-high circle . |