Example sentences of "up the [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finland also attempted to shore up the markka with the appointment of a new woman central bank governor , Sirkka Haemaelaeinen , described by one banker as a ‘ market orientated tough egg ’ . |
| 2 | Almost all of the remaining capital required to make up the £1551 millions invested came from borrowing . |
| 3 | Together they make up the species called Felis sylvestris . |
| 4 | Natural selection was a process taking place within the whole breeding population making up the species , and if a division were to occur , the single original population must somehow be split into several distinct subpopulations that did not interbreed . |
| 5 | Many of the botanists who studied the adaptation of species to extreme environments became convinced that the effect of the climate upon an individual plant could be transmitted to its offspring , thus building up the species ' level of adaptation through a Lamarckian process . |
| 6 | FARM Minister John Gummer faces a Commons grilling after a food firm picked up the £2,600 bill to landscape his garden . |
| 7 | George was second out of the hat and picks up the £100 second prize , while Yvonne is £50 better-off in third place . |
| 8 | After all , British taxpayers are picking up the £60 million bill and we ought to be told a lot more about why it happened and why so much damage was caused . |
| 9 | Glenister , 30 , hitched up the 19ft yacht and towed it to his home in Chawleigh , Devon , four miles away , Exeter magistrates were told . |
| 10 | Bob Wall , engaged in his first big transfer deal at Arsenal as Chapman 's assistant , takes up the story. : |
| 11 | ‘ We called Keith ‘ the hunataway ’ , like the dogs that round up the sheep . |
| 12 | The following morning they lit the oil-lamp in the shrine and loaded up the sheep . |
| 13 | Scott the collie has his work cut out as he rounds up the sheep at Camp Farm . |
| 14 | Bill , the first footman , who had nothing to tell him , said his foot itched to kick him up the b.t.m. , while Mary said she felt she was being taken by one of those continental gigolos to the Strand Corner House , as a preliminary to being seduced . |
| 15 | ‘ He 's sawn up the logs. , |
| 16 | To tidy up the l.e.d. holes , use panel bushes which fit into the 6mm ( ¼″ ) holes already drilled and the l.e.d.s themselves then snap into these . |
| 17 | TODAY snapped up the £5.25 china corgi she had her eye on . |
| 18 | ‘ Shut up the pair of you , ’ said Jay , feeling like a kid at Christmas . |
| 19 | C. W. Whitlock emerged from the living-room on to the balcony of his sixth-floor Manhattan apartment , picked up the pair of tongs hanging beside the portable barbecue and prodded the simmering charcoal briquettes through the bars of the grill . |
| 20 | A month ago MB Group used up the £164m cash proceeds of its Carnaud merger by purchasing ABS Holdings for $300m ( £194m ) to make it the second largest cheque printer in the US . |
| 21 | The US is buying up the salmon fishing rights of Greenland 's fishing industry in an attempt to restore the salmon population of its own rivers . |
| 22 | Daniel had meanwhile built up the works , from a large smelter in three storeys to coal-sheds , workshops , a stamp mill , and housing in Brigham , almost a mile east of Keswick on the river Greta . |
| 23 | Cockroaches crawl inside machinery such as tape recorders and computers and gum up the works . |
| 24 | We order a further 1,000kg at £5/kg to make up the 3,000kg . |
| 25 | Exceptions have been made in four areas where the high incidence of large industrial users quickly took up the 15% , but attempts by the EIUG to have the concessions extended have been rebuffed by Littlechild . |
| 26 | He had deserved all he got — was that what ministers and teachers were paid for ? to draw up the militia lists and condemn the young men to the barracks and the camps , to swamp fever in the Indies and their legs and arms blown off ? |
| 27 | The plea bargain agreed between Exxon , the Justice Department and the state of Alaska had set the company 's total liability at $1 billion : $900m of this was a civil settlement to meet costs incurred by the government in cleaning up the 11m gallons of oil spilt into Prince William Sound ; the other $100m was a fine , payable to the Treasury , to settle the four criminal charges . |
| 28 | The Commission aims to open up the £60billion telecoms industry as part of the 1992 single European market . |
| 29 | REJIG the music , liven up the graphics , install a hi-tech set and what do you get ? |
| 30 | Mark the hemline on the curtain fabric by turning up the 15cm ( 6in ) hem allowance to the wrong side , and press . |