Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was one of a number he had picked up since leaving the charred ruins of Ankh-Morpork . |
| 2 | Very chronic problems can be speeded up by applying the same solution as that taken by mouth , externally to the back , thighs and lower legs . |
| 3 | An image , an acoustic picture is built up by scanning the focal dot over the specimen 's surface . |
| 4 | Because he 's European , he 's bald and the opposite of everything Kirk was and he 's always so messed up about making the right decision … ’ |
| 5 | I get fed up with cooking the same old thing — I like it if I can experiment . |
| 6 | This wastage can be shown up by comparing the theoretical mass balance with the actual mass balance . |
| 7 | This kind of deradicalization usually ends up by disorganizing the working class , since pursuing broad coalitions tends to break up proletarian solidarity and fragment socialism into workers ' particular interests under redistributive capitalism . |
| 8 | But Sartre 's own text here develops a dialogism in the tension between these two possibilities which becomes an increasingly dominant characteristic of his regressive-progressive method and ends up by detotalizing the very totalization which he sought to prove . |
| 9 | When a computer has a number of data.types , many operation codes are used up in providing the same arithmetic operation for operands with different formats . |
| 10 | Since social systems , in this instance like physical systems , tend towards inertia , the challenge to innovation is bound up with reversing the usual trend . |
| 11 | The reformist politician has already been forced to make compromises in the new party programme he has drafted , and has even had to put up with seeing the dreaded word ‘ Marxism ’ inserted into the version he will be proposing to the delegates today . |
| 12 | Do you want to move into the hospital altogether , and get me to put up with losing the little of your company I do get ? |
| 13 | They 're not too worried about getting up for work the next day . |
| 14 | ‘ I used to just swot up on learning the key words and churning them out computer fashion , but now I am more interested in what they mean . |
| 15 | By concentrating upon information-processing , cognitivists end up by describing the unthinking individual , who thoughtlessly responds to the stimulus world . |
| 16 | Marx 's and Engels 's work on pre-capitalist systems is largely taken up with showing the indissoluble link between the type of property and the type of relations of production . |
| 17 | Three generations of Dowdings have run the farm and used herbicides , pesticides and the best the agro-chemical producers could come up with to get the maximum yields . |
| 18 | The attempt to see the Christian message in the secular world ended up in seeing the secular world in the Christian message and then in confusing the two . |
| 19 | The volcano ended up by destroying the entire island . |
| 20 | ( It is easier to do so if you have friends who can own up to feeling the same way . ) |