Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] [verb] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that a storm may show up the poor condition of a flat roof does not signify that storm was the proximate cause of damage . |
| 2 | The murals of Diego Rivera for the Secretariat of Public Education in Mexico City are admitted by the critic Antonio Rodriguez not to be all of an equally high standard , ‘ but what poet could keep up the same lyrical flow for a thousand verses ? |
| 3 | He said there was no reason to think the hotel industry would pick up the Scotch Corner Hotel and Croft Spa Hotel had gone into receivership and The Solberge and Kirkby Fleetham Hall were up for sale . |
| 4 | The wind would howl up the close entrances and whistle up the stairs . |
| 5 | However , Wanderers are true amateurs on the field and will no doubt battle until they give up , so let's hope Athletico can keep up the good work and send them home with three lost points and the Samaritans ’ telephone number . |
| 6 | After years of regular waxing , the hair follicles may give up the unequal struggle and not grow back . |
| 7 | As one senior chartered accountant pointed out , the faculty would open up the whole system , raise the technical standard of auditing , and provide a centre of excellence to help people improve their skills . |
| 8 | Although the use of outside contractors will speed up the regulatory process , critics have expressed concern at using the industry to police itself . |
| 9 | If rain does n't come soon , there will be no vines or raisins and the desert will swallow up the fertile land . |
| 10 | The college says the exercise will build up the young people 's confidence and help them to work as a team . |
| 11 | Since they look very similar even a regular buyer could pick up the larger size without realising it — but of course the scanner at the check out would recognise the different bar code and charge the correct amount . |
| 12 | Check that the user access file used to set up the necessary logical name has been invoked . |
| 13 | On Friday , Mrs Grant will pick up the 1989 Captain of Industry award from the Livingstone Industrial and Commercial Association . |
| 14 | The stories of the Last Days , when the Summoner would open up the Dark Reaches of the Spirit Lands and call down the worst of the manitous to lay waste the worlds of the white man and the red . |
| 15 | After a further series of internal meetings taking several days , they eventually agreed to pay half the sum , provided another organisation would put up the other half . |
| 16 | Bidwell believes that a group of about 50 consultancies will make up the final membership . |
| 17 | ‘ I suppose all the sorting out at the flat will take up the spare time for quite a while . |
| 18 | The theory is that the household rubbish will soak up the ill effects of the nasty stuff the not — so accidental practical result is a large cost saving . |
| 19 | Perhaps I might see in the rising of that sun some icon quintessentially Pacific , or think some thought which in a flash would sum up the essential message of the great Ocean . |
| 20 | A subject may take up the hypnotic suggestion that he is unable to bend his arm : ‘ He is actively , deliberately , voluntarily keeping his elbow stiff while simultaneously orchestrating for himself the illusion that he is really trying his best to bend it . ’ |
| 21 | Then in contemplating reneging the firm must weigh up the one-off gain , against the present value of the infinite future stream of profit it loses as a result of punishment , where r is the per-period interest rate . |
| 22 | When externalities lead to market failure the government could set up the missing market by pricing the externality through taxes or subsidies . |
| 23 | This was taken to mean that the Government would tear up the whole treaty rather than accept the social chapter . |
| 24 | These devices can back up the whole system or only those parts which you specify , and are very fast . |
| 25 | Information should flow up the overseas subsidiaries and to the parent ; decisions would be decentralised . |
| 26 | Missy had heard their engines long before a human ear could pick up the first faint sound and had come to tell her . |
| 27 | The men would run up the outside staircases and make straight for that . |
| 28 | You can see that I am representing any vector V as a superposition of two standard vectors 1 and 2 , with coefficients ( as we say ) given by the numbers unc and unc [ For the modern mathematician these numbers would make up the ordered pair ( |
| 29 | Mel will send up the ex-Mirror publisher in his TV show with Griff Rhys Jones , who plays a reporter . |
| 30 | The audience can pick up the dramatic thread running through the cadenza and make sense of it from beginning to end . ’ |