Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] up [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir [ James ] Stephen added : ‘ The effect of adopting this definition would be to include under one description all the cognate offences which at present make up the crime of theft . |
| 2 | Science is a collective enterprise ; over time , researchers build up a body of wisdom which tells them which are the important variables to include when modelling a particular process , and which must be controlled . |
| 3 | Animals make up a category of painting with an uneven reputation , though the theme is one of obvious importance and interest in sculpture . |
| 4 | The amp 's master volume pot , headphone socket and mains switch make up the remainder of front panel controls . |
| 5 | An aid worker in Jordanian refugee camps ca n't get a TV crew from the West interested in tens of thousands of people from the ‘ Third World ’ who are about to die from starvation — all the crews are off watching Richard Branson pick up a couple of hundred westerners in one of his Virgin Jumbo Jets . |
| 6 | The snakes and the tardy remedy make up the entirety of God 's response . |
| 7 | the shifting legs prop up the hundredweights of dark . |
| 8 | Yanto drained the last dregs of cider from the stone jar and watched Molly clear up the remains of the picnic . |
| 9 | Alcohol-soaked cherries sum up the bouquet of this unusual Dornfelder . |
| 10 | Augmented by informal photographs , the contemporary words conjure up the feel of life in the 1930s , when cricket seems somehow to have been more wholesome and felicitous . |
| 11 | The other isotopes mess up the workings of the nuclear reaction . |
| 12 | Some 126 companies make up the membership of the BSIA . |
| 13 | In Guyana 's interior , forest-dwelling Indians make up the majority of the population . |
| 14 | On Sulawesi , these lizards dig up the eggs of the increasingly rare maleo , a bird which buries its egg in the hot sand to hatch out . |
| 15 | The different definitions open up the possibility of divergent interpretations . |
| 16 | ‘ operations whose implications bring up the question of a girl 's right to privacy about her sexual life . |
| 17 | Small-scale hydropower projects and electricity generated from waste make up the majority of the schemes which have received approval . |
| 18 | From your time sheet covering three typical days add up the amount of time you 've spent on all these activities/jobs . |
| 19 | The larvae of red worms crawl up the blades of grass and are eaten by horses . |
| 20 | French retailers hike up the prices of their mature stocks with even more frequency and gusto than their British counterparts , and this can make ready-to-drink claret and burgundy très cher indeed . |
| 21 | Often current slang and colloquialisms make up the bulk of such people 's language . |
| 22 | Five other manuals make up the remainder of the LIFESPAN documentation . |
| 23 | These assumptions make up a set of inter-related hypotheses about the processes and criteria of class membership . |
| 24 | Drawing a field means that the hounds are guided by the huntsmen and whippers-in across the field until the hounds pick up the scent of a hare . |
| 25 | Badlands surfers in reflective mood as lumberjack shirt-clad friend summons up the spirits of The Pit ( left ) ; the SAS tighten up ( above ) |
| 26 | Hardly earth-shattering stuff , but it was thought to have been a gaffe , and interviewers clock up politicians ' gaffes the way fur-traders hang up the tails of skunks . |
| 27 | Such questions point up the importance of recognizing how the reality principles of power are reworked ‘ intra-discursively ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ Housing problems take up a lot of the time in prison , ’ he said . |
| 29 | Approximately 150 people make up the population of Tibthorpe ; their homes with beautiful views over the surrounding countryside . |
| 30 | The sufferer has to want to seek help and will not want to do so if other people cover up the consequences of addictive disease . |