Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] up the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moving like the late Dick Emery in his ‘ Ooh , you are awful ’ guise , Standerline eats up the role of the camp gay explaining his troubled yet amusing life in brisk gag-heavy declarations . |
| 2 | The optimised X-Winserver speeds up the performance of X-Windows : DOS and Windows emulation facilities have been built into the kernel . |
| 3 | In words like ‘ potato ’ , ‘ tomato ’ , ‘ canary ’ , ‘ perhaps ’ , ‘ today ’ , the vowel in the first syllable may disappear ; the aspiration of the initial plosive takes up the whole of the middle portion of the syllable , resulting in these pronunciations ( where indicates aspiration ) : ; ; ; ; |
| 4 | Administrative support posts are becoming increasingly attractive to men and this broader approach to the core subjects opens up the market of applicants to both sexes who wish to work as part of the executive office management team . |
| 5 | This chapter takes up the theme of industrial determination introduced in relation to the Northern Region in Chapter 3 . |
| 6 | The monitor picks up the amount of ultraviolet or UV rays coming from the sun . |
| 7 | Main picture : The uncluttered bedroom sums up the atmosphere of the house |
| 8 | Tenderly : A 1953 jam session takes up the whole of one side . |
| 9 | The loss of McCoist opens up the possibility of Jess playing his first full international from the start , having been used as a substitute against Italy . |
| 10 | Ken McRobb rounds up the rest of the World Cup news . |
| 11 | This inelegant but graphic import from American business vocabulary sums up the relevance of finance to the building surveying practice . |
| 12 | With this paragraph in the preface to Newsletter Writing and Production Handbook for the Spirited Journalist , editor Alfonso B Deza sums up the philosophy of the handbook . |
| 13 | The final scene sets up the image of Suzannah and the Elders echoing the painting while reinforcing Tassi and Cauley 's conspiracy against Artemesia in the scene before . |
| 14 | For example , Chafe sums up the expression of givenness as follows : |
| 15 | Hercules conjures up the image of a weight lifter . |
| 16 | Super disk copier speeds up the operation of duplicating a master disk many times . |
| 17 | Identification of this group opens up the problem of the date of the king 's baptism , and by extension the chronology as well as the interpretation of the second half of his reign . |
| 18 | The order of salvation takes up the order of creation . |
| 19 | One advantage of using a hearing-aid is in hearing one 's own voice ‘ from the outside ’ — the aid microphone picks up the voice of the user as well as voices of other people . |
| 20 | Marcuse takes up the theme of domination through the ideological form of technological reason and shows how it is legitimized by the widespread consumption enabled by increased production . |
| 21 | In moonlight the white belly fur breaks up the outline of the hunter to perfection . |
| 22 | This theoretical framework opens up the possibility of analysing the process of technical change in a dynamic disequilibrium context and of integrating work in economics , management and technology . |
| 23 | With Mr Merchant 's assistance Stewart opens up the box of chocolates and offers me one with the hand that is n't attached to a pulley and the ceiling . |
| 24 | Notice how the grain goes up the body of Teddy , and his elbow nestles in the cushion |
| 25 | The video takes up the story of two of the characters from A Weekend Away whom we now meet on holiday on the south coast of England . |
| 26 | Its title sums up the attitude of many people to what is an essential feature of working life — namely , meetings . |
| 27 | His dying request sums up the faith of a lifetime . |
| 28 | ‘ Our income is a quarter of our previous police salary , and while pension increases remain practically static , inflation pushes up the cost of living beyond our reach . |
| 29 | The constructive theory builds up the set of achievable patterns while the destructive theory reduces the set of possible patterns . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , the example points up the paradox of the advantage to the teacher of having to experience new learning alongside and in co-operation with the children , and yet at the same time having to be an expert in the subject . |