Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] a [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a cautious start , Wharton , at 24 , a year younger than the Australian , took his time in the first three minutes before opening up with a series of punches in the next three rounds . |
| 2 | The car drew up outside a pair of high white gates . |
| 3 | I HAVE burned the midnight oil scanning the arid wastes of computer programming manuals , but at last a publisher has come up with a series of inexpensive , factually sound but palatable titles which aim to introduce the beginner to the fun that can be had with calculators , computers and cassette recorders . |
| 4 | It has come up with a series of proposals in conjunction with City solicitors Davies Arnold Cooper which , it says , could enable judgment to be reached in 38 days in an undefended case and 66 days in a defended case . |
| 5 | The media are receiving such an informed , dynamic and visually striking group with open arms : from picketing South West Water to protesting in full surf regalia at Parliament , from surfing in gas masks to demonstrating with a huge inflatable turd , the SAS has come up with a series of media-friendly stunts that have caught the headlines . |
| 6 | But the compositions , which are now built up of a series of flat planes mounting upwards behind each other in shallow depth , are clearly derived from Cézanne . |
| 7 | It is an interesting thought that this whole design has been built up from a series of interlocking rectangles . |
| 8 | He came up with a pair of binoculars and handed them to Culley . |
| 9 | A film is made up of a series of shots that may be photographed over various periods of time ; a ‘ take ’ that may have originally started out as three or four minutes in length may eventually be edited to a ten second shot . |
| 10 | And if the roof is made up of a series of roof trusses , these should all be joined up by timbers running the length of the roof to prevent a ‘ domino ’ kind of collapse . |
| 11 | At an early stage in development the human face is made up of a series of bumps , which looks quite grotesque , and there is little hint of the face that will emerge . |
| 12 | Perhaps we can say that capitalist equilibrium is made up of a series of moments of dis-equilibria . |
| 13 | If certain forms of history stress continuity , try to account for change , the history of science by contrast must be disjointed , for it is made up of a series of corrections in which the errors of the past have to be simply discarded . |
| 14 | It is long ( perhaps 50 to 100 bits ) , and is made up of a series of short encoded fields specifying gates to be opened and control signals to be transmitted . |
| 15 | The balanced tree index shown in Fig. 7.3(a) is made up of a series of index levels , each pointing to the level below it . |
| 16 | These interests may be different from other social classes , in which case the society may become stratified , that is , made up of a series of social classes differentiated by status and prestige . |
| 17 | This is made up of a series of 100-hour modules each lasting over two terms , with the certificate being awarded after 200 hours of study . |
| 18 | A ‘ Likert ’ survey is made up of a series of statements which are related to a person 's attitude to a single object , in this case using computers in school . |
| 19 | A module header is made up of a series of keywords ( upper case ) and their associated fields in which the user may supply some information . |
| 20 | Lough Lannagh is made up of a series of lakes containing deep holes and is known as a dangerous area for swimming . |
| 21 | Single widths of printed muslin are made up into a pair of 3-metre curtains . |
| 22 | Although the Victoria was not an especially large establishment , it backed onto an old warehouse that had at one time been split down the middle and then divided up into a series of small rooms that all opened onto a single long corridor . |
| 23 | You could sign up for a series of courses , which you could take at your own pace . |
| 24 | The spatial quantisation scheme in k -space then breaks up into a series of concentric circles about the field 's direction ( Figure 3 ) . |
| 25 | Wilson also announced that a new Hong Kong Technology Centre was being planned as part of the overall strategy to boost the economy , that an International Business Committee would be set up as a means of tapping the talents of overseas businesspeople for the benefit of the whole community , and that £1,600,000 would be spent to bring pollution under control . |
| 26 | My mother died when I was fifteen , but I was brought up by a series of incompetent governesses and I saw little of either parent . |
| 27 | The battle broke up into a series of duels across the skies of Scotland , from Edinburgh to North Berwick . |
| 28 | The rigours of the English winter soon drove them indoors , and the next few centuries saw the minsters linked up with a series of local ‘ parish ’ churches . |
| 29 | THE one-time sleepy world of pensions has been woken up with a series of rude shocks . |
| 30 | The successful launch of the DTI 's two year HCI technology transfer programme ‘ Usability Now ! ’ is now being followed up by a series of half-day management briefings . |