Example sentences of "[verb] up [art] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If programmes aiming to pick up directly beamed contact' messages from other worlds are starved of funding , what possibility is there of anyone picking up the incredibly faint traces of extraterrestrial radio leakage ? |
| 2 | Apart from that , life had taught her to pry because sometimes doing so turned up the most surprising things . |
| 3 | It was reported on Jan. 8 that former federal judge Frederick B. Lacy , the court-appointed independent administrator assigned to clean up the notoriously corrupt Teamsters union ( International Brotherhood of Teamsters , Chauffeurs , Warehousemen and Helpers of America ) , had banned one of the union 's vice-presidents , T. R. " Teddy " Cozza , for having knowingly associated with figures involved in organized crime . |
| 4 | However , herbs have always been used to pep up the more blandly-flavoured foods such as fish , vegetables and cereals . |
| 5 | Under this , the EPA is responsible for cleaning up the most contaminated sites and then recovering the cost from the bodies held responsible for the contamination . |
| 6 | She advises her clients to involve the users in producing a list of the problems they are expecting an accounting system to solve , in addition to drawing up the more traditional features ‘ hit-list ’ . |
| 7 | RIXI MARKUS , who has died aged 81 , was the first woman in the world to become a bridge grandmaster , and with the late Fritzi Gordon made up the most formidable women 's bridge partnership in the world . |
| 8 | It picks up the very dim stars . |
| 9 | In 1801 North Shields consisted of the old ‘ low town ’ at the bottom of and extending up the very steep bluffs at the river mouth . |
| 10 | One nineteenth century account of him reads : ‘ Strong minded but very illiterate … he made all his calculations by the strength of his memory , and was equally at a loss to explain what he had conceived to any other person , and from being lowly educated he had no means of conveying to paper his designs , yet would cast up the most intricate accounts in his head without difficulty or error . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You write up the more interesting parts of what they say and leave out the dull bits to do them a favour — if you like them . |
| 12 | There are ways of plotting the profile of the gore , and the mathematically minded will no doubt enjoy a computer exercise of setting up the progressively diminishing diameters , and the calculation of gore width at 10% stages from base to apex . |
| 13 | AFTER 21 years service has covered his drawing board for the last time to take up the more leisurely pursuits of photography and walking in his retirement . |
| 14 | More than just buying an operating system and securing a future for Novell , Noorda — a man held in high regard by a wide cross section of industry executives — takes on the expectations of all those seeing him as a Moses figure capable of stitching up the highly personalised wounds inflicted during the Unix wars and the aborted peace attempts . |
| 15 | Because of the harmony between foreground and distance , the photographers would perceive little need to blow up the barely perceptible shapes in the distance into ambiguous and grainy enlargements . |
| 16 | This theme — the need to be fair to ‘ the majority ’ — emerges again and again in this document 's defence of the rule , and bolsters up the most tenuous arguments . |