Example sentences of "[verb] up [adv] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Always read the report you are writing like a learned barrister determined to open up ruthlessly even the smallest crack . |
| 2 | When spending power goes up relatively quickly the long-term growth in property crime slows down . |
| 3 | It is worth paying particular attention to one of two programmes or issues that particularly disturbed Mrs Whitehouse and the NVALA for they sum up quite neatly the major ways in which broadcasting is seen by them as falling short of the standards that , they suggest , ought generally to apply . |
| 4 | It could even be suggested to him that he leave Vietnam and ‘ take up once more the philosophical studies to which he had devoted a great deal of his previous life ’ , and it might also be suggested that ‘ there would be pension adequate to support him in those studies ’ . |
| 5 | At the back of the hotel the army suddenly produced a generator designed to penetrate the deepest slumber and then added a searchlight which they shone , lighting up not only the surrounding countryside in their search for Red Brigade terrorists , but our hotel rooms as well . |