Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] up the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This uses up the energy of the photon , so it is absorbed . |
| 2 | Does this sum up the kind of house you want , or have I missed something ? |
| 3 | This opened up the prospect of democracy being installed not by a bourgeois government but by ‘ a revolutionary democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry ’ . |
| 4 | This conjures up the picture of Thomas the disciple who refused to believe that Jesus was alive again after being killed and buried unless he could see with his own eyes the evidence of the injuries Jesus 's body had received . |
| 5 | Perhaps this opens up the idea of the Government substituting depreciation accounting in place of principal repayments of loans but imposing the same control over the depreciation charge that it imposes on the minimum revenue provision . |
| 6 | This opens up the possibility of negotiations between the Commission and the parties concerned and the Commission has shown itself willing to resolve cases on the basis of undertakings in [ two ] of the [ five ] proceedings it has brought to date . |
| 7 | If the performance can be staged specially for video , this opens up the possibility of bringing in extra lamps and interrupting the action at agreed points to shift the lighting round to suit the camera . |
| 8 | If the marker uses semi-standard annotations ( e.g. ‘ Style-sheet not used : … ‘ ) , this opens up the possibility of writing a checking program that analyses the annotations in some marked work and checks whether the mark suggested by the annotations is seriously out of line with the given mark . |
| 9 | This opens up the prospect of developing the preliminary work done by Zamecnick , Stephenson and others into a general strategy for anti-viral therapy . |
| 10 | ‘ No , but I doubt you 'd find too many takers here willing to give up the delights of the West for a Russian dacha . ’ |
| 11 | It came to him that he could lock the door , there was a bolt on it , but this conjured up the vision of her battering on it , for she certainly would n't be deterred by the fact that she was raising the house ; she would know that Mary was the only one in it at the moment . |
| 12 | When a local policeman told Sharon Rogers that , ‘ by the time you 're 16 you 're going to be pregnant , homeless and stuffed up with drugs ’ , she believed this summed up the attitudes of many of the police and social workers she encountered during her offending career . |
| 13 | This summed up the view of many : in previous decades intellectuals were frequently punished for being politically ‘ reactionary ’ , i.e. rightists . |
| 14 | The descriptions of the author 's visits from one bureaucrat after another take up the bulk of No Breathing Room . |
| 15 | GORDON TAYLOR , the players ' union secretary , yesterday confirmed that he is still prepared to take up the post of chief executive of the Football League -despite a cold-shoulder from the League 's management committee and the reluctance of the Professional Footballers ' Association to release him . |
| 16 | Yet schools are prepared to tie up the time of senior staff , in effect the resource equivalent of at least a full-time head of department post , with the vaguest responsibilities for taking difficult pupils away from classrooms . |
| 17 | It was argued that it would be undesirable to open up the possibility of private prosecution , and that the sensitivity of the area was such that it was imperative that prosecution policy be consistent . |
| 18 | Unfortunately it is too far south to be properly seen from Britain or the northern United States , but when high up it is truly impressive , and it is easy to conjure up the picture of a scorpion from the long line of bright stars , with the ‘ head ’ and the ‘ sting ’ . |
| 19 | Having done so much to point up the plight of blacks in the 1960s and 1970s , Ali reduced himself to little more than a comic figure in much the same way as Johnson had . |
| 20 | She could n't remember the names of the drinks they were ordering , and she found it nearly impossible to add up the prices of drinks for an entire table in her head . |
| 21 | On resigning in June 1991 to take up the post of union Defence Minister [ see p. 38288 ] he was replaced by Sudhakarrai Naik . |
| 22 | A communiqué issued after the meeting , originally scheduled for July 9 , said that ministers had agreed to " hold a meeting in September 1991 to follow up the implementation of the Damascus Declaration and to determine the priorities suitable for that " . |
| 23 | At the least it is likely to drive up the cost of borrowing . |
| 24 | Many of those present had found it hard to pick up the thread of what he was saying and instead had thought with a shiver : " Needles driven into your belly ! |
| 25 | These show up the lies of the society clearer . |
| 26 | USL 's action looks likely to speed up the pace of this convergence , which may see it become Pinnacle UK before the end of the year , though that depends on how well the two companies work together in the interim , says Unix Solutions ' Quing Tsang . |
| 27 | This is rather like putting the cart before the horse and it is very difficult later to take up the study of the horse when all previous emphasis has been placed upon the cart ! |
| 28 | It is important to believe that you have acquired most of your ways of behaving because that opens up the possibility of behaviour being malleable rather than something fixed and unchanging . |
| 29 | They are all partly true and they all make up the totality of a man whom I think very few people — perhaps least of all Niki himself — really understand . |
| 30 | The machinery they use , their cars , their clothes , the tourists they encounter , the music they hear , all summon up the idea of a new , modern , ‘ front ’ region : one which can only be fully appreciated by actually moving and becoming part of it . |