Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] up the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of these the most useful is Magnify which blows up the selected area by up to eight times . |
| 2 | One of the functions of the external stimulus is to promote an entry of external calcium , often mediated by InsP 3 , to give the primer calcium ( Ca 2+ ) which charges up the internal stores . |
| 3 | The building , which faces west , lies below a turn in the Sacred Way which zigzags up the steep site to the temple , on a little terrace just above the south wall of the sanctuary . |
| 4 | The 70° line which divides up the holding area is best remembered as leaning towards the far end of the outbound leg of the pattern . |
| 5 | It looks dewy fresh , but it does have overtones of a quieter age , and it 's the perfect foil for the earthy tones of the fabric which picks up the exotic theme we used downstairs . |
| 6 | And finally , it offers hardware and software maintenance , which makes up the remaining 39% , and which Bland said the company is keen to develop as it provides a ‘ predictable cash flow and profits ’ — customers tend to renew their contracts year-on-year . |
| 7 | Sweeney Agonistes takes its audience back not simply to what was seen as the childhood , even babyhood of ritual and civilization , but further down the evolutionary ladder to the most primitive level of that ‘ amorphous protoplasm ’ which makes up the human egg . |
| 8 | which brings up the main point and that is we have got to make sure that those people who are nominated or delegated within the terms of the contract , are people who have the knowledge and experience |
| 9 | The Mid-Atlantic Ridge will play an important part in our study of the nature of volcanism , and so will another , the East Pacific Rise , which runs up the eastern Pacific , and eventually intersects the North American continent in the vicinity of California . |
| 10 | But Andebraham Giorgis , who heads up the educational division of the EPLF , is as interested in talking about the achievements and challenges of education as about the difficulties resulting from the war . |
| 11 | She holds up the American education system as an answer to the supposed link between language and class mobility . |
| 12 | She cleans up the Black Prince and puts him back on his table . |
| 13 | But Haslam points out that the competitor who takes up the new technology when the patents expire does not suffer from this halo effect . |
| 14 | ‘ No , it 's just that my sister 's going out , ’ she says , as she picks up the various plastic carrier bags already waiting in the hall . |
| 15 | It is rightly said of him that he was always a pedagogue , but he is a pedagogue in the courtly nineteenth-century mode of Professor Agassiz , who sets up the controlled experiment and invites us to participate in it , not in the hectoring and charismatic mode of the star of the lecture-hall . |
| 16 | If , for example , as one moves up the elderly age range , the proportion of married to non-married decreases , and if married couples are in general better off than the single or widowed elderly , one would expect to find that average income would decline with age . |
| 17 | They are , what , there , they goes up the Catholic school where your sister 's kids go |
| 18 | Well I must say I much prefer it like that cos it covers up the ugly fence . |
| 19 | The route this year will once again start from Bournemouth Pier , run along the promenade up to Hengistbury Head , before leaving the line of the sea as it heads up the scenic cliff tops and down to Boscombe Pier . |
| 20 | At the instant of applying the excess rudder , it speeds up the outer wing-tip , creating more lift there , and gives the inner wing ‘ sweep back ’ in relation to the airflow , thus increasing the tendency to tip stall on that wing while reducing it on the other . |
| 21 | He digs up the bloody garden round the |
| 22 | Woods ' concepts of reality and illusion become blurred and he ends up the living incarnation of the television lie , developing a slit in his stomach that can accept video cassettes , guns , hands — anything . |
| 23 | ‘ I think it has something to do with the word counselling ; people seem afraid of it — maybe it conjures up the wrong image — that they feel they 've failed in some way if they have to resort to counselling . |
| 24 | It conjures up the bad image about opiates on a general scale , y'know . |
| 25 | Instead it takes up the double aspect , Januslike posture of any interpretation . |
| 26 | Right at the beginning of his book Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art , in the first chapter called ‘ Renaissance : self-definition or self-deception ’ , he takes up the old idea that the Renaissance was the expression of a specific ‘ spirit ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ We are very pleased about this as it opens up the entire country music market for us . |
| 28 | This test factor is said to interpret the relationship between the two variables ; it opens up the black box to show how the effect occurs . |
| 29 | Some nights , he calls up the late show DJ on the request line . |
| 30 | On the platform he picks up the local rumours . |