Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] up the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | or pick up the aesthetics of road-haulage . |
| 2 | it should also be possible to discover a number of laws which can be used to assist parallelism introduction , for example by making a sequential program more amenable to it , or speeding up the behaviour of a parallel network . |
| 3 | He continues pouring from one container to another , and after lots of experience and conversation with the adults around him can begin to estimate how much he is going to need to fill the guinea pig 's water bowl or top up the vase of flowers . |
| 4 | The railways also produced or speeded up the development of some of the early resort towns such as Skegness , Mablethorpe , Bournemouth , Swanage and Weston-super-Mare , and certainly allowed minor villages such as Cromer to become lesser resorts and ports such as Grimsby to be developed into major exporting centres . |
| 5 | In this passage Plekhanov makes the straightforward claim that , while individuals can hasten or hold up the course of events , determined by the ‘ social needs ’ of a society , generated by its forces of production , they can not change it . |
| 6 | Now that we knew the line , we progressed quickly into the wild world of the seemingly blank walls and hanging stances that made up the meat of the route . |
| 7 | They had n't heard the scratching sounds since Daak had straightened out the protesting shuttle and lowered it serenely towards the whorled ridges that made up the top of the space station . |
| 8 | The seven communities that made up the population of Møn in those days ranged round one or other of the churches and each community made itself known to the others in a common language of bells . |
| 9 | MPS HAVE called on the government to force electricity boards to use the heat that goes up the chimneys of Britain 's power stations . |
| 10 | ‘ The one that goes up the back of Monument Hill . ’ |
| 11 | Staff work together and are supportive of each other and have been involved in the decision-making process through the various ‘ teams ’ that make up the management of the school . |
| 12 | Now artistic intention can be seen more clearly as just one of many often overlapping strands — ideological , economic , social , political — that make up the work of art , whether literary text , painting , or sculpture . |
| 13 | Church & Co has been producing shoes in Northampton since 1873 and here is an excellent opportunity to see the many processes that make up the manufacture of men 's welted shoes . |
| 14 | The large size of the Faculty allows unparalleled opportunities for postgraduate study and the diversity and breadth of interest is represented by the twenty-one departments that make up the Faculty of Arts . |
| 15 | Nor is it just the lawns and bungalows and supermarkets of what was once the Canal Zone that make up the fabric of a colonialism with which several European countries have been historically familiar . |
| 16 | The Museum is on the eastern spit of one of the hundred islands that make up the city of Leningrad , and the spit links two of its six hundred and twenty bridges . |
| 17 | What are the threads that make up the pattern of your life ? |
| 18 | It is not difficult to imagine that the impact of the crash caused damage to almost all the various spindles that make up the centre-pieces of many of the sub-assemblies . |
| 19 | One or two of the few houses that make up the hamlet of San Sano were acquired and transformed by the owner with great mastery into the attractive Hotel Residence San Sano , Signor Matarazzo 's taste runs to what could be called a ‘ glorification of simplicity ’ . |
| 20 | This lies behind the very large number of habitual activities that make up the routines of ordinary day-to-day life . |
| 21 | In its most general form theoretical practice does not only include scientific theoretical practice , but also pre-scientific theoretical practice , that is , ‘ ideological ’ theoretical practice ( the forms of ‘ knowledge ’ that make up the pre-history of science , and their ‘ philosophies ’ ) . |
| 22 | This rectified image was then subsetted to give an area covering the 49 wards that make up the districts of Oadby and Wigston , Leicester , and Charnwood in northern Leicestershire ( Fig. 5.1 ) . |
| 23 | Of the 49 movements that make up the collection of 1708 , 35 are connected by incipit to at least one other in the same tonality . |
| 24 | The prominent white clasts are fragments of anorthosites — calcium and aluminium-rich rocks that make up the bulk of the lunar highlands crust and give it the light colour that is visible from Earth . |
| 25 | In the week before the stranding several people , mainly fishermen , claimed to have seen whales entering the Wash , perhaps in pursuit of the fish that make up the bulk of their diet . |
| 26 | Hence some kinds of reading lead to more intellectually-demanding thought , challenging ideas , concepts and structures that build up the skills of critical observation , bodies of knowledge , and , at a further stage , wisdom . |
| 27 | He was just recuperating after a fall , was overwhelmed by other commitments , and knew that to pick up the threads of work he had done 15 years before and write it up in French in only two months was a Herculean task . |
| 28 | By 1930 Addis Ababa was in a vast wood that spread up the slopes of the Entoto hills . |
| 29 | One day there will be a word for a woman without a husband or children that is not pejorative ; a single word that conjures up the image of a strong , sexual and feminine woman who revels in her voluntary freedom . |
| 30 | That may be the norm , but , of course , there is also the abnorm when things go wrong , when the fire gets out of control , when , perhaps , the fire brigade has been over worked , or could n't find their way for cigarette smoke , or for all that saturated fat that clogged up the wheels of their tenders . |