Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] up the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This lies behind the very large number of habitual activities that make up the routines of ordinary day-to-day life . |
| 32 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 33 | 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 ) . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | It is not at all clear that stepping up the competition between schools and colleges , and between the territorially ambitious award bodies , will produce the broad choices in education and training that ought to be an entitlement post-16 , just as much as the national curriculum is before that watershed . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | A rainbow is formed from the interaction of pure white sunlight with molecules of moisture in the atmosphere acting as prisms that break up the light into the respective colours perceived through our senses . |
| 41 | By 1930 Addis Ababa was in a vast wood that spread up the slopes of the Entoto hills . |
| 42 | And it is this regular aerobic routine that speeds up the body by increasing its metabolic rate and gives it the ability to shed those extra pounds . |
| 43 | There 's a castle , and a cable car that soars up the mountains to an area that has been dubbed ‘ the botanical gardens of Italy ’ . |
| 44 | It has been postulated that it was either the dinosaurs that opened up the way for the angiosperms , or instead it was the changing nature of the flora itself that was in some way the prime mover of evolutionary trends ; that , in spite of all the advances in jaw structure discussed above , they somehow speeded up trends towards extinction . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | The lamps were out and the curtains open , letting in an aquarium light that showed up the room for what it really was : a cold , colourless tomb . |
| 48 | These compare batching and sorting times with direct reference , for a file that takes up the whole of a 2314 disk . |
| 49 | Instead of joining the press of bodies that jammed up the aisle towards the crush bar , he took my arm once again and drew me in the opposite direction . |
| 50 | A snag is that breaking up the network into such small pieces might produce large diseconomies of scale in buying rolling-stock . |
| 51 | Measures that drive up the costs of waste disposal may appear to fulfil the principle that polluters should pay for the dirt they create ; but they also encourage waste to end up where it should not . |
| 52 | If one also supposed that only one or two electrons could orbit at any one of these distances , this would solve the problem of the collapse of the atom , because the electrons could not spiral in any farther than to fill up the orbits with the least distances and energies . |
| 53 | If you get rid of royalty , he remarked , ‘ what you 've actually done is to pull the root out that draws up the energies in your ordinary personality from whatever is beneath your personality ’ . |
| 54 | Zambia sucked the Munchis to softness before swallowing them , a procedure that took up the whole of the half-hour programme . |
| 55 | DeVore turned briefly to smile at Berdichev before returning his attention to the scene on the other side of the one-way mirror that took up the whole of one wall of the study . |
| 56 | Perdita , bra-less , in a T-shirt and a skirt that buttoned up the front for easy access , writhed and burned beside him . |
| 57 | Big brother was staying in Islington , making a living from TV comedy shows by being one of the twenty or so names that zip up the screen under where it says Additional Material By : , and trying to be a stand-up comic . |
| 58 | Another must is the booklet that sums up the findings of the World Fertility Survey , World Fertility Survey — Major Findings and Implications , and its companion volume of statistics , Fertility in the Developing World , both obtainable from the WFS at 35-37 Grosvenor Gardens , London SW1W 0BS , UK . |
| 59 | ‘ I dare say that sums up the extent of your humanitarian ambitions ! ’ she snapped shortly , then with an inward groan she belatedly remembered her worthy intentions regarding Sarah Chester 's . |
| 60 | From this point of view the French have never regarded fascism as an aberration , concurring rather with Césaire and Fanon that it can be explained quite simply as European colonialism brought home to Europe by a country that had been deprived of its overseas empire after World War I. French poststructuralism , therefore , involves a critique of reason as a system of domination comparable to that of the Frankfurt School , but rather than setting up the possibility of a purged reason operating in an unblocked , ideal speech situation as a defence against tyranny and coercion in the manner of a Habermas , it reanalyses the operations of reason as such . |