Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] up the [noun] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. Member for Barrow and Furness ( Mr. Franks ) in the course of an extremely lengthy spech did not answer the question asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Islington , North ( Mr. Corbyn ) about fourth , fifth , sixth , seventh and eighth Trident nuclear submarines , which only points up the fact that this nation needs a programme of conversion from arms manufacture to material for peaceful purposes . |
| 2 | Whatever flickerings of potential this young tyro possesses , they can not cover up the fact that he is a painter with the imagination of a retarded adolescent ; no technical mastery ; no intuitive feeling for pictorial space ; no sensitivity towards , or grasp of , tradition ; and a colour sense rather less than that of Congo , the chimpanzee who was taught ( among other things ) a crude responsiveness to colour harmonies by Desmond Morris in the late 1950s . |
| 3 | [ BELVILLE absent-mindedly picks up the paper that PAMELA has been writing . ] |
| 4 | A more equivocal comment that perhaps best sums up the evaluations that led to RCA has been made by Timmons ( 1980 ) : ‘ While these measures [ in soil conservation ] have seldom attained goals , increases in soil erosion were minimised and occasionally soil losses reduced . |
| 5 | You could also bring up the point that learning how to study any subject successfully makes you quicker at learning new skills and better able to handle the unfamiliar skills you will have to learn as part of the job . |
| 6 | This is particularly true , and actually is what I 'm leading to in this story is that three years later , when Robert Priest hit Esquire two years later , the Rolling Stone look was supplanted by the Esquire look in terms of popular design and imagination , and I remember people said to me ‘ well Roger what are you going to do , your style is out of date ’ and my reaction to this was ‘ well , hold on a second , it 's not my style for one , and number two this is just traditional style , this was never intended to be a trend ’ , and fortunately it 's sort of gone — right now it 's back — so Rolling Stone even picked up the format that , you know , the Morris–Jenson typeface that we did for headline and stuff , and it 's back in there . |
| 7 | One way to ward off these unwelcome little indicators of stress would seem obvious — immediately give up the exercise that brings them on , and reach for a stiff , hugely relaxing drink . |
| 8 | So simply making up the calcium that astronauts excrete may not ensure that it is laid down properly in new bone . |
| 9 | Yet he could n't quite drum up the enmity that seemed necessary in the circumstances , and that fact quite pleased him , for it proved what an enduring thing male friendship was , even if Jim did look to him less than his old self , and over-dressed in foreigners ' plumes that must have cost a packet in duty , the jacket obviously being pure wool . |
| 10 | It 's not a hard walk up the spur that leads to the summit , and the lust to be able to see far into the rough bounds of Knoydart hiding behind Sgurr Thuilm will motivate even the most indolent hiker . |
| 11 | Ollie had then built up the impression that he actually had a right to all these advantages and was , therefore , a very important dog in the pack — not important enough to challenge the humans , but able to get their attention when he wanted it , and to defend his position against Stan . |
| 12 | Are we then taking up the point that Liz Spokes made on item one a , on page seven . |
| 13 | We simply do not have enough evidence yet to back up the claim that ‘ people are almost certainly ill , dead , or dying because of these sloppy waste disposal activities ’ ( Openshaw et al. 1989 : 12 ) . |
| 14 | I shall certainly take up the point that the hon. Gentleman has raised about London docklands . |
| 15 | They also beat West Ham in the Zenith Data Systems Cup and never gave up the belief that despite being under pressure they could record a third victory last night . |