Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] up [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Intermediate and Interior areas together made up the Kandyan districts , the geographical area under the sway of the former Kandyan Kingdom . |
| 2 | It is an openness to life as it is , without falsification and without cosmetically touching up the serious flaws in human nature . |
| 3 | Although such heresies were far more common in America and in England than they were in Ulster , Ulster Protestants knew of these postures and could see that their own denominations were in formal organizational contact with other churches which did not move to sack ministers and theologians who had obviously given up the traditional beliefs affirmed at their ordinations . |
| 4 | These jelly-filled tubes have electroreceptor cells at their ends , delicate enough to pick up the tiny discharges of the prey 's body . |
| 5 | More might have tuned in to hear him but their radio sets were not powerful enough to pick up the German stations broadcasting in English . |
| 6 | Individualists who concede too much give up the very explanations which , from their perspective , make the phenomena intelligible . |
| 7 | The ticket clerk , who is a villainous-looking Copt , is apparently adding up the monetary results of his last night 's murders , and dislikes being interrupted . |
| 8 | I can only pick up the linguistic crumbs . |
| 9 | The Titfords , it seemed , had not given up the Miscellaneous Repos business for good : an unmarried Scottish lady in her sixties , Jessie Grieve , was staying with them as a lodger ; what little she may have paid in rent would have been very useful , no doubt , as a means of eking out the family income . |
| 10 | Gen. Saw Maung , the Prime Minister and Chair of the ruling military State Law and Order Restoration Council ( SLORC ) , who was believed to be in poor mental and physical health , relinquished the post of Defence Minister on March 20 , having already given up the Foreign Affairs portfolio in September 1991 [ see p. 38440 ] . |
| 11 | Just match up the famous daughters ( right ) with their equally famous mothers on the entry form , by putting a letter in each box . |
| 12 | and we will not give up the good things in life for Greenpeace and for a clean environment |
| 13 | This line effectively opened up the southern reaches of West Ham which until then had been deserted marshland , and focused attention on Stratford as a centre of railway activity . |
| 14 | erm This has a knock-on effect insofar as if they 've once given up the physical sciences , then it means that they 've given up all hopes , when they leave school , of following a , a job or a profession , of courses in further or higher education , in technological , engineering subjects . |
| 15 | But the latter were clearly hopelessly reductionist in relation to a concept such as this which at once opens up the possible significances of what was once merely seen as the aesthetic . |
| 16 | A quarter of a century later , it is a moment she can still picture in her mind 's eye and she can still summon up the painful feelings of rejection , breach of trust and isolation that the break-up of her parents ’ marriage signified to her . |
| 17 | On such capital-intensive projects , any over-runs can rapidly push up the overall costings . |
| 18 | He calmly picked up the fallen keys , climbed into the car and drove away , leaving the widow staring at her dead husband . |
| 19 | ( The reader is advised to temporarily cover up the remaining nodes . ) |
| 20 | We must not only abide by a precise form , but also build up the right waves of emotion to give it full human significance . |
| 21 | make a note to check any " odd ones " in other lists later match up the separate lists one against the other to make sure that each list contains a different sound . |
| 22 | Stewart-David completed the Val conversions and also built up the droppable torpedoes and bombs to be used . |
| 23 | I 've placed the background as an event , and have also loaded up the big trees as an actor . |
| 24 | Now pick up the important ones , sort out your priorities . |
| 25 | As indicated above , we have now set up a Validated Courses Section within the Assessment Department and ( ) is heading this . |
| 26 | We have now set up a Human Rights Committee , properly structured and managed , with a defined budget . |
| 27 | Now start up the main motors and our rocket thrust will counteract gravity . ’ |
| 28 | In addition to the established and highly successful Master 's Degree Course in Highway Engineering for Developing Countries , the School of Civil Engineering is now setting up a parallel Masters ' Course in Traffic Engineering for Developing Countries . |
| 29 | They had been brought here to round up the escaped prisoners but fortunately no one was giving them any information . |
| 30 | It will selectively build up the thinned fibres , across which osmotic diffusion will be most rapid . |