Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overtaking needs a bit more planning , but for those who have long since given up the chase and opted for a more dignified life , this is a lot of car for the money plus a BMW badge to ride behind . |
| 2 | That development entailed a recognition that the concentration upon language by the school of logical positivism , within which Ayer 's dismissal of religious belief emerged , might not so much show up the meaninglessness of theology as elicit its own particular logic Wittgenstein 's thought appears to show a progression from concentrating upon language in order to exclude certain forms of thought — as in Ayer 's exclusion of metaphysics — towards concentrating upon language in order to make sense of those different forms in a way that was sensitive to their particular nature . |
| 3 | Not all the personal pronouns in the Sonnets , of course , are significant of personal relationships , and for this reason it is not enough just to tot up the figures in a computer-made concordance . |
| 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 | There 's the call it 's coming in I knew it would work in fact we 'll talk straight away now just come straight through to me O nine O four six four one six four one and there 's another one there so just pick up the phone and hear as we sit and talk and chew the fat and stuff like that hello ? |
| 6 | I have only just plucked up the courage to write to you after a year and a half of reading ZZAP ! |
| 7 | I 've only just tidied up the front again last weekend . |
| 8 | So simply making up the calcium that astronauts excrete may not ensure that it is laid down properly in new bone . |
| 9 | To achieve those outputs the immediate suppliers , in their turn , purchase inputs from other firms , this constituting another set of outputs ; and so on back up the supply chain . |
| 10 | But the Anglicans , like the Lutherans , did not suddenly give up the composition of Latin texts . |
| 11 | These operate as discursive resources to be drawn upon and articulated in different combinations in particular contexts , thus constantly opening up the possibility of tension , inconsistency and contradiction within and between sites . |
| 12 | A plan like this not only shows up the priority areas and assists a sensible organisation of the workload ; it also shows where effort should be concentrated and helps in the measurement of success . |
| 13 | If you read again the sections covered by the mnemonic MACRO , you will appreciate that the best effects are produced when you do not merely soak up the words of the textbook author , like some print-absorbing sponge . |
| 14 | The most important thing was just physically keeping up the morale . |
| 15 | The inspiring influence behind an automatic promotion triumph is determined Boro will not just make up the numbers in the top flight . |
| 16 | Why not just pick up the phone and call me ? ’ |
| 17 | It was stated above that full indexing — knowing the position of a record on a track — is seldom useful , because it does not usually speed up the search for that record . |
| 18 | That just about sums up the book , but the Vietnam/Cambodia industry goes on . |
| 19 | He took a final pull of his beer : by the time he had finished it , Annie was hovering above him , her large red hands already noisily piling up the dishes . |
| 20 | On the other hand the journalist can not simply mark up the caption for printing ; it will have to be retyped . |
| 21 | All the rest of us are just here to make up the numbers . ’ |
| 22 | Dr Anusavice , a researcher at the University of Florida , Gainesville , is not about to give up the profession of dentistry . |
| 23 | It 's OK if you 're playing the same lines over and over again to thicken up the sound but if you 're playing different lines within the song as overdubs I often use different guitars to achieve different effects . ’ |
| 24 | The way he expressed it , quaint to us today , nevertheless neatly points up the dilemma : If one government has a right to require that children be religiously educated , so has another , so have all ( whether … in Constantinople Islamism , or Pekin Confucionism … ) . |
| 25 | It is not simply a matter of firing a dozen or so casters into the swim every few minutes ; it is a case of knowing just when to step up the feed , when to slow it down , and when to cease feeding altogether . |
| 26 | The relationship between waiver and equitable estoppel is obvious , as Denning LJ pointed out in Charles Rickards Ltd v Oppenheim [ 1950 ] 1 KB 616 ( at p623 ) : If the defendant , as he did , led the plaintiffs to believe that he would not insist on the stipulation as to time , and that , if they carried out the work , he would accept it , and they did it , he could not afterwards set up the stipulation as to the time against them . |
| 27 | It 's that flippancy that makes the listeners love him ; three hours ’ broadcasting a day is usually enough to use up the excess , but he does n't work weekends . ’ |
| 28 | She has still not given up the search , but she fears some animals are exported to Ireland or to the continent . |
| 29 | He pulled on his trousers and went quickly over to turn up the music , moving his head from side to side in time to the beat . |
| 30 | Within a very few weeks of his father 's death , Lewis found himself obliged once more to take up the routines of an Oxford term : weekly tutorials , college meetings and lectures . |