Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] up [art] [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 | I could so easily pick up a drink . |
| 9 | I 'm just frightened because I could so easily pick up a drink . |
| 10 | He told Granada TV 's This Morning show : ‘ I 'm just frightened because , God , I could so easily pick up a drink . |
| 11 | Today the pensioners still do not know if they are to get any of their money but the lawyers and accountants sorting out Maxwell 's affairs have so far run up a bill in excess of £30 million . |
| 12 | So simply making up the calcium that astronauts excrete may not ensure that it is laid down properly in new bone . |
| 13 | At least that will be the attitude of the minister who has scrabbled around ( perhaps even ringing up a colleague on the Saturday night ) in a desperate search for that elusive thing , the good children 's address . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Others claim that I went to St Tropez on a tip-off , bumped into Angeli and only then struck up a deal for the Daily Mirror to have exclusive pictures . |
| 16 | But the Anglicans , like the Lutherans , did not suddenly give up the composition of Latin texts . |
| 17 | One can not suddenly scale up a laboratory procedure by a thousandfold . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | These avenues have not only taken up a lot of the time and energy of the present generation of activists but they have also reduced the reliance on the politics of the street demonstration by presenting alternative means of expression and action . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | An agreement is needed , not merely to give up an amount of liberty , but to put it into the hands of some sovereign power . |
| 23 | The most important thing was just physically keeping up the morale . |
| 24 | The inspiring influence behind an automatic promotion triumph is determined Boro will not just make up the numbers in the top flight . |
| 25 | Why not just pick up the phone and call me ? ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | That just about sums up the book , but the Vietnam/Cambodia industry goes on . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | They did not hope for any tangible support for their undertaking , but a charter would give them some standing in England , allow them to create a legal government , and possibly convince any enquiring Spaniards that they were not simply setting up a pirate base . |
| 30 | You can not simply draw up a covenant ( or a Deposited Covenant Agreement ) to cover a donation you have already made in the hope that ACET can obtain tax advantage on the sum given . |