Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] up the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we could precisely specify and conclusively verify every member of the set of observation statements which together make up the meaning of a non-observation statement , that non-observation statement would , in accordance with the verification principle , have its own determinate meaning and in certain circumstances be determinately true or determinately false . |
| 2 | As a matter of policy , the tutors seldom intervene , so pass up the opportunity of helping the students learn ; also ( critics say ) much time is wasted in interminable discussion over semantic niceties . |
| 3 | If you use drugs , you will need to consider that drugs can deplete your immune system and so speed up the progression of the illness . |
| 4 | safety candle , but it was very pretty , it 's from Marks & Spencers and she said er your candle has , has just give up the rights of last night . |
| 5 | I think you 'd really have to you 'd probably need to look at the booklet and then speak to erm one of the Prudential people about you know the amount of time you were considering paying contributions and the probably just weigh up the benefits of of each scheme . |
| 6 | Scramblers probably make up the majority of Munro-baggers , since to do them all you ca n't avoid scrambling , and will also be obliged to dangle once on the Inaccessible Pinnacle on Skye . |
| 7 | This will drive down the price and hence drive up the rate of rediscount ( r ) . |
| 8 | The results also point up the problem of maintaining the standards reached in the new services . |
| 9 | By selling more bills or buying back fewer , it can force down their price and hence force up the rate of discount . |
| 10 | As a result they talk a lot of bullshit about how this is their generation 's answer to LSD ( It 's our final frontier ’ ) and also call up the memories of past sins and traumas — playground racism , the suicide of a Viet vet father , some modish videotape voyeurism , bullying and murder even — which then return to haunt them in the real world . |
| 11 | Jenny Maxwell and Dawn Gill both take up the challenge of the presumed cultural and political neutrality of mathematics and , by means of an examination of the common ( and therefore frequently invisible ) setting for mathematical problems , bring to light many ( contentious ) presumptions about acceptable , appropriate and valued uses for mathematics . |
| 12 | Would it not be very short sighted of the western democracies — not simply Britain — to allow the countries which now make up the Commonwealth of Independent States to drift into such a state of anarchy that a dictatorship could well return ? |
| 13 | I have a wide vocabulary , which I am continually expanding , so I often look up the meaning of words to use |
| 14 | Once the group is there , simply pick up the icon of each of the programs you want to come up automatically , and drop it in the Startup group . |
| 15 | This leaves a nice little ladder which I zig zag down on both sides with my sewing machine , then cut up the centre of the ladder . |
| 16 | So the organisation of personnel , budget , physical specifications of buildings , office equipment , etc. take up the rest of the project document and its appendices . |
| 17 | And just when they seem engaged in revolutionizing themselves and things , in creating something that has never yet existed , precisely in such periods of revolutionary crisis they anxiously conjure up the spirits of the past to their service and borrow from them names and little cries in order to present the new scene of world history in this time-honoured disguise and this borrowed language . ’ |
| 18 | Women actually make up the bulk of underground workers in many countries . |
| 19 | They are men who rationally weigh up the advantage of conformity to criminal demands or staying on the path of righteousness ; for the most part they choose the former simply because it does not weigh on their conscience and because it seems more likely to secure economic and career advancement within the corporation . |