Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] up the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The saliva dries and hardens quickly and with repeated flights , the bird slowly builds up the line into a low wall . |
| 2 | In other words , rather than introducing other , more persuasive factors , he merely sets up the court as the arbiter of a medical issue , and decides that , of all the criteria involved , the crucial ones for determining how the individual is to be regarded by the law are the biological criteria . |
| 3 | Two of those are being heated by burning blast furnace gas and the third one has the cold air blown through it and the brickwork inside gives up the heat to the er cold air , warms the air and then that 's blown into the blast furnace . |
| 4 | However , the counties have locked themselves into a zero sum game as the competitive drive for success at the playing level , in the belief and expectation that it is this which will increase and sustain revenues , together with accompanying bonus incentives inexorably bids up the price of labour . |
| 5 | But perhaps this best sums up the case for the prosecution . |
| 6 | Sartre 's account thus sets up the articulation of history , univocal meaning , and totality as the indissoluble set of elements required for the validation of Marxism , necessary in order to save it from its detour from itself . |
| 7 | Linthal takes its name from the river Linth which drains the beautiful transverse valley that largely makes up the canton of Glarus . |
| 8 | The Act also tightens up the application of the Unfair Contract Terms Act , 1977 , in respect of services and disclaimer clauses . |
| 9 | The plan also splits up the Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research into two units from next month , with the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh being separated from the Babraham Institute , Cambridge . |
| 10 | This is called ‘ consumer choice ’ and it also opens up the possibility of charging for more services . |
| 11 | Harry Pollitt reported to the Central Committee of the Party in January 1936 that : We fight to affiliate as an organised Party , campaigning for united action on the part of all workers organisations , for a change of policy that corresponds to the desires of the Labour Party members , and that also opens up the perspective of realising at a later stage one united working class political party . |
| 12 | The growth is n't only unsightly , it also clogs up the intake to a water turbine that provides electricity for the mill . |
| 13 | This same guilloche also makes up the border of the saltire , thus enclosing the curved sides of the semi-roundels , all of which appear to have contained a seabeast . |
| 14 | It becomes ‘ automatic ’ and an attempt to introspect the components of skilled movement often breaks up the quality of the performance . |
| 15 | The very act of brainstorming often throws up the structure of the answer as well as the main points which it is necessary to cover . |
| 16 | He then reaches out picks up the foot of the bed as he said and lifts it . |
| 17 | In this passage , which is very near the end of the book , he ironically sums up the manner in which the hypocritical bureaucrats of Whitehall and Washington dealt with their own inadequacies when their major spying operation went wrong . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's different from England but they 'll soon get used to it ’ often sums up the attitudes of those who play a part in posting staff overseas but who have not lived abroad themselves . |
| 19 | The user simply lines up the image in the viewfinder of the fixed focus lens and presses the button . |
| 20 | In northern Europe , the common badger regularly digs up the nests of wasps and rarely appears to be bothered by their stings . |
| 21 | To the extent that policies are widely publicized and are regarded as credible by agents , the grafting on of the rational expectations hypothesis simply speeds up the process of adjustment to a lower rate of inflation . |
| 22 | I tell you what , this even picks up the girl over the tannoy . |
| 23 | It is a remark that effectively sums up the difference between himself and the rest of the band . |
| 24 | The ferric-chloride side of the cell then picks up the electron from the quinone reduction while the ascorbic-acid side donates an electron to the porphyrin ( oxidation ) . |
| 25 | Weeell , to our knowledge , no-one else quite sums up the paper over the past ten or so years — rarely has a pop personage and his relationship with a music paper produced so many sparks , so much debate , so much excellent copy , and ( ahem ) so many yards of Angst . |
| 26 | The success in putting behind American bars an odious dictator is all the more remarkable because it also neatly winds up the threads of the Iran-Contra scandal . |
| 27 | This neatly sums up the sources of wealth , external and internal , which paid for the great Acropolis building programme . |
| 28 | Alcohol is also supposed to have a ‘ warming up ’ effect , when in fact alcohol actually speeds up the loss of body heat , and can aggravate the problems of hypothermia . |