Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do , however , offer a two year option which can be taken by those pupils with a poor Standard Grade or pupils picking up the subject . |
| 2 | Anguita had resigned as general co-ordinator of the IU on Nov. 27 , after opposing some PCE members and members of other parties within the alliance who had argued that parties making up the IU should dissolve to form one party . |
| 3 | Indeed , he could modify his model by supposing that the gradient has its high point at the back edge of each segment , and that bristles point up the slope , and it would work just as well . |
| 4 | The Norman Towers — Entering through these it is easy to imagine the Knights of the Middle Ages setting off for battle , banners flying and a host of bowmen and falconers bringing up the rear . |
| 5 | We announced in the Budget new measures to help small businesses , including full relief against Inheritance Tax on most business assets , reductions in business rates and proposals to speed up the payment of outstanding bills . |
| 6 | Morton 's controversial final chapter is only a few thousand words long and attempts to sum up the marriage now but TODAY has discovered new revelations showing how close Diana came to walking out — and still might . |
| 7 | Richens 's lies and attempts to cover up the killing were not necessarily inconsistent with his defence of provocation , said Lord Taylor . |
| 8 | When I do that , it 's like summat inside of me is pulled out and streaks back up the street , under all the lights , right round the corner to where I ca n't see . |
| 9 | Battle of Britain 50th Anniversary Fly Past Spitfires and Hurricanes flying up the Mall on September 15th . |
| 10 | The simplest way of changing scenes is , simply , to cut : but this is often rather drastic , and risks breaking up the flow of the film . |
| 11 | Apathy is usually ascribed only to one side — the parents — and that is sometimes thought to give a sufficient reason for teachers and schools to give up the struggle of recruiting them as allies . |
| 12 | If branches take up the suggestions made in this paper they may find themselves having to increase annual expenditure . |
| 13 | Just needs a string of natives bearing head bundles and brollies to come up the footpath . ’ |
| 14 | Players and officials lived up the club 's friendly image by chipping in bonus money to ensure no-one would be left behind . |
| 15 | Tame films of this sort show directors and writings giving up the struggle to deal with contemporary anxieties . |
| 16 | The bag is difficult to get a hold on , but eventually he manages to secure a line to it and troops back up the road to the waiting vehicles . |
| 17 | Often current slang and colloquialisms make up the bulk of such people 's language . |
| 18 | It would be quite impossible to discuss all the plates and sub-plates making up the Earth 's crust in this book , and it would n't be very useful either , since some of them are extremely complex and not at all well understood . |
| 19 | An entrance porch , cloakrooms and lavatories made up the rest of the accommodation . |
| 20 | Our report concerns events which took place in the days immediately following the end of the war in southern Austria , the area of mountains and valleys making up the province of Carinthia . |
| 21 | In the infrared there are two wavelengths , at 3 and 6 , with extremely high water absorption , coupled with good transmission through fibre optics , and FELs open up the possibility of using a tunable laser operating in a pulsed mode in these regions , thus minimising tissue damage . |
| 22 | There are some boys and girls going away to school , their fathers and mothers filling up the moments of waiting with many injunctions in order to shut out their anxieties which their children must not see . |
| 23 | Various fees and charges make up the difference between the offer and bid prices , such as profit , brokerage charges , trustees ' fees and contract stamp , although the maximum permissible spread is regulated by the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 24 | Major alterations in the seventeenth and eighteenth-centuries covered up the marble and we have to be grateful to renovations in 1904 for the fact that it is now visible again . |
| 25 | This time Marko believed the mysterious child ; he went to the king and asked for three hundred barrels of wine and three hundred barrels of brandy , and for oxen to drag them up the mountain and men to dam up the lake . |
| 26 | Hadleigh 's winner came eight minutes before the end when Keys set up the chance for Smith to score his second with a shot on the run . |
| 27 | It 's very important that when parents split up the child has the opportunity to know where both parents are living and how to keep in touch with both of them . |
| 28 | As officials move up the hierarchy they may be more involved in policy advice rather than managing budgets or people . |
| 29 | ‘ The poor man at the gate , ’ that 's you , living here happy as sparrows pecking up the crumbs from his excellent table . |
| 30 | However , the same criteria should be applied to all rugs when assessing the suitability of the pile material and the clarity and permanence of the dyes , as there is no uniform improvement in the quality of these as items move up the price range from nomadic to masterworkshop . |