Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] up the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | or pick up the aesthetics of road-haulage . |
| 2 | He continues pouring from one container to another , and after lots of experience and conversation with the adults around him can begin to estimate how much he is going to need to fill the guinea pig 's water bowl or top up the vase of flowers . |
| 3 | Staff work together and are supportive of each other and have been involved in the decision-making process through the various ‘ teams ’ that make up the management of the school . |
| 4 | Now artistic intention can be seen more clearly as just one of many often overlapping strands — ideological , economic , social , political — that make up the work of art , whether literary text , painting , or sculpture . |
| 5 | Church & Co has been producing shoes in Northampton since 1873 and here is an excellent opportunity to see the many processes that make up the manufacture of men 's welted shoes . |
| 6 | The large size of the Faculty allows unparalleled opportunities for postgraduate study and the diversity and breadth of interest is represented by the twenty-one departments that make up the Faculty of Arts . |
| 7 | Nor is it just the lawns and bungalows and supermarkets of what was once the Canal Zone that make up the fabric of a colonialism with which several European countries have been historically familiar . |
| 8 | The Museum is on the eastern spit of one of the hundred islands that make up the city of Leningrad , and the spit links two of its six hundred and twenty bridges . |
| 9 | What are the threads that make up the pattern of your life ? |
| 10 | It is not difficult to imagine that the impact of the crash caused damage to almost all the various spindles that make up the centre-pieces of many of the sub-assemblies . |
| 11 | One or two of the few houses that make up the hamlet of San Sano were acquired and transformed by the owner with great mastery into the attractive Hotel Residence San Sano , Signor Matarazzo 's taste runs to what could be called a ‘ glorification of simplicity ’ . |
| 12 | This lies behind the very large number of habitual activities that make up the routines of ordinary day-to-day life . |
| 13 | In its most general form theoretical practice does not only include scientific theoretical practice , but also pre-scientific theoretical practice , that is , ‘ ideological ’ theoretical practice ( the forms of ‘ knowledge ’ that make up the pre-history of science , and their ‘ philosophies ’ ) . |
| 14 | This rectified image was then subsetted to give an area covering the 49 wards that make up the districts of Oadby and Wigston , Leicester , and Charnwood in northern Leicestershire ( Fig. 5.1 ) . |
| 15 | Of the 49 movements that make up the collection of 1708 , 35 are connected by incipit to at least one other in the same tonality . |
| 16 | The prominent white clasts are fragments of anorthosites — calcium and aluminium-rich rocks that make up the bulk of the lunar highlands crust and give it the light colour that is visible from Earth . |
| 17 | In the week before the stranding several people , mainly fishermen , claimed to have seen whales entering the Wash , perhaps in pursuit of the fish that make up the bulk of their diet . |
| 18 | Hence some kinds of reading lead to more intellectually-demanding thought , challenging ideas , concepts and structures that build up the skills of critical observation , bodies of knowledge , and , at a further stage , wisdom . |
| 19 | By 1930 Addis Ababa was in a vast wood that spread up the slopes of the Entoto hills . |
| 20 | Measures that drive up the costs of waste disposal may appear to fulfil the principle that polluters should pay for the dirt they create ; but they also encourage waste to end up where it should not . |
| 21 | Supermarket and delicatessen shelves are often stocked with many interesting tins and bottles of sauces that conjure up the promise of the Orient with their exotic names . |
| 22 | We are glad that is able to be with us twice this season , and that has agreed to continue her regular music lessons for the early birds as well as taking a number of sessions. , and make up the rest of the team and we all look forward to working with you . |
| 23 | Think of India or the hippy trail to Kathmandu and pick up the hint of the free-wheeling late Sixties flower-power look . |
| 24 | When approached by a possible killer they hide their real heads and raise up the tips of their tails . |
| 25 | It was said that ‘ When he prayed his soul took wing for heaven and wrapt up the souls of others with him . ’ |
| 26 | We must take heart from our experience in Hyde Park , we must nurture that support and build up the confidence of our members . |
| 27 | Pausing long enough at Bingen to have a coffee and look at maps , I decide it is time to abandon the Rhine for a while and cut up the valley of the river Nahe towards Idar-Oberstein and the Palatinate Forest . |
| 28 | Turn somersaults and climb up the underside of a ladder with your armour on . |
| 29 | In the United States during the 1920s , job security and internal ‘ job ladders ’ ( i.e. promotion from within the firm ) began to be introduced , it has been claimed , partly in order to differentiate ( the semi-skilled ) labour force and break up the sense of solidarity that united a firm 's workers in collective opposition to their employer — and they were to prove particularly effective in forestalling unionism ( Edwards , 1979 ) . |
| 30 | He could always get old Benny Robinson , his helper , to sweep the place up and tie up the piles of cardboard , but Benny had already swept up twice that day and he was now busy sorting out bundles of twine which had fallen out of a damaged carton and become unwound . |