Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] [verb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very small windows are usually better just left , and given a plant , vase of flowers or object to cheer up the sill . |
| 2 | I referred to Yorkshire six minutes ago — it has taken the hon. Gentleman that long to work up a head of steam . |
| 3 | The assumption remains that most women will continue to be satisfied with conventional provision and that the others , the ‘ more liberated ’ perhaps , can choose women 's studies options which now exist amidst the many other courses that go to make up a centre programme . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , it is possible to describe some of the typical components that go to make up a paradigm . |
| 5 | Figure 11.4 shows the complicated web of paper transfers that go to make up a transaction . |
| 6 | Whatever the actual part you play in the business , or indeed , if you have to play all the parts that go to make up a funeral directing business , what is your attitude towards the job as a whole ? |
| 7 | The nation-state , therefore , is the spatial reference point for most of the crucial transnational practices that go to make up the structures of the global system , in the sense that most transnational practices intersect in particular countries and come under the jurisdiction of particular nation-states . |
| 8 | They are doing work which every compositor is called upon to do at some time or another , that is plain composition , " but he added that the men do " the many operations that go to make up the comp 's calling " . |
| 9 | Which system we would have to decide , who draws up the list er would the list be a U K one , a regional one or would it be one in the separate countries that go to make up the U K. A huge amount of discussion there , not a chance missed at all , er he wanted a separate seat for for Cornwall . |
| 10 | The term hardware refers to the electronic and electromechanical bits and pieces that go to make up the machine . |
| 11 | Latent inhibition training can be expected , therefore , to establish a network of associations among the component parts that go to make up the stimulus . |
| 12 | Of all the elements that go to make up the accident causation system , the one that has received the least attention in residential areas is the design of the road network itself . |
| 13 | The Book of Earth , the cornucopia of all the tiny books that go to make up The Book of Languages and even more disconcertingly , The Book of Mirrors , are all locked up in a glass case . |
| 14 | Never rinse reusable filter materials in tap water and never use detergents or you will damage or totally destroy the beneficial bacteria that have built up the efficiency of the filter unit . |
| 15 | Connections of seven of the 11-strong field have persuaded themselves that their chances merit the late production of a £10,000 entry fee , beliefs that have pumped up the penalty value to over £133,000 . |
| 16 | The efforts made by Sussex police — and the three other UK forces that have set up a specialist antiques squad — are hampered by the fact that knocking in itself is not illegal . |
| 17 | In fact the Council that have put up the money to buy Medley boat station was in fact the Oxford City Council , so it is actually slightly different |
| 18 | Choosing the right time and place to bring up the subject of safer sex is important . |
| 19 | Snow and slush messing up the pavements . |
| 20 | When they stand at the watchnight service and hear those self-same carols they will galvanise into action and begin to take up the offering among the congregation and go off to ring it up on the cash register . |
| 21 | * Check the contents page and try to link up the entries into a developing narrative or argument . |
| 22 | To the accompaniment of one of Alan Dell 's Big Band programmes Patrick told Peter Jennings about the murder and the theft of the letters , the switched bodies and his decision to come out to Romania and try to pick up the scent of John and Angela Bonnard . |
| 23 | I think you need to look again at the bit I 've marked above where I could n't understand it , and try to clear up the problem . |
| 24 | I 'm just trying to keep his feet on the ground and try to make up the yardage , but Lee hits out of the bunker and thinks it has all left him . |
| 25 | And honeysuckle twining up the birch . |
| 26 | They now have an urge to seek fresh water and start swimming up the rivers . |
| 27 | The dummy was needed , Hayling said , to show to potential advertisers and help start up the advertising sales process . |
| 28 | Joanna went on , ‘ Whatever happens , I 'm going to stay with you and help to build up the practice till it 's a going concern . |
| 29 | The traditional explanation is that the stripes act as camouflage and help to break up the shape of the animal , concealing its body from the eyes of hungry predators . |
| 30 | ‘ The Millar ’ are to be seen regularly at numerous parades and have built up a reputation of excellent musical ability , together with superb marching talent . |