Example sentences of "[vb -s] up the [noun pl] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To calculate the probability of finding a real space-time with some certain property , such as looking the same at every point and in every direction , one adds up the waves associated with all the histories that have that property . |
| 2 | The low intensity of these rural idylls shows up the problems created by the failure of the commercially-minded companies to generate anything other than fusty , studio-bound melodramas , as unsuccessful in their way as the airy , de-sensationalized productions of their more creative competitors . |
| 3 | A curved position-sensitive detector picks up the X-rays diffracted by the sample while its transmission spectrum is recorded by a photodiode array . |
| 4 | If anyone is interested i could post excerpts from an article sent to rec.sport.soccer which sums up the norwegains playing in Premiership — in fact we have the largest contigent of players from outside the British Isles right now . |
| 5 | Vivian de Sola Pinto sums up the qualities required of this kind of professional scholar as a capacity for " exact scholarship " , an extensive " knowledge " of language and literature , and — if possible — " the most perfect taste and tact " . |