Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] up the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir [ James ] Stephen added : ‘ The effect of adopting this definition would be to include under one description all the cognate offences which at present make up the crime of theft . |
| 2 | Photographs , coloured yarn and a short text made up the rest of the display . |
| 3 | The first attempt to drive up the cost of travelling by road brought down the government . |
| 4 | The amp 's master volume pot , headphone socket and mains switch make up the remainder of front panel controls . |
| 5 | The snakes and the tardy remedy make up the entirety of God 's response . |
| 6 | HM Inspectorate helped in various ways and Statistics Division of the Scottish Office Education Department drew up the sample of schools at short notice . |
| 7 | Any attempt to open up the convolutions of farm policy to public scrutiny is bound to be seen as a threat to those with an interest in the status quo . |
| 8 | There was scaffolding rearing up the face of the house from the front garden and , next to the front door , a large notice saying : |
| 9 | A deal signed with the American biotechnology firm , Genentech , for the mass-production of the protein opened up the prospect of supplying a massive world market for haemophiliacs . |
| 10 | In words like ‘ potato ’ , ‘ tomato ’ , ‘ canary ’ , ‘ perhaps ’ , ‘ today ’ , the vowel in the first syllable may disappear ; the aspiration of the initial plosive takes up the whole of the middle portion of the syllable , resulting in these pronunciations ( where indicates aspiration ) : ; ; ; ; |
| 11 | This chapter takes up the theme of industrial determination introduced in relation to the Northern Region in Chapter 3 . |
| 12 | The monitor picks up the amount of ultraviolet or UV rays coming from the sun . |
| 13 | Main picture : The uncluttered bedroom sums up the atmosphere of the house |
| 14 | He waited , the hair crisping up the back of his head . |
| 15 | But immediately the plan to carve up the boardroom of Bell Resources ran into trouble with Australia 's corporate watchdog , the National Companies and Securities Commission ( NCSC ) . |
| 16 | Some mill-workers on a mid-shift and a group of men crossing the river to look for work made up the rest of the throng , with the exception of a portly little man with a bowler hat , waistcoat and watch-chain , a foreman from one of the Govan yards on an errand for the Head Office . |
| 17 | Vacuum cleaner ( linked to one — a bun ) : There is nothing particularly unusual about using a vacuum cleaner to pick up the crumbs of a bun so I decided to picture a bun decorated with a vacuum cleaner on top . |
| 18 | There are tantalising descriptions of buildings now demolished — ‘ a wonderful high ceiling in the banking hall going up the equivalent of two storeys ’ — plus accounts of lunchtimes and commuting . |
| 19 | Alfred Hedgehog climbed up the bank of the canal and started off down the trail . |
| 20 | Tenderly : A 1953 jam session takes up the whole of one side . |
| 21 | But the ambience called up the shades of Toulouse-Lautrec and Gaugin , and of Mimi , and these began to work their fermentation in my imagination . |
| 22 | This inelegant but graphic import from American business vocabulary sums up the relevance of finance to the building surveying practice . |
| 23 | The final scene sets up the image of Suzannah and the Elders echoing the painting while reinforcing Tassi and Cauley 's conspiracy against Artemesia in the scene before . |
| 24 | The Minister 's attitude reveals a clear determination to break up the system of comprehensive education in this country and replace it with something different . |
| 25 | In any case , it was open to the Education Committee to take up the question of Village school again , deliberating whether a new closure order could be justified on educational grounds . |
| 26 | He attributed his gaining ten ‘ O ’ levels , four ‘ A ’ levels , a psychology degree and ( in process ) a Masters degree to his own ‘ determination to take up the challenge of the idea of the black kid who 's got no brains . ’ |
| 27 | The British Boxing Board of Control , in a commendable exercise to shore up the credibility of the sport yesterday , questioned the plan for Benn to challenge one of boxing 's legends , Roberto Duran , for his middleweight title . |
| 28 | The stick and the fist backed up the array of legal powers . |
| 29 | Unfortunately , the woman in question picked up the piece of paper with her name and address on along with all the Sanctuary 's records , and has not been seen since . |
| 30 | The sun picked up the colours of a girl 's dress . |