Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Edinburgh Evening News picked up the point during the dispute and commented that " the old story of the men 's dislike to machinery appears in this dispute just as it was with the engineers " , 25 Whatever the reason or reasons , the men 's unwillingness to handle the machines led directly to the situation of the late 1900s in which Edinburgh master printers were trying to counter the threat of London and southern firms by combining both the employment of women and the use of machines , thus posing a double threat of a new kind to the male compositor , and inspiring a more determined resistance from the latter than had been seen during the previous thirty-odd years . |
| 32 | A hall , lounge , kitchen , dining area , three bedrooms and bathroom/ w.c. make up the accommodation . |
| 33 | A SIDA report sums up the crisis : |
| 34 | Certainly the kind of modern-day would-be Kerouac who survives entirely on the proceeds from trading-in free albums and indulging in the fine art of ‘ ligging ’ — tagging along to any show in town where the record company picks up the catering bill — is not extinct . |
| 35 | The article in the Evening Standard takes up the issue in the same vein . |
| 36 | Two years later , the War Office picked up the idea and soon the system was adopted by the army and navy . |
| 37 | Peter Brachaki 's TARDIS control room set made up the bulk of the design requirements , leaving Cusick only with the task of constructing two dormitory rooms . |
| 38 | Now with her piggy back heart shinning up the climbing frame is childs play . |
| 39 | HM Inspectorate helped in various ways and Statistics Division of the Scottish Office Education Department drew up the sample of schools at short notice . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | Their top instructors are holding a one day campaign to sharpen up the County 's road sense . |
| 42 | Gen Noriega was able to broadcast to the people and organise resistance over the main national radio network , until a special US assault team blew up the transmitters late on Wednesday . |
| 43 | The back person picks up the ball and runs to the front . |
| 44 | An overflow arrangement backs up the outlet pipe . |
| 45 | A front leg-stretching exercise : from a walking stance throw up the leg , keeping the knee joint locked and toes pulled back into a high position . |
| 46 | Cardiff saw its hideously burnt and decomposed head turn to look up the stairwell at them , just as Jimmy and Rohmer heaved the filing cabinet over . |
| 47 | You will see a dialog box counting up the number of matches , before you are returned to the original display showing files at the left , and details at the right . |
| 48 | It was a great thing the other day when I saw the combine harvester coming up the glen . |
| 49 | The second order signification system opens up the possibility of an endless layer of significatory systems each aspiring to a larger context from which meaningfulness is derived . |
| 50 | The City fears a Bank Rate rise to prop up the pound if the French vote no to the Maastricht treaty on Sunday . |
| 51 | Voice Processing Corp backed up the operating system with its VPro-4 speech recognition board ; PostSaver Systems with its barcoding software and Pittsburgh Powercomputing with its X Server products . |
| 52 | Natural selection was a process taking place within the whole breeding population making up the species , and if a division were to occur , the single original population must somehow be split into several distinct subpopulations that did not interbreed . |
| 53 | As you get older , and your age group moves up the pyramid , getting slightly smaller , do you think that your group will need more , less , or about the same number of houses , hospitals and other services as those who go before you ? |
| 54 | One woman activist summed up the mood : ‘ We get crumbs from the table but we 're never allowed a seat . ’ |
| 55 | Leading his daughter , he reiterated his promise to come in after morning surgery to pick up the squirrel and return the cage later , and when the door closed Sophie turned to Joanna . |
| 56 | Intermediate wringing during the drying stage speeds up the process , as mop absorption rates vary in that the more water a mop holds the slower it picks up more water . |
| 57 | Day by day , play by play , the Miracle Pageant grubbed up the wealth of every village , hamlet and town . |
| 58 | The checkout operator cashes up the goods , the customer pays and then leaves via the specific exit . |
| 59 | But the new admission that Britain is considering ( forgetting ) about further reprocessing plant opens up the possibility that the temporary store may become a long-term dumping ground for the industry 's most dangerous waste . |
| 60 | In sum , the whole curriculum approach opens up the possibility for special educational provision to become an integral part of the process of developing comprehensive education as a whole . |