Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] up the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chef turns up the racing heat |
| 2 | To lend naive party cheer , the young American DJ whacks up the dry ice machine which spurts more of its obnoxious fumes into the heart of the room . |
| 3 | Chanel sums up the new colour and shape of accessories . |
| 4 | If you prefer to mount a stalwart defence you can wait behind long lines of hand gunners , massed ranks of halberdiers and hold important positions with volley guns while your artillery softens up the advancing enemy . |
| 5 | The plan clears up the legal wrangles set off by the federal government 's decision in 1988 to sue the state government over water quality in the Everglades , but leaves unclear many of the details of the clean-up . |
| 6 | The hall takes up the central bay through the two storeys ; the dining- and drawing-rooms are on either side . |
| 7 | The surface of a warm , damp body takes up the wet-bulb temperature of the air around it . |
| 8 | The microphone picks up the surrounding sounds and feeds them to the amplifier . |
| 9 | The embroidery-edged bed linen picks up the delicate decoration as does the appliqué bedcover , while the plain brown walls add warmth and lend a strong contrast . |
| 10 | The fit between fact and theory is good , but again the conclusion strikes up the familiar refrain : ‘ the results are only marginally significant … |
| 11 | This business makes up the remaining 25% of group sales . |
| 12 | I believe that Bourdieu 's conceptual framework opens up the social-scientific study of postmodernism in several ways . |
| 13 | This may be achieved where cobbling makes drivers aware of the presence of pedestrians , where a tree breaks up the straight line of the centre of the road or where narrowings make drivers proceed especially slowly and carefully . |
| 14 | Unlike Lukács ' insignificant event from which the universal is precariously drawn out through the narrative , Sartre 's singularity works synecdochally in a conventional antinomy with the universal , the relation between the two structured according to the familiar nineteenth-century model of organic growth or process in which each singular event makes up the whole while , as he puts it , ‘ the whole is entirely present in the part as its present meaning and as its destiny ’ . |
| 15 | Consistently good water quality and a stress-free environment builds up the natural resistance of your fish , so they can shrug off minor ailments . |
| 16 | The choice theory picks up the libertarian strand , which insists that all state power must be legitimated by consent , whereas the ‘ harm to interests ’ theory taps the slender source of Millian liberalism to defend a broadening of the scope of contractual obligations . |
| 17 | Farber sums up the whole process : |
| 18 | The Government takes up the financial burden through the Public Service Obligation grant , but economies are still expected . |
| 19 | Once detection occurs , however , the effect of the zoning pulls up the overall performance in terms of duration of application and water used , both of which are almost half the 29th edition values . |
| 20 | Somehow that incident sums up the Corinthian surroundings of British rowing — the sport that won Great Britain two Olympic gold medals last summer . |
| 21 | The return pipe of the power filter can be inserted down the uplift pipe of the undergravel filter where the water flow pushes up the heavy mulm to the surface of the gravel , from where it is hoovered away . |
| 22 | The river exhibits some fine rapids and waterfalls as the road continues up the steep-sided valley to the hamlet of Ried and to the village which bears the valley 's name , Muotathal , which boasts a late eighteenth-century parish church with a particularly striking rococo interior . |
| 23 | The lateral membrane takes up the entire length of one side of the chamber , pushing the grapes against the other side . |
| 24 | By the law of association , the material image calls up the mental idea and vice versa . |
| 25 | ‘ The enclosed photo sums up the general verdict of our recent holiday to Zakopane . |
| 26 | erm we decided from the start that erm the mums who have their kids in the creche should make some contribution towards the costs ; we 're providing them with a benefit erm but the company picks up the major part of the bill erm but in terms of the output from the additional sewing machinists that we 've got , it 's very , very cost-effective , yes . |
| 27 | From the buffet we could see the restaurant where a ten-piece dance band was playing ‘ Mambo italiano ’ and about thirty couples danced various improvisations on the Western dances according to whether they came from Leningrad , peking , or East Berlin , where the TV picks up the Western stations . |
| 28 | Its position sums up the massive ego of a man who plundered millions from his empire 's pensioners . |
| 29 | All these obligations are designed to ensure that the tenant keeps up the real value of the scheme and that the landlord 's income remains as high as possible . |
| 30 | The collection of mementos on her mantelpiece sums up the different strands of her life . |