Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] up the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I hear a muffled cry of alarm , but a rush of wind breaks up the information to my ears . |
| 2 | Approval will partly depend on whether or not the UK Department of Trade & Industry opens up the market for international simple resale to the US . |
| 3 | 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 ) : ; ; ; ; |
| 4 | This chapter takes up the theme of industrial determination introduced in relation to the Northern Region in Chapter 3 . |
| 5 | The monitor picks up the amount of ultraviolet or UV rays coming from the sun . |
| 6 | Main picture : The uncluttered bedroom sums up the atmosphere of the house |
| 7 | Because of the disposition and the shape of Walter 's continuous check in relation to the wrestplank , the treble end of the check would not pass under the wrestplank as the action slides up the ramps at the back if the ends of the check batten were rigidly fixed to the action frame . |
| 8 | Tenderly : A 1953 jam session takes up the whole of one side . |
| 9 | The physical stuff of the universe wraps up the earth with knowledge and communication , and the earth shrinks , and those who do not partake of the great secret growth are eliminated and shrivel away under the physical stuff that is knowledge and communication and wraps the earth with love , for nothing less than symbiosis will do . |
| 10 | This inelegant but graphic import from American business vocabulary sums up the relevance of finance to the building surveying practice . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The sun sucks up the water into the sun . |
| 13 | Super disk copier speeds up the operation of duplicating a master disk many times . |
| 14 | Identification of this group opens up the problem of the date of the king 's baptism , and by extension the chronology as well as the interpretation of the second half of his reign . |
| 15 | When an engineer calls up the plans for a jet engine , the information in the definition of that object allows the system — automatically and efficiently — to retrieve the plans for all its sub-components . |
| 16 | The order of salvation takes up the order of creation . |
| 17 | One advantage of using a hearing-aid is in hearing one 's own voice ‘ from the outside ’ — the aid microphone picks up the voice of the user as well as voices of other people . |
| 18 | The first player in each team picks up the feather by inhaling through the straw . |
| 19 | This quotation sums up the reason for the publication by WACC of Few Voices , Many Worlds . |
| 20 | Marcuse takes up the theme of domination through the ideological form of technological reason and shows how it is legitimized by the widespread consumption enabled by increased production . |
| 21 | In moonlight the white belly fur breaks up the outline of the hunter to perfection . |
| 22 | This theoretical framework opens up the possibility of analysing the process of technical change in a dynamic disequilibrium context and of integrating work in economics , management and technology . |
| 23 | Chilling , not overheating , has become the danger , so the male opens up the mound during the day to make the most of the waning sun , and covers it over again at night to retain what warmth it has . |
| 24 | Notice how the grain goes up the body of Teddy , and his elbow nestles in the cushion |
| 25 | Labour 's positive agenda opens up the prospect for the first time since we joined the Community in 1973 of Britain participating constructively in the European Community . |
| 26 | The video takes up the story of two of the characters from A Weekend Away whom we now meet on holiday on the south coast of England . |
| 27 | On command , a wave of tube inflation rises up the tights from ankle to thigh , squeezing the vein-blood in front of it . |
| 28 | Its title sums up the attitude of many people to what is an essential feature of working life — namely , meetings . |
| 29 | His dying request sums up the faith of a lifetime . |
| 30 | ‘ Our income is a quarter of our previous police salary , and while pension increases remain practically static , inflation pushes up the cost of living beyond our reach . |