Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] up [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BIRTHDAY boy Fred Proctor was in seventh heaven after notching up yet another election success . |
| 2 | Strong enough to whip a 1 50-kilogramme seal out of the water with one paw , able to swim many kilometres in freezing seas and quite capable of climbing up almost vertical ice-faces , they represent one of nature 's supreme examples of adaptation to an inhospitable environment . |
| 3 | However , the practical problems of matching up hugely varying exams , at different levels , in a vast variety of subjects , while also paying due respect to the inevitable sectional interests and sensitivities , seem almost insurmountable . |
| 4 | In an industrialized urban area the job , especially in the northern authority , is essentially one of cleaning up heavily polluted rivers , but in rural areas , where there are fewer sources of pollution , field officers are more concerned with preserving high standards of water quality . |
| 5 | The CBI , and large companies in particular , refused to use the new powers of the Industrial Relations Act for fear of stirring up even more trouble , leaving them for smaller maverick employers to exploit , and discredit , in highly contentious situations . |
| 6 | Bukharin specifically warned against tying up too many resources in long-term capital projects , and argued for a balanced approach which would actually yield a greater product : |
| 7 | Whilst regarding as correct the shift of the centre of gravity to the production of the means of production , we must at the same time remember the danger involved in tying up too much state capital in major construction work , which can not be realised on the market for many years . |
| 8 | Our unconscious acknowledgement of this at the time lay in taking up as little space as possible , not being a nuisance . |
| 9 | Telepoint phones can make only outgoing calls but Hutchison feels its £50m investment in setting up over 12,000 base stations to transmit calls will overcome earlier problems . |
| 10 | THERE is a face that pops up on TV screens that is the most instantly dislikeable I 've ever seen on the tube ; a medium that sets Olympic standards in throwing up instantly dislikeable mugs . |
| 11 | With my husband 's increasing involvement with homoeopathy , I viewed with interest the impressive , but off-putting , tomes which contained the gems of homoeopathic philosophy and materia medica , but had no enthusiasm for taking up yet another area of study , and particularly not one as arduous as homoeopathy . |
| 12 | Cheltenham MP Nigel Jones said Gloucestershire had been underfunded compared to others , but he failed in his bid and earned a rebuke for taking up too much time . |
| 13 | By the time the pub had filled enough so that the punters were giving me dirty looks for taking up so much room , I felt I had discovered enough to put two and two together and make five if not six . |
| 14 | I am wondering how I can decorate the tank without using up too much space . |
| 15 | By now I 'd read about how exhausting flight could be and how birds of prey used warm air currents — known as thermals — to lift them without using up too much energy , and here they were , doing just that over the rocks by Tintagel Castle . |
| 16 | He took to picking up pretty young girls just so that he could complain about her . |
| 17 | In general , in the authority 's industrialized areas the emphasis in pollution control is on cleaning up heavily polluted rivers . |
| 18 | As you approach your selected wave concentrate on getting up as much speed as possible and unhook from your harness . |
| 19 | Any advantage bestowed on KGDC by its peculiar structure remains a mystery — but one possibility is that a molecule with 24 separate binding sites will be much more effective at picking up very small quantities of substrate . |
| 20 | At the same time , for quite different reasons , animals have evolved sensory systems that are particularly good at picking up biologically important features of the environment . |
| 21 | Great for livening up otherwise boring presentations . |
| 22 | The third option will require the TECs to boost their incomes by gobbling up as many government programmes and grants as they can find . |