Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her dark-brown skin picked up the deadening light inside the train and reflected it strangely so that her face looked almost silver . |
| 2 | There are many occurrences of volcanic activity in areas remote from plate margins ; the volcanoes of the East African Rift system , such as Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya , the volcanic and associated hydrothermal activity of the Yellowstone region in Wyoming , U S A ( Fig. 4.3 ) , and the chain of volcanic peaks making up the Hawaiian Islands are examples from both continental and oceanic regions . |
| 3 | Brian Wisenden and Miles Keenleyside , of the University of Western Ontario , have spent the past two years studying the convict cichlid Cichlasoma nigrofasciatum ( named for its distinctive stripes ) , a species already known to have the common cichlid habit of forming monogamous pairs to bring up the next generation . |
| 4 | Exhibition-train revenue makes up the final 4 per cent . |
| 5 | The problem is that foreign scouts snap up the talented ones to work abroad . |
| 6 | In fact development of Housing Action Trusts to deal with particularly run-down estates and Scottish Homes to break up the public sector suggests an alternative vision , based on state-sponsored restructuring and renewal from above , rather than individual choice . |
| 7 | The surface of a warm , damp body takes up the wet-bulb temperature of the air around it . |
| 8 | Cutting off the supply of nutrition to tissues in any part of the body has a further consequence — new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit . |
| 9 | He also stresses that the new female values encouraged marriage for love rather than for prudential considerations , and maintains that women 's increasing search for sexual fulfilment pushed up the general fertility rate of lower-class marriages in the nineteenth century . |
| 10 | Holmewood 's ‘ whistling ’ bridge ( it made noises if the wind was blowing through the rafters from the right direction ) has just been passed by K3 No. 60896 as it heads a southbound coal train up the 1 in 100 in about 1961 . |
| 11 | The English archers broke up the Scottish positions and the Earl of Dunbar and Robert the Steward fled with their troops . |
| 12 | The hastily assembled pair strike up the lush strains of ‘ Always On My Mind ’ ) . |
| 13 | If the compost heap seems dry , water it with the hose and cover with old carpet to speed up the natural rotting process . |
| 14 | Plants are normally under some form of stress — heat or light stress are two of many forms — but nevertheless plants are generally healthy , from which we may conclude that nature is continually carrying out a delicate balancing act among the contributing reactions making up the complete photosynthetic ‘ machinery ’ . |
| 15 | This way of thinking is probably healthier than the one which sees evangelism as synonymous with an evangelistic crusade to fill up the existing churches ' buildings , and make existing churches stronger . |
| 16 | She felt his warm stickiness on her tongue , and rolled it around her mouth before placing her lips over the tip of his dying penis to suck up the last few drops . |
| 17 | The same is true of the individual countries making up the European Community . |
| 18 | The Bank also uses the Exchange Equalization Account to intervene in the foreign exchange market by buying up surplus sterling to keep up the external value of the pound . |
| 19 | Harvey the conformist was the first of the five remaining customers to pick up the outsize gesture . |
| 20 | With its Georgian frontage and those imposing pillars holding up the front porch , it still looked impressive . |
| 21 | The neck is ( you guessed it ) mahogany , again of reasonable quality , and all of one piece , save for an extra block making up the traditionally-pointed heel . |
| 22 | You can now start venturing away from your measured route and start looking for additional ways to clock up the extra miles — try walking to the shops instead of driving ; try parking the car further away from work and walking the rest of the way ; or getting off the bus or train one or two stops from your destination and walking the rest of the way . |
| 23 | A Dwarf sees an extra Elf sitting up the same tree , about to fire an Elf Bow and strike down his rockbrother . |
| 24 | First , central government set up the Civil Contingencies Unit ( CCU ) , a formal institution based in the cabinet office whose brief was to monitor and respond to industrial disputes in key industries . |
| 25 | The lateral membrane takes up the entire length of one side of the chamber , pushing the grapes against the other side . |
| 26 | The Bible provides a clear and simple way to clear up the major cause of trouble , and that way is reconciliation . |
| 27 | As it was , with two glasses of champagne inside her , and as the mannequins displayed the latest fashions from Paris and London , she felt she was once more in heaven , even more so two hours or so later as Mr O'Hara 's chief assistants wrapped up the final choices : dresses , gowns and lingerie made of georgette , and flowered taffetas , moires , silks and satins , subtle lamés , artificial marocain and crêpe de Chine , in colours of white or pastel blue , cerise , pearl-grey , oyster and of course rose-opaline . |
| 28 | It is thought , for example , that the long and feathery antennae of male mosquitoes pick up the specific sound wave patterns generated by a female mosquito who is ready and willing for a sexual encounter . |
| 29 | Quite apart from idiosyncratic spellings , lack of punctuation , inconsistent use of capital letters and a widespread inability to add up the total valuation , one is confronted with archaic and dialect words . |
| 30 | I believe that Bourdieu 's conceptual framework opens up the social-scientific study of postmodernism in several ways . |