Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] up [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Company chiefs hope the industry 's prospects will be given a boost in the Budget when they 'll look to the Chancellor to help ease the situation by , amongst other things , reducing taxes on company cars which make up 55 percent of the new car market . |
| 2 | The women 's days are beginning to include the mix of activities , experiences and relationships which make up ordinary life for most people . |
| 3 | There are many excellent , authoritative text books covering the differing disciplines which make up Cosmetic Science . |
| 4 | Thus in feudal society they include the relationship between the lord and vassal and the set of rights , duties and obligations which make up that relationship . |
| 5 | The Instruction ( Nakaz ) which Catherine personally drew up for the guidance of the deputies who made up this Commission was a conflation of ideas drawn , with little alteration , from West European writers , particularly Montesquieu and Beccaria . |
| 6 | A decision to cut or pass the dividend will be especially painful for Costain because of the blow it will be for the 91 per cent of shareholders who took up last year 's rights issue and because Costain will be only the second major contractor , after John Laing , to cut the pay-out . |
| 7 | After so many years I kept up this contact , especially with one or two who were real friends . |
| 8 | With the fury that had accumulated over the years I pulled up some onions and flung them at him . |
| 9 | The great companies and other organisations which make up modern economies have considerable discretion in choosing the goals they will seek to fulfil , and even more discretion in deciding how they will fulfil them . |
| 10 | It looks through the buildings which make up English towns and cities at the processes of life which produced and used them , and so attempts to explain them in human terms . |
| 11 | A surprise luxury weekend at one of London 's top hotels was the reward for five regional retailers who notched up major sales increases . |
| 12 | In fact , more often than not the fieldworker took the initiative in this matter ; investigators who build up long-term relationships with communities frequently hear and record material which they would prefer to remain ignorant about . |
| 13 | Whatever the description the result for such individuals who take up this role is that their lives are beset by disappointment and frustration because the remainder mobilise in their own defence of their egos the kinds of myths I have indicated , or withdraw in a schizoid way . |
| 14 | There are quite a few hymns which take up this notion of Jesus bearing my sin as a substitute . |
| 15 | One is that it displaces wage costs out of the more expensive core to the somewhat cheaper periphery ; another is that it leads to stable long-term relations with suppliers which open up multi-directional flows of information between the partners in the subcontracting network . |
| 16 | First , to show something was amiss , it has to show there was an undisclosed agreement between two or more investors who built up separate stakes and then pooled resources . |
| 17 | If half the stories she picked up earned space in the column the ball was a success from her rather peculiar point of view . |
| 18 | All air-fall pumice deposits originate in the same way — in Vesuvian or Plinian gas-blast eruptions which throw up dense clouds of ash tens of thousands of metres into the air . |
| 19 | The headteacher of a day school for maladjusted pupils asked the staff of his school to keep a diary on one day , 27 November 1985 , to try to record an impression of the activities , concerns and pressures which make up daily routine . |
| 20 | He is served by a lovely cast who lift a gossamer-thin veil to show the misunderstandings and subtle warrings which make up human relations in all their glory . |
| 21 | There are so many anomalies that of the 650 Members who make up this House of Commons , including Mr. Speaker himself , each one of us could present the Government with a list of the anomalies in the Bill the length of our arm . |
| 22 | This is due in part to an increase in the proportion of births outside marriage and of mothers who bring up these children themselves as well as to less pressure on young women and men to ‘ legitimise ’ a conception with a ‘ shot-gun wedding ’ . |
| 23 | The 11 tourists , with a lot of help from the four friends who made up last night 's team , gave an astounding display to inflict on France their first defeat here for seven years . |
| 24 | On Friday afternoons I gave up all pretence and quite consciously ceded control . |
| 25 | In the shop Lydia heard rumours of men who sat up all night amongst their carrots , a shotgun across their knees for fear of jealous rivals who would come under cover of darkness to pour paraquat on the feathery fronds ; of women who stood all night in their kitchens baking , baking in the quest for the one , the perfect , cake or loaf . |
| 26 | A sample is taken and placed on a microscope slide and stained with coloured dyes which show up different structures in varying colours and shades . |
| 27 | The peculiar quality of Tamm 's work was that he recorded individual plants , shoots or rosettes , within his populations and this enabled him to follow the fates of individual plant units ( often tillers or ramets ) rather than to study the grosser vegetational change that was the aim of many others who set up permanent quadrats . |
| 28 | The other change is the invalid-care allowance which is paid to men and women who give up paid employment in order to care for a sick or elderly person , not necessarily a relative . |
| 29 | The small number of older ( and younger ) women who gave up paid employment following redundancy to become housewives may also be included in this group of discouraged workers . |
| 30 | The pre-civilisation human family , in existence before any kind of personal care replaced the primitive laws of survival , would , by its very nature have been spared many of the divisive burdens which break up modern family life . |