Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] up the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | She scoops up the rest of the cakes , shoves them into some recess within her tatters , rushes out of the cubicle and disappears into the crowd . |
| 2 | doctrine of original sin under the guise of a genetically determined bio-grammar of cultural values , by colleagues who would clearly like to think of themselves as hard-boiled scientific rationalists , both amusing and disconcerting ; but it points up the difficulties of the problem ! |
| 3 | The programme does not apportion blame , or claim a conclusive link , but it points up the lack of long-term monitoring on people working with the chemicals , and suggests warning labels on the products do not always make clear what type of protective clothing is suitable . |
| 4 | It points up the importance of admissions , and suggests that the assessment of a course may ‘ wash back ’ on its content and aims . |
| 5 | It builds up the foundations of the grammar system and essential vocabulary , as appropriate to the learner 's needs at this level . |
| 6 | Sometimes a mass of viscous lava gets intruded near the surface , but does n't actually manage to break through ; instead it forces up the surface of the ground on top , forming a considerable hill where there was no hill before . |
| 7 | The natural way to interpret the EPR experiment is not that it shows up the incompleteness of quantum theory but that it manifests the falsity of naive locality . |
| 8 | It conjures up the picture of an omnipotent and independent sovereign — the image actively cultivated by the ideology of Tsarism . |
| 9 | It gathers up the movement of the house as we pass from kitchen to living room or dining room , or kitchen to bedrooms . |
| 10 | Larkin 's poem complains in concert ; it takes up the question of what it is to be sexually debarred . |
| 11 | It takes up the concept of ‘ covenant ’ already familiar in the ancient world . |
| 12 | Invited to join the King , with his companions the Chancellor Colonel Sapt and his aide-de-camp Fritz von Tarlenheim , on the ruler 's last night of freedom before he takes up the burden of the Crown , Rassendyll is conveniently available to step in when the monarch collapses , drugged by wine presented by his jealous brother Black Michael . |
| 13 | Murphy rejects the first , accepts the second and does not actually consider the third at all ! in fact it is probably the key , since in an earlier part of his discussion he opens up the possibility of interpreting not only into ASL ( or BSL ) but also into a manual English form . |
| 14 | Pursued further , as a form of enlightenment and emancipation , it opens up the possibilities of critical self-reflection , of seeing one 's central pursuits in a new perspective . |
| 15 | The glass stands silent in the gallery , he wrote , but it burns up the lies of the gallery . |
| 16 | The United States expert sought to re-assure the Commission that pre-trial discovery procedures in his country were all after the commencement of proceedings ( the relevance of this being , presumably , that it picks up the requirement of Article 1(2) of the Convention ) and were under the control of a judge . |
| 17 | That er goes on in relation to er criminal matters again and er er paragraph three hundred and thi , thirty three forty one er it picks up the subject of expert testament , namely er science , art , trade , technical terms , handwriting , foreign law er the ensuing pages in fact deal with that and then at paragraph thirty two fifty one er in the er section of subjects which experts may not testify on . |
| 18 | The buyer , on the other hand , wishes to put off acceptance as long as possible , so that he can be sure the goods are totally satisfactory to him before he gives up the opportunity of rejecting them . |
| 19 | Furthermore , this pattern of decisions is recognized as of very special interest because it makes up the state of equilibrium . |