Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] up the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The saliva dries and hardens quickly and with repeated flights , the bird slowly builds up the line into a low wall . |
| 2 | Soldiers had since picked up the habit of wine-drinking in France during the war and upon returning to England had educated the middle classes , further increasing the popularity of Champagne in the immediate post-war years . |
| 3 | If we could precisely specify and conclusively verify every member of the set of observation statements which together make up the meaning of a non-observation statement , that non-observation statement would , in accordance with the verification principle , have its own determinate meaning and in certain circumstances be determinately true or determinately false . |
| 4 | She had long given up the tussle with French and lapsed into straight English ( which Therese , damn it , was supposed to understand ) . |
| 5 | These operate as discursive resources to be drawn upon and articulated in different combinations in particular contexts , thus constantly opening up the possibility of tension , inconsistency and contradiction within and between sites . |
| 6 | He had foolishly picked up the trolleys from a nearby supermarket and threw them . |
| 7 | It also demands that someone is skilled enough to set up the stylesheets in the first place unless you want to stick with the standard set provided by Xerox . |
| 8 | That development entailed a recognition that the concentration upon language by the school of logical positivism , within which Ayer 's dismissal of religious belief emerged , might not so much show up the meaninglessness of theology as elicit its own particular logic Wittgenstein 's thought appears to show a progression from concentrating upon language in order to exclude certain forms of thought — as in Ayer 's exclusion of metaphysics — towards concentrating upon language in order to make sense of those different forms in a way that was sensitive to their particular nature . |
| 9 | The claims so built up the expectations for ZETA after the first conference that the subsequent news was perceived as ‘ failure ’ . |
| 10 | If you read again the sections covered by the mnemonic MACRO , you will appreciate that the best effects are produced when you do not merely soak up the words of the textbook author , like some print-absorbing sponge . |
| 11 | But the Anglicans , like the Lutherans , did not suddenly give up the composition of Latin texts . |
| 12 | Part of the trouble lay in the German command 's ruthless system of keeping divisions in the line over lengthy periods , constantly topping up the losses with new replacements . |
| 13 | So you can , so if you feel that you 're a bit , you need a bit of practice in a certain area , you can literally look up the type of course that would benefit you the most . |
| 14 | Constantly turning up the pressure on suppliers to do even better makes doing business with carmakers tough ( see box ) . |
| 15 | As a matter of policy , the tutors seldom intervene , so pass up the opportunity of helping the students learn ; also ( critics say ) much time is wasted in interminable discussion over semantic niceties . |
| 16 | One that seems to work well for many managers is merely to divide up the list into three types of activity : |
| 17 | Or , concentrated bleach can be diluted with cold water in the proportion one part bleach to ten parts water , to make it thin enough to draw up the needle into the syringe . |
| 18 | The main argument seems to be whether he could morally take up the titles of Head of the Church of England and Defender of the Faith . |
| 19 | Except in a few cases , formal inspections will not have been frequent enough to build up the kind of collective experience that HMIs have . |
| 20 | I mean , why have you suddenly brought up the subject of Elise ? ’ |
| 21 | If you use drugs , you will need to consider that drugs can deplete your immune system and so speed up the progression of the illness . |
| 22 | As this process continues , the scope for further squeezing of the wealth of households through inflation is being reduced , and , so long as the authorities rely on inflation as a method of financing government expenditure , they will be obliged constantly to speed up the rate of inflation in order to achieve the same real effect . |
| 23 | So keep up the heat in your compost heap by covering it with black plastic sheets , old carpets or sacking . |
| 24 | The Inquisition was an ineffective irritant , slow and erratic in its procedures ; it merely put up the price of books , forcing readers to all sorts of subterfuges in order to consume often out-dated heresies . |
| 25 | In other words , rather than introducing other , more persuasive factors , he merely sets up the court as the arbiter of a medical issue , and decides that , of all the criteria involved , the crucial ones for determining how the individual is to be regarded by the law are the biological criteria . |
| 26 | Fedelma has only started up the business since beginning the course and has found it a ‘ great practical help ’ . |
| 27 | Two of those are being heated by burning blast furnace gas and the third one has the cold air blown through it and the brickwork inside gives up the heat to the er cold air , warms the air and then that 's blown into the blast furnace . |
| 28 | Sadly the ex England Captain is n't fit enough to take up the offer of a first division runabout before the Japanese season gets underway . |
| 29 | Sadly the ex England Captain is n't fit enough to take up the offer of a first division runabout before the Japanese season gets underway . |
| 30 | However , if the crisis has been particularly sharp and the depression of sufficient duration then it is more likely that the total of will increase sufficiently to push up the price of consumer goods . |