Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] up [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Natural selection could easily have enhanced this faculty by gradual degrees until it was sensitive enough to pick up very slight contact vibrations . |
| 2 | Hayling and Horsley were obviously lining up yet another man , Pilger , to control what the paper would say with its editorial content . |
| 3 | You need only set up elegantly simple categories and logic will whisk you to whatever conclusion you have in mind . |
| 4 | He tore it open and found that it was n't empty , just that the fine powder inside took up so little space . |
| 5 | I 'll perhaps get up there next Sunday and do it . |
| 6 | The new low aspect ratio keels have been specially designed to give the maximum lift to windward as well as allowing the boat to creep into shallow lagoons and creeks where she can dry out without any difficulty thus opening up previously unexplored regions throughout the world . |
| 7 | He could always get old Benny Robinson , his helper , to sweep the place up and tie up the piles of cardboard , but Benny had already swept up twice that day and he was now busy sorting out bundles of twine which had fallen out of a damaged carton and become unwound . |
| 8 | Before yesterday 's game against Bangor , the team had already piled up almost 100 points in its first two games of the season , against CIYMS and Coleraine . |
| 9 | The hon. Lady seems to be confusing the regulatory record of my Department with the regulators outside my Department , who were deliberately set up as independent regulators as a result of legislation passed by the House . |
| 10 | Commenting on the scope of a scheme that can give every farmer a stake in conservation , he said : ‘ If someone wants to make a 20 metre-wide headland , he can run it for a mile and still use up only eight acres of his set-aside land . ’ |
| 11 | So you think they 'll probably stay up there next weekend ? |
| 12 | The Children Act could also open up much wider possibilities , affecting whole groups of travellers . |
| 13 | Middlesbrough have now picked up only two points from the last four games . |
| 14 | For example , contour banks in the Mbeya region led to rat infestation ; wide grass strips and contour hedges often used up too much land . |
| 15 | Thirdly there 's the old objection of participatory democracy that it simply takes up too much time and this is not a trivial objection , because the thought is not that it 's simply time-consuming , but because it 's so |
| 16 | Even to build up moderately high pressures sufficient to shatter rock it was realized that a closed system was required in order for the pressure not to be relieved by the expulsion of water into adjacent voids . |
| 17 | According to the Oxford Housing Rights Centre , repossessions have doubled during the recession … and tenants increasingly end up as innocent victims … |
| 18 | I was about to dive back in among the hops , though I probably smelled like last night 's barmaid already , when the Shogun veered off to my right , and then pulled up about twenty feet from me . |
| 19 | The trouble is that , like with the fuzzy guitar , you 've then taken up so much space in the mix . |
| 20 | But the taxi drivers say if they 're forced to move on they 'll loose the four thousand fares they currently pick up here each week . |
| 21 | Apart from the ‘ George And James ’ and ‘ Stars And Hank Forever ’ album , Goldmine claims that the project got no further than the ‘ It 's A Man 's Man 's Man 's World ’ video and 45 , adding : ‘ It 's not quite clear whether or not The Residents ever got to work on Volume Three — which would have featured the compositions of Bob Dylan and Sun Ra — but leftovers from the earlier volumes occasionally crop up as rare treats , such as ‘ I 'm So Lonesome I Could Cry ’ on the ‘ Potatoes ’ folk song composition . ’ |
| 22 | The budget is therefore set up anew each year . |