Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overtaking needs a bit more planning , but for those who have long since given up the chase and opted for a more dignified life , this is a lot of car for the money plus a BMW badge to ride behind . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Not all the personal pronouns in the Sonnets , of course , are significant of personal relationships , and for this reason it is not enough just to tot up the figures in a computer-made concordance . |
| 4 | A more equivocal comment that perhaps best sums up the evaluations that led to RCA has been made by Timmons ( 1980 ) : ‘ While these measures [ in soil conservation ] have seldom attained goals , increases in soil erosion were minimised and occasionally soil losses reduced . |
| 5 | There 's the call it 's coming in I knew it would work in fact we 'll talk straight away now just come straight through to me O nine O four six four one six four one and there 's another one there so just pick up the phone and hear as we sit and talk and chew the fat and stuff like that hello ? |
| 6 | I have only just plucked up the courage to write to you after a year and a half of reading ZZAP ! |
| 7 | I 've only just tidied up the front again last weekend . |
| 8 | I could so easily pick up a drink . |
| 9 | I 'm just frightened because I could so easily pick up a drink . |
| 10 | He told Granada TV 's This Morning show : ‘ I 'm just frightened because , God , I could so easily pick up a drink . |
| 11 | Today the pensioners still do not know if they are to get any of their money but the lawyers and accountants sorting out Maxwell 's affairs have so far run up a bill in excess of £30 million . |
| 12 | So simply making up the calcium that astronauts excrete may not ensure that it is laid down properly in new bone . |
| 13 | At least that will be the attitude of the minister who has scrabbled around ( perhaps even ringing up a colleague on the Saturday night ) in a desperate search for that elusive thing , the good children 's address . |
| 14 | To achieve those outputs the immediate suppliers , in their turn , purchase inputs from other firms , this constituting another set of outputs ; and so on back up the supply chain . |
| 15 | Others claim that I went to St Tropez on a tip-off , bumped into Angeli and only then struck up a deal for the Daily Mirror to have exclusive pictures . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The most important thing was just physically keeping up the morale . |
| 18 | That just about sums up the book , but the Vietnam/Cambodia industry goes on . |
| 19 | He took a final pull of his beer : by the time he had finished it , Annie was hovering above him , her large red hands already noisily piling up the dishes . |
| 20 | All the rest of us are just here to make up the numbers . ’ |
| 21 | Thus there build up a series of steps with sharp , cliff-like fronts ( Plate 10 ) . |
| 22 | The way he expressed it , quaint to us today , nevertheless neatly points up the dilemma : If one government has a right to require that children be religiously educated , so has another , so have all ( whether … in Constantinople Islamism , or Pekin Confucionism … ) . |
| 23 | Observation of operator performance within many high technology systems reveals nothing more than a person sitting at a desk scanning various kinds of displays at intervals and just occasionally picking up a telephone , making a note in a log-book or manipulating a control . |
| 24 | Mr Chairman erm I would like personally take up a suggestion that was in The Star about the possibility of a regional company being based at the playhouse in other words for a few months I would see it as people getting to know this company and rather like a repertory theatre of old then people would want to come and see these people in different roles and I think that would add to the you know repetitive . |
| 25 | It 's that flippancy that makes the listeners love him ; three hours ’ broadcasting a day is usually enough to use up the excess , but he does n't work weekends . ’ |
| 26 | Within a very few weeks of his father 's death , Lewis found himself obliged once more to take up the routines of an Oxford term : weekly tutorials , college meetings and lectures . |
| 27 | At an elementary level , however , one can more confidently draw up a list of the most basic communicative needs of a foreign language learner . |
| 28 | This enabled them once again to draw up a profile of those high-risk subjects who developed schizophrenia , which turned out to be similar to that reported at an earlier stage of the research . |
| 29 | ‘ If it happens , ’ she returned , placing a heavy emphasis on the first word , ‘ my father will once again pick up the reins of control . ’ |
| 30 | Bush had emphasized heavily throughout the campaign the issues of trust and character , and this latest revelation appeared to be particularly damaging to him ; opinion poll evidence suggested that , at the end of October , Clinton was once again opening up a lead . |