Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With five ends completed they had opened up a 39-22 lead , and at the halfway mark had all but tied up the title at a convincing 78-37 ahead . |
| 2 | As the clients relaxation skills develop the exercises may be combined so as to speed up the process of relaxation . |
| 3 | utterly unnecessarily imposed so as to fatten up the privatisation turkey — and the Government have the cheek to tell us how much better things are now . |
| 4 | From this point of view the French have never regarded fascism as an aberration , concurring rather with Césaire and Fanon that it can be explained quite simply as European colonialism brought home to Europe by a country that had been deprived of its overseas empire after World War I. French poststructuralism , therefore , involves a critique of reason as a system of domination comparable to that of the Frankfurt School , but rather than setting up the possibility of a purged reason operating in an unblocked , ideal speech situation as a defence against tyranny and coercion in the manner of a Habermas , it reanalyses the operations of reason as such . |
| 5 | ‘ This is clearly demonstrated by farmers who simply use the bull of the day rather than reading up the figures and selecting the best sire for their needs . ’ |
| 6 | Some would have starved rather than give up the playing . |
| 7 | More importantly , the existing upper floor of this outshot proved to be too close to the lean-to roof to give a habitable room-height , so rather than raise up the roof level of the entire extension , it was decided to reduce the level of the upper floor to create adequate headroom . |
| 8 | John believes there should be tougher sentences for violent criminals , rather than clogging up the jails with those who object to the poll tax . |
| 9 | As well as setting up the scheme , the council will be made to fill in quarterly returns so the government can monitor changes in numbers . |
| 10 | Crucially , as well as setting up the registers , the Act permits local authorities to recover clean-up costs from owners . |
| 11 | As well as soaking up the sun , Emma says she 's particularly looking forward to scuba diving and swimming in Stingray City . |
| 12 | If one also supposed that only one or two electrons could orbit at any one of these distances , this would solve the problem of the collapse of the atom , because the electrons could not spiral in any farther than to fill up the orbits with the least distances and energies . |