Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [verb] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THIS expanded network of popular committees and institutions making up the Unified leadership is infused by tens of thousands of activists who belong to , or identify with , the different factions of the PLO . |
| 2 | Between them Locke and Newton built up the mental picture of the universe which the educated classes in the eighteenth century absorbed as incontrovertible truth . |
| 3 | Then and there my thinking itself turned into melodious song , and my meditation became a poem , and my very prayers and psalms took up the same sound . |
| 4 | In The Form he says that the lower part of the contemplative life is : This is consistent with his account of his own quickened consciousness in The Fire of Love when he says that prior to his feeling of calor he was sitting in a chapel " delighting in the sweetness of prayer and meditation " and in his experience of canor " my thinking itself turned into melodious song , and my meditation became a poem , and my very prayers and psalms took up the same sound " ( 15.93 ) . |
| 5 | from the first of 1 january 1994 a treaty between the EC and EFTA open up the previous regulations for work permits between the countries of the EC ( or maybe EEC ? — eg Great Britain , Spain , Germany + 10 and EFTA ( Norway , Sweden , Switzerland + a couple of others ) . |
| 6 | And Isaiah takes up the same theme in the fifty fifth chapter . |
| 7 | The changes were more a reflection of her anti-establishment outlook and determination to shake up the civil service hierarchy . |
| 8 | Leaving Fraser to deal with the occupants of the vaulted basement chambers Douglas and Ramsay raced up the twisting turnpike stairway to the first floor , where would be the great hall , followed by fifty or so mosstroopers . |
| 9 | ‘ Ribbon plates ’ , crochet work and brasses brighten up the confined space which represents the entire living space for the family . |
| 10 | Velocity and fusion sucking up the shocked air . |
| 11 | Parental attitude to smoking and peer influence are factors which affect both boys and girls taking up the smoking habit . |
| 12 | Trainees at the centre at Menro House , Colmore Avenue , won a commission from City Challenge to produce a portfolio of 400 photographs of the eastern area of Middlesbrough some of which were used in the documents and information backing up the successful bid . |
| 13 | They 're saying that after all IBM Corp has been through , hiring a guy from RJR Nabisco Corp really takes the biscuit , and Reuter sums up the new round of IBM woes succinctly : the headline on Tuesday night read 24MAR93 USA : IBM TUMBLES ON MAINFRAME CONCERN , GERSTNER . |
| 14 | In the wild , smaller billed species of vultures and kites tidy up the smaller remains and clean the bones after the Griffons and Lappet-faced Vultures have had their fill . |
| 15 | Russian colonization , cities and railways cut up the great grazing lands of the nomadic peoples as violently as American settlers had done to the Amerindians in the United States . |
| 16 | Iota and Epsilon make up the famous ‘ False Cross ’ with two stars in Vela , Delta ( 2.0 ) and Kappa ( 2.5 ) . |
| 17 | By 1952 almost all English education authorities had adopted an intelligence test in their selection process ; psychologists debated the effects of social agencies coaching and practice — on IQ scores ; but Hertfordshire gave up the eleven-plus exam altogether , after having had one for at least fifteen years . |
| 18 | Scott Gemmill played a one-two with Lee Glover and saw his shot blocked , but Glover picked up the loose ball to ram it low past Thorsvedt . |