Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [noun] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All we can say is that girls do as well as boys at the mathematical skills which primary teachers value , such as computation , but that the APU surveys , and the analysis of other researchers such as Hilary Shuard ( 1986 ) , have picked up differences in the performance of girls and boys which mathematics educators regard as significant . |
| 2 | The printing is so poor I kept checking to see if the ink had come off on my clothes and the editors should have picked up errors like the attribution to Mary Cassatt of a mother and child by Berthe Morisot . |
| 3 | The press quickly picked up rumours of the project and upset Lutyens with garbled and inaccurate descriptions : ‘ Such a bore , ’ he wrote to his wife . |
| 4 | What you yo were trying to achieve is the expansion of the built up area towards the ring road , and thereby having built development hard up er as it is at the moment the ring road goes through for the most part open countryside on either side of it . |
| 5 | Yet the first British census of Palestine showed that Jews only made up 11% of the population . |
| 6 | However , in 1913 foreign investment still made up 25% of the money invested in Russian industry . |
| 7 | I have been present at occasions of celebration when poets and singers — there is often no distinction since poems tend to be sung or chanted — have made up verses on the spot and provided a seemingly endless number of embellishments . |
| 8 | As this demonstrated , the defection of Warwick had opened up gaps in the king 's authority and Gloucester was again an immediate beneficiary . |
| 9 | As this demonstrated , the defection of Warwick had opened up gaps in the king 's authority and Gloucester was again an immediate beneficiary . |
| 10 | The defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo on 18 June 1815 had opened up travel on the Continent , and Sewell , fully realising that his visits were cursory , seems nevertheless to have enjoyed them . |
| 11 | The LDDC has opened up committees to the public . |
| 12 | Genetic engineering has opened up possibilities for the introduction of genes which confer the ability to produce either insecticidal toxins or semiochemicals which alter insect behaviour . |
| 13 | It was a more acute problem by the time of 2 Peter : chapter 3 of that Letter is specifically directed towards those who have given up hope in the Return of Christ . |
| 14 | He had , of course , given up cigarettes by the time he had gone into the clinic , but as a result he had abandoned the puritanical principles inculcated into him in youth and had started eating sweets instead ; and this meant that he was putting on weight . |
| 15 | General Philippe Morillon has set up headquarters in the town , which has been under Serb siege for 11 months , according to Laurens Jolles , of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees . |
| 16 | It is the first Scottish Office contract to have been lost by Her Majesty 's Stationery Office since it was set up north of the Border in 1906 with the primary aim of servicing the Scottish Office . |
| 17 | The Clouds are of immense importance to astronomers , and it is partly for this reason that many of the great new telescopes are being set up south of the equator , where the Clouds are accessible . |
| 18 | For example , ICI has set up schemes around the world to recover and recycle CFCs , with the aim of being able to reduce their production . |
| 19 | For vendors who have had no previous contact with KPMG and who appear not to be totally committed to the proposed transaction , consideration should be given to requesting an up front commitment to cover set up costs of the job ( preliminary buyer research etc ) and as contribution to the costs of preparing any documentation . |
| 20 | With Syrian approval , the captain of the town 's ‘ defence committee ’ had set up office in the telephone exchange . |
| 21 | Just because you 've run up $100,000 on the meter you think you own me . |
| 22 | Although the government has tightened up rules at the slaughterhouse , and taken action to stop infected meat reaching our food , it 's still JUST possible that diseased meat scraps might reach some meat products . |
| 23 | Transport groups and environmentalists in Britain have stepped up campaigns against the government 's road-building programme . |
| 24 | ( The TRAGEDIANS have taken up positions for the continuation of the mime : which in this case means a love scene , sexual and passionate , between the QUEEN and the POISONER/KING . ) |
| 25 | Armoured carriers had taken up positions in the east of the city but the western approaches seemed to be still subject to heavy fighting . |
| 26 | Increased nuclear power production has taken up part of the electricity generation market lost by oil but the expansion of nuclear power has been far less significant than was planned for and predicted throughout the 1970s . |
| 27 | IN THE wake of his suspension , French prop GREGOIRE LASCUBE has taken up refereeing in the hope that his six months ' ban will be reduced . |
| 28 | And all , all the other things we 've listed out that have taken up time of the team were n't being done in September . |
| 29 | The Dee at Chester was fishable but the only action was from 40 cormorants who have taken up residence above the weir . |
| 30 | Durham 's Ray Currie , drawn at the dam end , punched a groundbait feeder and maggot 60 yards out taking 16 specimens all of which had chunks missing and fungus growing following their close encounters with the scavenging birds which have taken up residence on the water . |