Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [prep] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was one of a number he had picked up since leaving the charred ruins of Ankh-Morpork . |
| 2 | Very chronic problems can be speeded up by applying the same solution as that taken by mouth , externally to the back , thighs and lower legs . |
| 3 | An image , an acoustic picture is built up by scanning the focal dot over the specimen 's surface . |
| 4 | Because he 's European , he 's bald and the opposite of everything Kirk was and he 's always so messed up about making the right decision … ’ |
| 5 | I get fed up with cooking the same old thing — I like it if I can experiment . |
| 6 | This wastage can be shown up by comparing the theoretical mass balance with the actual mass balance . |
| 7 | When a computer has a number of data.types , many operation codes are used up in providing the same arithmetic operation for operands with different formats . |
| 8 | Since social systems , in this instance like physical systems , tend towards inertia , the challenge to innovation is bound up with reversing the usual trend . |
| 9 | Marx 's and Engels 's work on pre-capitalist systems is largely taken up with showing the indissoluble link between the type of property and the type of relations of production . |