Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [vb base] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some travellers take up the challenge of lone journeys : a test of endurance in Arctic conditions . |
| 2 | Such combinations make up the particles known as mesons , which are unstable because the quark and antiquark can annihilate each other , producing electrons and other particles . |
| 3 | Such questions point up the importance of recognizing how the reality principles of power are reworked ‘ intra-discursively ’ . |
| 4 | These roads open up the rainforest to waves of settlers who move into the forests and clear even more land by fire . |
| 5 | The landscape manager faces major practical difficulties due to lack of basic information , including the extent and location of the individual elements of land cover ( woodlands , moorlands , farmland , etc ) or the way in which these elements make up the landscape . |
| 6 | On Sulawesi , these lizards dig up the eggs of the increasingly rare maleo , a bird which buries its egg in the hot sand to hatch out . |
| 7 | These assumptions make up a set of inter-related hypotheses about the processes and criteria of class membership . |
| 8 | These children make up the majority of patients in growth disorder clinics . |
| 9 | These losers make up the core of the 74% of Hungarians who in a recent opinion poll said they thought the economic situation had worsened . |
| 10 | When considering these findings it should be borne in mind that many companies round up the fees paid to the nearest million pounds ( or one place of decimals of a million pounds ) and that foreign currency movements can cause distortions . |
| 11 | This is the point at which many patients give up the therapy , said Mrs Henry . |
| 12 | For each method draw up a list of information and data that you require : |
| 13 | ‘ I want to defend my European and Commonwealth titles and win the World Championships because every time we are successful , more youngsters take up the sport . |
| 14 | Hard to return for seven days and in those days churn up the past and curdle precious memories . |
| 15 | When two or more people set up a business together , they form a partnership . |
| 16 | And why is it whenever you choose to roll out the seventy foot or more of polythene , which has humped up your overdraft considerably , a perfect tranquil morning is spoilt by a freak hurricane , sheet with a dozen or more pairs of hands held fast disappears over Stickford way and at that moment , more people drive up the Bank than would normally pass in a week . |
| 17 | That parishes set up a worship committee , where there is none , in order to advise the incumbent and Parochial Church Council , and to support their organist or director of music ( 555–556 , 579–580 ) . |
| 18 | If you have any views pick up the phone and call me now . |
| 19 | Blessed be the foreign correspondent who can fly from Beirut to Athens , therefore , and in the same day pick up an El Al flight from Athens to Tel Aviv and land at Ben Gurion airport and travel — faster even than the old direct taxi route from prewar Beirut — to Jerusalem . |
| 20 | Clearly no one person could get round five parishes , control five PCCs , prop up the fabric of five buildings , look to a couple of church school governing bodies , visit , bury and comfort the sick , dead and bereaved , let alone baptise , prepare for confirmation and marry five sets of parishioners and at the same time keep up a life of prayer . |
| 21 | Yet , recognition of that extension might at the same time open up the possibility that vulnerable people who do not desire death , despite their suffering , might be killed by others for reasons of their own : this would subvert the right to self-determination , and is an argument against a mercy-killing defence or offence . |
| 22 | The underlined letters of each country make up the word . |