Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [vb base] up the [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 children make up the majority of patients in growth disorder clinics . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This is the point at which many patients give up the therapy , said Mrs Henry . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | Hard to return for seven days and in those days churn up the past and curdle precious memories . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | If you have any views pick up the phone and call me now . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The underlined letters of each country make up the word . |