Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] up the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus we may write , where t is a random , serially independent variable designed to pick up the random movements in the risk premium . |
| 2 | The sub-arterial road was to be an intermediate class of road designed to link up the main arterials to the local roads . |
| 3 | Another problem which electric fish have circumvented is that very sensitive receptors are needed to pick up the weak signals of other fish , and such receptors would be swamped by the fish 's own field . |
| 4 | The herd tends to flee together and the stripes are thought to jumble up the individual shapes and make the fleeing herd look like one great mass of black and white patterning . |
| 5 | He was persuaded to buy up the remaining freeholds of the Monico block in order to promote an acceptable redevelopment scheme ; this took shape as a podium , a tall block and a large advertisement panel . |
| 6 | I must congratulate Michael Calvin on his article ( Daily Telegraph , March 31 ) in which he highlighted my son being told to cover up the Olympic Rings on his Great Britain uniform , which he otherwise wore so proudly . |
| 7 | There were tracks in the cooled fat where chunks of bread had been used to mop up the tasty juices of the meal . |
| 8 | He helped by doing much of the specialist machining work and designing many of the one-off items needed to marry up the different parts . |
| 9 | The 16 tonne lorry depositing a load is one of the 7,500 that are needed to make up the specified contours . |
| 10 | The farmers affected broke up the new flood-banks , and after being arrested initially , were released on the grounds that the enclosure commissioners had exceeded their powers in constructing the drainage works . |
| 11 | Hurrying to make up time , Manville had cut himself shaving , and the cluttered bathroom medicine cabinet had stubbornly refused to yield up the secret whereabouts of the styptic pencil . |
| 12 | Under the Brady deal , the banks that made these swaps were asked to tear up the old loans and choose among three new deals in their place . |
| 13 | MacArthur maintained that the moves he had taken to break up the large banks would prevent a repetition of the devious methods formerly used to provide a subsidy for Japanese textile exports . |
| 14 | Lesley had begun to gather up the remaining cups , but at the mention of Charlotte 's name she put down the tray abruptly , and turned with a startled smile . |
| 15 | The results of this voyage were published in fifty large volumes between 1880 and 1895 , and represented international collaboration in oceanography and marine biology ; the most eminent authorities in the world were chosen to write up the various results and describe the collections . |