Example sentences of "[vb base] up the [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sheer walls thirty feet high enclose you , the way upstream being a clamber up the smooth lip of a nine-foot dry waterfall that takes you into Upper Ease Gill Kirk . |
| 2 | We must not only abide by a precise form , but also build up the right waves of emotion to give it full human significance . |
| 3 | Sir : A few hours after reading Terry Coleman 's article on the United Nations General Assembly ( 30 September ) , I came across this passage in Trollope 's Barchester Towers , which exactly expressed my feelings , and , I hope , those of many others of your readers : I know no life that must be so delicious as that of a writer for the newspapers … to thunder forth accusations against men in power ; show up the worst side of everything that is produced ; to pick holes in every coat ; to be indignant , sarcastic , jocose , moral , or supercilious ; to damn with faint praise , or crush with open calumny . |
| 4 | This is , however , a revealing case study in that disagreements show up the different modes of explanation clearly . |
| 5 | She heard him catch at air , and cough up the last slime of the river . |
| 6 | Snuff up the future carnage of the flight . |
| 7 | Not only did the fragrances of the essences cover up the putrid smells of gangrenous wounds , they also suppressed them by retarding putrefaction . |
| 8 | I retrace my steps and walk up the righthand arm of the T , where the roadway is closed by a second set of iron gates . |
| 9 | More generalised disruptive markings which simply break up the broad shape of the body are found in the many spotted or striped species . |
| 10 | The general appearance of the area is a drab one : there are few green spaces and few trees break up the uniform lines of terraced and semi-detached housing . |
| 11 | The journey is scenically attractive , and Trogen is a neat village where white-fronted , red-roofed villas spread up the green slopes of the Gibris . |
| 12 | ‘ go around and hold up the northern half of this wood . |
| 13 | In fact the script , which saw American lawyer Thomas Ward cleared of the charge of stealing £5.2 million from Guinness while he was working on the brewing giant 's takeover of Distillers Group , did little more than tie up the loose ends of the storyline . |
| 14 | Open up the last bit of paper and all will be revealed . |
| 15 | b ) Add up the three angles of each triangle and compare your answers . |
| 16 | c ) Add up the three angles of the four other triangles you have drawn in this exercise . |
| 17 | Why did those ancient replicators give up the cavalier freedom of the primeval soup and take to swarming in huge colonies ? |
| 18 | With the bolt in the hole , bring up the second part of the joint , and mark round the circumference of the bolt . |
| 19 | From the corner of her eye , she watched him pick up the first coil of rope . |
| 20 | Pick up the second edge of the band keeping the stitches in the hooks again , then knit them through . |
| 21 | using the yellow latch tool , pick up the left half of the first stitch on the right into the hook . |
| 22 | The choline-containing phospholipids make up the major fraction of the lipid exposed at the cell surface , while the negatively charged phospholipids are confined to the cytoplasmic surface of the bilayer . |
| 23 | Zimbabwe 's traditional agricultural and mining sectors still make up the major portion of exports and are vulnerable to price changes . |
| 24 | Red clovers , alsikes , and trefoil , also very productive but short lived , make up the leguminous portion of these mixtures . |
| 25 | This tripartite distinction , easy to uphold on the grounds of typography , is complicated , however , by the fact that fragments of the italicized Lord 's Prayer passage find themselves brought in from the right-hand margin to form part of the body of the text when , further truncated , they make up the liturgical stutter of |
| 26 | This can not be done by restricting attention to its formal properties , the relations and regularities which make up the internal mechanism of the device . |
| 27 | And particularly over the last session we talked about the symbolic actions that make up the actual point of confirmation , the confirming of the sacrament , of the sacrament of confirmation . |
| 28 | For the working poor , social-security payments typically make up the largest part of their tax bill . |
| 29 | Participants in the Youth Training Scheme ( YTS ) make up the largest share of these , accounting for nearly nine per cent of all temporary workers , and participants in the Community Programme ( CP ) together with a small number in the Community Industry programme make up almost all the remainder , accounting for just over four per cent . |
| 30 | Not surprisingly , for a country which is second only to Russia for the scale of its distances ( and second to no country but Norway on a per capita energy consumption basis ) motor fuels make up the largest element of oil consumption . |