Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] up [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I referred to Yorkshire six minutes ago — it has taken the hon. Gentleman that long to work up a head of steam . |
| 2 | Next , I want to set up a couple of special features which will probably be planted in containers . |
| 3 | Somebody said , well the Harbourmaster 's not coming , I said , right go back to work and that 's the time I , that 's the time when we had the first baby and erm , that 's the first one we lost and anyhow they put me off for a fortnight and erm I went down to , I say go up the Board of Guardians , that was like the D H S S but a little bit lower and I just start to buy this house soon as I said to this bloke , he live in the council house over here this bloke , what was interviewing me |
| 4 | The result confirmed Mr Yeltsin as the leading figure among radicals who want to speed up the process of reform , and who believe President Gorbachov is not moving fast enough to dismantle the old system . |
| 5 | Choosing the right time and place to bring up the subject of safer sex is important . |
| 6 | Get cook to make up a tray of coffee will you ? ’ |
| 7 | Eventually the scientists at the National Radiological Protection Board hope to set up a network of solar radiation monitors across Britain and Europe . |
| 8 | But stop to add up the value of your house , car , shares , insurance policies — the total is probably more than you realised . |
| 9 | Over time , more complex social routines may be established as adult and infant begin to build up a set of expectancies or joint understandings regarding the meanings of particular behaviours . |
| 10 | Frank will be going into more detail on these and our other businesses , which are all facing an uphill struggle , particularly in the U K and North America , both in deep recession and which you can see continue to make up the bulk of our markets . |
| 11 | If we attempt to sum up the character of these innovations , we must say that they are practical but unprincipled . |
| 12 | ( As examples of the latter , try looking up the length of the river Mississippi in as many reference books as you can find , and compare the answers. ) 5 . |
| 13 | To the accompaniment of one of Alan Dell 's Big Band programmes Patrick told Peter Jennings about the murder and the theft of the letters , the switched bodies and his decision to come out to Romania and try to pick up the scent of John and Angela Bonnard . |
| 14 | He was therefore use to give up the leadership of the BDA at this juncture and to leave it to someone of the new generation to embrace politics in order to achieve a better deal for the deaf . |
| 15 | So of course you rifle the fridge and the larder for signs of malpractice , and even though you 're a wholemeal bread fan ( do you make a fuss over it at hotels in the morning ? ) and you try to keep up a regime of healthy , dull , fresh fruit eating , the evidence is all there : tinned baked beans ; deep frozen specialist pork sausages ; stilton . |
| 16 | As you do so , try to build up a system of classification , explaining your basis for making distinctions . |
| 17 | The nation-state , therefore , is the spatial reference point for most of the crucial transnational practices that go to make up the structures of the global system , in the sense that most transnational practices intersect in particular countries and come under the jurisdiction of particular nation-states . |
| 18 | The Book of Earth , the cornucopia of all the tiny books that go to make up The Book of Languages and even more disconcertingly , The Book of Mirrors , are all locked up in a glass case . |
| 19 | In privatising the Scottish Bus Group in the pattern we have chosen , we aim to set up a number of new , viable independent bus companies which will ensure healthy competition . |
| 20 | Whichever point the patient selects , that is the age from which I start to build up a picture of the character . |
| 21 | Why do people on holiday suddenly start taking up the kind of violent exercise they would n't even contemplate normally ? ’ sighed Jim . |
| 22 | That is what the " diversity of human culture " really amounts to ; the variety of different ways which human beings choose to cut up the continuities of their animal experience . |
| 23 | I 'm a dealer and I 've picked up a couple of pieces which I can probably place with clients |
| 24 | I THINK I 'VE PICKED UP A BUG OF SOME SORT . |
| 25 | When they come to write up the results of their research different anthropologists will , for doctrinal reasons , give very different weight to these two major aspects of the data , but , in the field , the anthropologist must always pay attention to both sides . |
| 26 | Since then , in the last seven years , we 've built up a market of 50,000 tonnes of it at good prices , under the name ‘ Andricite ’ — from anhydride and JCI . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ You 've made up every word of it and you know it . |
| 28 | We 've cleaned up a lot of parts of our city . |
| 29 | We 've , we 've soaked up a lot of pressure without having too many goal attempts at us , and then we 've broke away and scored two goals ; the plan 's worked a treat and I was due to do something right . |
| 30 | But I 've packed up a bundle of bedding — towels — things like that for you to use in the meantime . ’ |