Example sentences of "[v-ing] up the [adj] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this chapter we will channel our energies into opening up the contradictory facets of our personalities and explore the different voices , different tones of voice , that these contradictions make available to us . |
| 2 | Juliette bent down and began picking up the smashed pieces of china . |
| 3 | Because i it is assumed management is learned by picking up the bad habits of your predecessor and their predecessors for the last five hundred years . |
| 4 | The ticket clerk , who is a villainous-looking Copt , is apparently adding up the monetary results of his last night 's murders , and dislikes being interrupted . |
| 5 | The government , indeed , had made careful preparations , both in conserving fuel stocks and protecting the power network with the aid of other European nations , and also in building up the co-ordinating powers of the police nationally to deal with mass picketing . |
| 6 | Ravenous Geac Computer Corp Ltd , Markham , Ontario , hyperactively busy buying up the foreign subsidiaries of moribund computer companies , has now bought NBI Canada Inc for under $800,000 ; the networking company does some $1.6m a year . |
| 7 | Comprising three tiers of small chambers rising up the steep slopes of the Quirinal Hill , the markets were completed by Emperor Trajan in 112 AD and formed the commercial centre of ancient Rome . |
| 8 | When this happens , the records get harder to listen to , the music gets to be like a reproach , stirring up the taunting ghosts of prematurely foregone dreams . |
| 9 | This will help prevent freezing air blowing up the open ends of the waste pipes . |
| 10 | I also enjoy ripping up the rejected drafts of this manuscript . |
| 11 | Frustrated foxes , singing birds , enchanted islands and smiling Chinamen are scattered in a splendid excess of modelling up the trailing vines of inspired invention . |
| 12 | It was not until James Watt , instrument maker at Glasgow University , was given the job of repairing a model Newcomen steam engine , that a major breakthrough was made in the business of powering up the early beginnings of the industrial world . |
| 13 | It is the argument of this book that many of the reasons for this are organizational , and that a very considerable change in attitudes and practice results from taking up the administrative implications of all aspects of resource-based learning ( audio-visual , print-form and other ) and putting them to hand . |
| 14 | In summing up the wet-weather skills of the South Sea Islanders , American journalist Ed Hagerty put it better than anyone , ‘ It seems to rain for everyone except Fiji ’ . |
| 15 | The point is that preference rules give a justification for choosing any well-formed grouping structure which the circumstances of the text seem to warrant ; they provide a guide to weighing up the various claims of syntax , informational focus , prosodic shape and so on . |
| 16 | ‘ It is essential that all decisions are made with the child 's best interests at heart and agencies must perform a careful balancing act , weighing up the known disadvantages of a smoking environment with the positive qualities a particular family has to offer , ’ said Marion Miles , chairwoman of BAAF 's medical group . |
| 17 | I was then brought up to this room , in which , at that point of the day , the sun was lighting up the floral patterns of the wallpaper quite agreeably . |