Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [verb] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The student must also write up the medical history and examination findings and discuss the psychosocial , ethical , legal , and nursing considerations of the patient 's case . |
| 2 | Pollitt reported in January 1936 : The Central Committee believe that whilst everything possible should be done to support and strengthen the NUWM we must now open up the wider perspective of one united unemployed organisation identified with , and part of , the Trades Councils and the Trade Union Congress . |
| 3 | This would , he thought , assist in deterrence because ‘ in crude , vulgar minds , the seductive picture of a particularly advantageous crime should immediately call up the associated idea of punishment ’ ( Beccaria , 1963 : 57 ) . |
| 4 | He would see it through , he would find the Way Out , And he might not even stop at simply escaping ; he might just smash up the whole foul contraption of their testing and imprisonment apparatus — this " life " — while he was about It . |
| 5 | And unless the city knows that it 's hopeless , they might simply pick up the whole war again . |
| 6 | For all their talk about the wisdom of the marketplace , the Thatcher government could not give up the paternalistic idea that they had to regulate the independent television companies , with the continuation of the Independent Broadcasting Authority in the guise of an Independent Television Commission . |
| 7 | There were only 500,000 TV sets ( 1957 ( and 50 per cent of Frenchmen could not pick up the one black-and-white channel : but politicians perceived the potential of what was to become — under de Gaulle — a mass medium . |
| 8 | I could hardly walk up the front door . |
| 9 | They 'd probably end up the best of friends . |
| 10 | But the most annoying aspect of the early period was the lack of real interest shown by our first council members — at times we could n't muster up the required six members for a quorum at the monthly meetings . |
| 11 | If he could n't keep up the whacked — out , languid image , you feel he 'd be ripping himself apart with guilt and recriminations . |
| 12 | He tried to hit me , kept pummelling me with his podgy fists , but he could n't summon up the necessary enthusiasm . |
| 13 | The more successful Du Pont synthetic rubber factory could never mop up the ever-growing pool of surplus labour . |
| 14 | Realizing that I may well end up the whipping boy if things go wrong , I attempt , in bankers ' parlance , to ‘ cover my ass ’ . |
| 15 | New occasions of conflict were now appearing and would eventually break up the long peace , and as this became clearer so did the essentially competitive nature of the European system . |
| 16 | The learned abbot , Lupus of Ferrières , consoling the layman Einhard on the death of his wife , pointed out that God had allowed Absalom to be killed despite the prayers of David ; and Agobard , archbishop of Lyon , writing against superstition , asked Louis the Pious what use it was to suppose that God would always show up the just in judicial ordeals , when he had allowed Josiah to perish in battle against the Egyptians . |
| 17 | Co-location of staffs would help to break down barriers between the Services , and the development of tri-Service staffs at lower levels would also build up the necessary expertise . |
| 18 | Three charges are probably enough for seeing the general trend so we shall now sum up the two partial energies |
| 19 | My father ca n't climb up the narrow ladder from the top floor ; and , even if he could , I know he would n't be able to negotiate the twist you have to make to get from the top of the ladder , round the brickwork of the chimney flues , and into the loft proper . |
| 20 | and we will not give up the good things in life for Greenpeace and for a clean environment |
| 21 | However , the likelihood is that processing and seeking will be entirely overlapped so this will not hold up the overall run very seriously . |
| 22 | A young , green horse will be weak but if worked correctly will gradually build up the necessary muscle to enable him to perform the required movements . |
| 23 | At the DOS prompt ( > ) pressing F3 will automatically bring up the last line you typed . |
| 24 | ‘ It will probably open up the whole issue again , ’ he commented . |
| 25 | This will often clear up the particular concern . |
| 26 | It will selectively build up the thinned fibres , across which osmotic diffusion will be most rapid . |
| 27 | For them , classic clothes no longer have to be fussy or stuffy — an increasing number of British men want classic style , but wo n't give up the comfortable feel of the designer clothes they got used to in the Eighties . |
| 28 | I can only pick up the linguistic crumbs . |
| 29 | Obviously they can not weigh up the comparative cost of some type of credit which is beyond their ken . |
| 30 | On such capital-intensive projects , any over-runs can rapidly push up the overall costings . |