Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun sg] [verb] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Main picture : The uncluttered bedroom sums up the atmosphere of the house |
| 2 | The snakes and the tardy remedy make up the entirety of God 's response . |
| 3 | After a juddering landing the cranky plane eases up the runway towards a chalky line reading ‘ stop ’ . |
| 4 | Continue to Quebec City , an old walled city divided into two parts : the picturesque old quarter built entirely on a cliff , and the lower town spreading up the St. Charles River Valley . |
| 5 | The right way to wire up the nation |
| 6 | Yet , at the same time , it said that if there were a coalition Government , it would stop the Labour party putting up the higher rate of tax . |
| 7 | She did not believe Labour was now the party of home ownership , strong defence and financial rectitude : ‘ If it 's that easy for the Labour leader to give up the principles in which he does believe , wo n't it be even easier for him to give up the principles in which he does not believe ? |
| 8 | In a personal attack on Mr Kinnock — a prime target for the Conservative counter-offensive — she added : ‘ If it 's that easy for the Labour leader to give up the principles in which he does believe , wo n't it be even easier for him to give up the principles in which he does not believe ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ The enclosed photo sums up the general verdict of our recent holiday to Zakopane . |
| 10 | Public subsidy may therefore be desirable , but the public commitment to pick up the bills requires public monitoring to ensure that the monopolist continues to minimize costs and produce efficiently . |
| 11 | ( b ) he persistently withdraws or withholds services reasonably required for the occupation of the premises in question as a residence , and ( in either case ) he knows , or has reasonable cause to believe , that the conduct is likely to cause the residential occupier to give up the occupation of the whole or part of the premises or to refrain from exercising any right or pursuing any remedy in respect of the whole or part of the premises . |
| 12 | It 's a curious superstition , the universal instinct to cover up the recently dead . |
| 13 | Indeed , the other EC countries put little pressure on the British delegation to speed up the ERM process , concluding that the time for concessions to Mrs Thatcher 's doubts was now over . |
| 14 | Indeed , the other EC countries put little pressure on the British delegation to speed up the ERM process , concluding that the time for concessions to Mrs Thatcher 's doubts was now over . |
| 15 | Throughout the first three decades of our post-imperial era , equipment-cost inflation has outstripped monetary inflation , and there has been insufficient growth in the British economy to make up the difference . |
| 16 | The British cabinet took up the subject again in Washington in September 1951 . |
| 17 | The old lady picked up the glass and pulled a face . |
| 18 | The old man looked up the staircase in front of them . |
| 19 | He looked backwards expecting to see the rear gunner running up the fuselage to report that his gun had jammed . |
| 20 | It is this increase in oxygen that provides the extra fuel to burn up the food in our internal fire . |
| 21 | The second statement sums up the News International ban precisely , and the following sentence reflects the dilemma that was faced by many librarians in the dispute ; though not by all , because for many librarians who supported the ban there was no dilemma . |
| 22 | To help out , the second player holds up the mirror so that the first player can see his reflection . |
| 23 | The lateral membrane takes up the entire length of one side of the chamber , pushing the grapes against the other side . |
| 24 | The government White Paper issued as a prelude to the reorganisation of local government in England outlined the aims which a new system should incorporate : At the start of the next paragraph the White Paper summed up the problems inherent in this approach with a statement of the classic political dilemma : ‘ Practical realities prevent all these aims being fully achieved together ’ ( DOE 1971:6 ) . |
| 25 | Laboriously the little creature laced up the last two strands of an otherwise perfect web , checked to see every strand was in place , then scuttled to the centre and sat there waiting . |
| 26 | Odinga , who resigned as Kenya 's Vice-President in 1966 , told a press conference that the NDP would seek formal registration and the repeal of provisions in the national Constitution setting up the single party state . |
| 27 | What the maker has done has been to start with a 12-fret guitar design ( not a guitar with only twelve frets , but a guitar with a neck that joins at the 12th as opposed to the 14th fret ) and then he 's combined this with a deep cutaway on the treble side to open up the whole fingerboard for exploration . |
| 28 | It means that there are holes in the DLV's willingness to connect up the evidence and enforce the conclusions it generates . |
| 29 | The larger union swallows up the smaller union , and let's get it straight , the T & g are not taking the G M B over . |
| 30 | Rather , the Prime Minister sums up the sense of the meeting . |