Example sentences of "may [vb infin] up [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For people with long-standing difficult social circumstances that may throw up a crisis at any time , intervention might best combine practical help with a scheme to foster the person 's sense of control over his or her life , to reduce their sense of hopelessness . |
| 2 | Each student can make up a package of tests to go for ; he may repeat those that he fails , without the social disaster of being kept down a year ; and he may make up a mix of practical and theoretical according to a plan worked out with his class teacher , and bearing in mind what he aims to do next . |
| 3 | It is thought that the defence is most relevant in the context of take-overs where a merchant bank may build up a stake in a target company for a prospective bidder . |
| 4 | For example , a designer may build up a sequence of actions which an operator must follow in order to cause his product to function properly — he has synthesised the task from a knowledge of how the machine or other product was designed to function . |
| 5 | If you listen carefully , over two or three interviews you may build up an understanding of the themes and patterns of what the person is trying to say , through watching out for repetition . |
| 6 | The judge may look up the meaning of a word in a dictionary or technical work ; but this ordinary meaning may be controlled by the particular context . |
| 7 | Under the Industrial Courts Act of 1919 the minister may set up a court of enquiry into a trade dispute . |
| 8 | Either House may set up a committee of inquiry into any matter it wishes , as the House of Commons chose to do on the occasion of the Aberfan disaster of 1966 . |
| 9 | Observers predict that industry may set up an equivalent to Duales System Deutschland ( DSD — the national waste collecting company established in the wake of the consumer packaging law ) . |
| 10 | A qualified accountant may take up a position as : |
| 11 | Chapter 6 formalises a decision-making model in which a household may take up a number of different income opportunities according to its capability and the ‘ entry costs ’ of such opportunities . |
| 12 | However , burying a pet in your garden may stir up a variety of unexpected emotions shortly afterwards . |
| 13 | To make matters worse , chemical reactions on the surfaces of the ice cloud particles may speed up the rate of ozone depletion by some forms of chlorine especially chlorine monoxide ( figure 6.8 ; Stolarski , 1988 ) . |