Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [verb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1812 Cuvier used this technique to break up the chain of being . |
| 2 | Reports were carried by Agence-France Presse on May 1 of heavy fighting around Saa'da involving Moslem tribes opposed to unity , and by the UK newspaper the Independent on May 12 suggesting that Saudi Arabia was fomenting this resistance to hold up the unity process [ but see p. 37266 for official Saudi position welcoming unification ] . |
| 3 | This study followed up a cohort of 386 patients aged 65 + for six months after their discharge home . |
| 4 | This study shows up a lot of the over-simplifications in the ‘ status consciousness ’ argument . |
| 5 | This chapter takes up the theme of industrial determination introduced in relation to the Northern Region in Chapter 3 . |
| 6 | The first section of this chapter sums up the differences which have emerged between legacies and trusts in the course of this book , and goes on to consider whether or how far or in what sense classical law can be said to have reached a fusion of legacy and trust . |
| 7 | ‘ And what 's to stop this dame tanking up the deal later ? |
| 8 | This Act set up a Board of Education to supervise the education system . |
| 9 | ‘ This picture sums up the film . |
| 10 | This picture sums up the Falklands campaign . ’ |
| 11 | Identification of this group opens up the problem of the date of the king 's baptism , and by extension the chronology as well as the interpretation of the second half of his reign . |
| 12 | This quotation sums up the reason for the publication by WACC of Few Voices , Many Worlds . |
| 13 | This surplus pushes up the yen , which ought to boost imports . |
| 14 | The Republic also pointed the way to the future in its attempts to regulate English trade in a way that would help English shipping though its efforts were not immediately successful ; the monarchy took the same legislative approach , but was able to make its laws effective and on this basis set up a system of control of trade in the empire that survived until the middle of the nineteenth century . |
| 15 | This transformation sets up a ring in which the values of the variables shared between the unc are passed around in sequence . |
| 16 | You see , a tour of this magnitude throws up a forest of red tape for the intrepid journo to fight through and you can spend practically a whole day being shuffled from one ‘ no ’ man to the next , understandably concerned to protect their baby from unofficial liggers and prowling hacks . |
| 17 | Both radicals and the men of government criticized traditional Spain and its values ; this criticism opened up the polemics of Europeanization which have lasted until today . |
| 18 | Although this procedure speeds up the meeting , the dangers of such a course of action should be realised . |
| 19 | Which reminds me that the Jocks — I mean the real guardsmen who arrived from England this morning to make up the complement , not you phoney chaps , are going to be given their first lesson this afternoon . |
| 20 | Anyway , everybody rushed out into the kitchen and cook found some ice and wrapped it up in white cloth and then this woman picked up the toad and put it back in the garden but with the ice in her hands . |
| 21 | In a rare act of unity , all the opposition parties save the Communists banded together this week to set up a shadow cabinet . |
| 22 | A FLURRY of legal proceedings will this week turn up the heat in the already simmering Timex dispute in Dundee . |
| 23 | Or does this example point up the absurdity of the assumption ‘ keep everything ’ ? |
| 24 | This analysis sums up a view which is embraced with varying degrees of enthusiasm . |
| 25 | This book picks up the story from there , although it is written by a different author . |
| 26 | As a result , it looks as though any rethink of this weekend goes up the spout in favour of the ghastliness of paper for the beastly bureaucrats . |