Example sentences of "can [verb] up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Friends who are very dissimilar may not give the same thing to each other , but what each gives can sometimes be even richer for this : it can make up for the other 's deficits . |
| 2 | But nothing can make up for the fact that any improvements in prescribing practice are too late to save Lexie . |
| 3 | Hadley is adamant that , despite the views expressed by Wayne Shelford , nothing can make up for the satisfaction of representing the country of your birth at international level . |
| 4 | This last month , the Bavarians have been going through the painful experience of learning that , where an historic collection is concerned , it is the whole which is greater than the parts , and no saving of individual items can make up for the erosion of that whole . |
| 5 | Even so , considerable errors can build up over the period of ten or more years that elapses between one Census date and the time when the finalized results of the next Census can be used . |
| 6 | Enormous tension can build up along the margin of the two plates and occasionally explodes into immense earthquakes which can , if they strike inhabited portions of the land suffice , wreak terrible damage . |
| 7 | Where leaching is of only moderate intensity , cations released during weathering can build up in the solutions moving through the weathering mantle and the formation of cation-bearing clays such as illite and smectite is favoured . |
| 8 | ‘ You can catch up on the reading in-flight . |
| 9 | Let's see how quickly you can jump up off the floor . |
| 10 | Incidents are categorized by the degree of paperwork involved , and the best shifts are those where ‘ you 're kept busy but with stuff you can clear up on the spot ’ ( FN 26/5/87 , p. 34 ) . |
| 11 | Even women who were constantly abused as children by fathers , stepfathers , uncles or family ‘ friends ’ can grow up with the idea that they 're somehow guilty themselves . |
| 12 | Global-scale investments in new skills and production approaches that can readily be transferred across borders have replaced much of the trade ; few can keep up with the pace of change . |
| 13 | We hope the 4 cylinder speedsters can keep up with the pace . |
| 14 | But it seems that not everyone can keep up with the way our language is changing . |
| 15 | The Ferguson 14M1 is a lightweight portable 14in Colour Television which can be moved easily from room to room — so the family can keep up with the soaps whilst you keep your eye on the ball . |
| 16 | I 'm currently working out measures which can follow up on the policy statement and bring about changes in practice and law . |
| 17 | During the summer months I can usually get away with leaving my boat conveniently tied up to the pier , but only if I am at home to keep an eye on the weather : in Shetland , even in summer , a gale can blow up from the south east , causing a swell to set into the voe . |
| 18 | First , it blots out the past so that a body can face up to the present . |
| 19 | Yeah we can hear up by the canteen . |
| 20 | " There 's rules about who can ride up with the driver , " I said looking at John Russell and wondering if he had any ideas . |
| 21 | ‘ The thinking is that everyone should be placid and passive , as if you can creep up to the polls in carpet slippers . |
| 22 | When you feel that next time you can stand up without the chattering |
| 23 | But now Bulmers reckon they 've invented a tree that can stand up to the stress . |
| 24 | I mean you can go up on the rest of the week , but the day before the holiday and the day after the holiday the |
| 25 | But clearly the it forms two purposes , one is to remove the er the through traffic but also it it forms a purpose of redistribution of the traffic such that er there are er benefits er of getting er traffic off the A sixty one which for example is headed for the for the northern part of Harrogate and that that can come in from the South , it can go up to the A fifty nine and then come back into the northern part of Harrogate without having to pass through the centre of Harrogate . |
| 26 | She can go up to the castle to beg her food . |
| 27 | You can go up for the day . |
| 28 | You now owe me five thousand pound and you can go up into the middle . |
| 29 | ‘ All right , then — Alastair can go up through the Glen of the Birks and use the old byre below Urlar . |
| 30 | Now the problem with that model of proceeding is that you then end up with you can end up with the exploitation of complain procedures for a wide variety of , not all of which you want to countenance , and some of the universities ' and colleges ' experience of trying to run complaint procedures in connection with sexual harassment has been deciding when to try to cool someone down and when a complaint is someone that should be run along with . |