Example sentences of "it [verb] up the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | doctrine of original sin under the guise of a genetically determined bio-grammar of cultural values , by colleagues who would clearly like to think of themselves as hard-boiled scientific rationalists , both amusing and disconcerting ; but it points up the difficulties of the problem ! |
| 2 | The programme does not apportion blame , or claim a conclusive link , but it points up the lack of long-term monitoring on people working with the chemicals , and suggests warning labels on the products do not always make clear what type of protective clothing is suitable . |
| 3 | It points up the importance of admissions , and suggests that the assessment of a course may ‘ wash back ’ on its content and aims . |
| 4 | Undramatic in its effect and narrow in its scope , highly forgettable and often forgotten by historians , it made up the bulk of parliamentary business . |
| 5 | It builds up the foundations of the grammar system and essential vocabulary , as appropriate to the learner 's needs at this level . |
| 6 | An onshore wind will also be difficult since it builds up the waves into difficult chop which can break on the beach with mast-breaking force . |
| 7 | How large were the , were the classes with these influx of all these , di did it boost up the numbers in the ? |
| 8 | Used it to patch up the hole in our roof . |
| 9 | We are not in the business of expecting other people who can ill afford it to pick up the cost of a single person 's discount for the rich . |
| 10 | ‘ It gobbled up the bird in one go , ’ said a mournful bird-watcher yesterday . |
| 11 | Sometimes a mass of viscous lava gets intruded near the surface , but does n't actually manage to break through ; instead it forces up the surface of the ground on top , forming a considerable hill where there was no hill before . |
| 12 | For it cuts up the grass like farmyard manure , it chops it up you see and it rots quick and makes the grass grow quicker . |
| 13 | And it cuts up the grass in wee bits and instead of er making the roads better it makes them worse . |
| 14 | The natural way to interpret the EPR experiment is not that it shows up the incompleteness of quantum theory but that it manifests the falsity of naive locality . |
| 15 | This not only disturbed the Junker sense of social stability , but played havoc with their income since it opened up the estates to the market force of unfettered labour : the Junkers were obliged to acknowledge a world that they had been desperately trying to shut out . |
| 16 | Such a practice eventually attracted the suspicion and hostility of Parliament ; it opened up the possibility of the monarch exercising a substantial ‘ pay-roll ’ influence over Parliament itself . |
| 17 | Those advocating power boards found this argument especially persuasive , since it opened up the possibility of continued cooperation between the two sides of the industry at regional level , and of the continued joint use of common services . |
| 18 | I lost a lot of pictures , but it opened up the night-time for me and I felt that the mood came out . |
| 19 | Coming so soon after the fiasco of Barricades Week , it opened up the prospect of new opportunities in foreign policy and reinforced a determination on de Gaulle 's part to liquidate the Algerian problem as soon as possible , even at the expense of major concessions to the FLN and its government-in-exile , the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic or GPRA . |
| 20 | It conjures up the picture of an omnipotent and independent sovereign — the image actively cultivated by the ideology of Tsarism . |
| 21 | It gathers up the movement of the house as we pass from kitchen to living room or dining room , or kitchen to bedrooms . |
| 22 | Larkin 's poem complains in concert ; it takes up the question of what it is to be sexually debarred . |
| 23 | It takes up the concept of ‘ covenant ’ already familiar in the ancient world . |
| 24 | That itself should n't er impose er any greater cost on auditors , but it should , and this is the crucial point I think , it should bolster the ability of auditors to insist that their client companies er are forthcoming and open and where necessary correct if they can er problems which might otherwise bring their authorised status er into question and therefore it is a welcome enhancement of the law , it toughens up the law without imp imposing the costs about which he 's rightly concerned . |
| 25 | It opens up the possibility for a male to come along and displace or remove the sperm stored from a previous mating . |
| 26 | Its value lies in the way it opens up the issue for reasoned discussion . |
| 27 | Pursued further , as a form of enlightenment and emancipation , it opens up the possibilities of critical self-reflection , of seeing one 's central pursuits in a new perspective . |
| 28 | He turned quickly and saw it coming up the slope behind him . |
| 29 | He goes in , he trips the toggle , the toggle jiggers the trapeze , the trapeze lets go the springy pole , it whips back , it pulls up the door to the basket … the big fish is the prisoner now . |
| 30 | The second problem with knitting too many rows of tuck is that if a needle is n't knitting ( and , when tucking , it is n't ) it pulls up the knitting on the needles either side of it and can prevent them knitting off correctly . |