Example sentences of "[adj] by [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | TNCs tend to get round this by buying up or establishing their own local suppliers ( see Bennett and Sharp , 1985 ) . |
| 2 | They go about this by jumping up and down a lot and cranking the drum machine up to unfeasible volumes . |
| 3 | Dennis and his friend Tommy want to stop this by setting up a National Centre where doctors and medical scientists can undertake research to prevent premature birth . |
| 4 | We can do this by setting up a role play . |
| 5 | The 1944 Education Act provided for this by drawing up what is called the dual system of county schools ( ie non-denominational ) and Aided Schools whether Catholic or Church of England where a denominational education and environment would be provided . |
| 6 | As sure as Concorde 's nose is pointed , the partners ' governments will have to subsidise this by coughing up so-called ‘ launch aid ’ . |
| 7 | She did this by lining up the nuclei of radioactive atoms in a magnetic field , so that they were all spinning in the same direction , and showed that the electrons were given off more in one direction than another . |
| 8 | Airtours 's progress reflected this by notching up its sixth successive year of profits . |
| 9 | It does , however , make it more likely to happen , and facilitates this by opening up the political space in which local differentiation can occur . |
| 10 | Do this by tying up the ball valve ( so the kitchen tap still operates ) and opening the cold taps even if it is a hot tap which is being rewashered . |
| 11 | Only two years ago I myself wrote an essay which uses all three of these mechanisms directly about Rose of Lima : it diagnoses her ‘ problem ’ as a sado-masochistic relationship to God , it relates this causally to a religious culture which is viciously sexist and heterosexist , and it suggests that we deal with all this by growing up into spiritual maturity and putting such alarming eccentricities behind us . |
| 12 | If they know they 're being watched , they try to get clever by splitting up . |
| 13 | ‘ There 's a bloke here , junior minister of something or other , urging old people to cut fuel costs and keep warm by dressing up in newspapers . ’ |
| 14 | An official teachers ' guide may recommend project work and locally based enquiry , whereas the official timetable renders such initiatives impossible by dividing up the day into small fragments . |
| 15 | Panamanians on the Canal Zone border celebrate the coming into effect of the Canal Treaties in 1979 by tearing up the American flag |
| 16 | ‘ But , until we do , you can make yourself useful by binding up this hole in my arm before I give you the pleasure of bleeding to death . ’ |
| 17 | Each reader could do a great deal of good by taking up this matter with his or her local MP or prospective candidate . |
| 18 | Yesterday the Bank of England raised around £3 billion by getting up early and cashing in on the market 's victory leap . |
| 19 | It was a short-lived success , and the principal landowners in both East and West Sussex forced him out in 1820 by putting up one of his neighbours , Curteis of Windmill Hill against him . |
| 20 | Hezbollah retaliated on Oct. 27 by firing up to 30 Katyusha rockets into Israel , killing an Israeli civilian in the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Shemona and two Lebanese civilians in the south of the " security zone " . |
| 21 | The proud deck hatches made matters worse by throwing up any water that came along the deck ; they should really have been recessed . |
| 22 | In fact the latest development is that they do n't even do that by picking up a telephone , the message is teleprinted on , onto a message pad there , and when they run in they pull off this pad , and there 's the whole text for what they 've got to do , where they 've got to go , and so on . |
| 23 | The stand should be planned as early as possible by drawing up a checklist of everything required , checking limitations on stand design , drawing up a checklist of stand services required and a progress chart for the preparation of all products and exhibits , including their manufacture , transportation to the exhibition , assembly and dismantling . |
| 24 | This is made possible by whipping up speed with a continuous pull on the lines by the flyer . |
| 25 | I made Joanna respectable by putting up my anchor lantern , made myself a mug of cocoa , and turned in . |