Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [vb base] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | He does not have any feel for how strategy and the construction of social constituencies of support match up , or for wider social and cultural themes . |
| 2 | Brother turns against brother as the devotees of the Cult of Pleasure stir up trouble in every city and town . |
| 3 | As soon as the flow becomes established , in fact , piles of solid lumps of lava build up at the sides of the flow , and help to confine it to its course . |
| 4 | Yet we often find that in such societies the arrangement of highly unorthodox marriage alliances between " wrongly related " kinsmen or between non-kinsmen is an essential part of the fabric of small-scale politics through which men of influence build up their power . |
| 5 | Aaron Hicklin , in Mostar ( left ) , learns how a beautiful mountain region in Bosnia-Herzegovina is co-existing with war after generations of rural tranquillity Centuries of peace go up in smoke |
| 6 | She felt a deep flush of embarrassment crawl up her neck as she gauged how far the sound of her and Mandy 's conversation might have carried . |
| 7 | Questions of meaning open up vistas which can be exciting to explore . |
| 8 | I mean I think the first is that the kind of evidence one picks up , none of it on its own can be considered , I think , to be totally objective or totally valid , but what it does is it builds up a part of a picture and gradually different sorts of evidence build up a rather more complicated , rather more perhaps accurate picture of a situation , and it 's really the cross-checking of different kinds of evidence that in the end gives the thing some kind of validity . |
| 9 | Even some brands of muesli contain up to 25 per cent sugar . |
| 10 | Loads of water get up through the gates . |
| 11 | ‘ We 're simply disappointed to see this kind of attack turn up in Li Peng 's work report , ’ British Embassy spokeswoman Janet Rogan said after the speech . |
| 12 | As he dropped her outside her flat Merrill felt a small hollow of apprehension open up in her stomach . |
| 13 | In consequence , police modes of thought build up into classifiable systems of praxis which are the product of dealing with the extremes of social experience . |
| 14 | Sometimes , small lava fountains play in the centre , and these reveal just how completely liquid lava can be , as it splashes and sloshes round the base of the fountain ; at other times , small jets of gas blow up through the lava in fiery gouts , churning up the lake into glowing whorls and currents of molten rock . |
| 15 | When will the Secretary of State wake up to the realities of public finance in the United Kingdom ? |
| 16 | Egypt is a very humbling place , with its larger-than-life statues and obelisks serenely standing since before the time of Christ , and the mammoth pyramids whose blocks of stone weigh up to forty tons each ; this is a land which inspires constant awe and disbelief . |
| 17 | So that 's the difference between group pick up and call pick up . |
| 18 | The final model was sprayed matt black with car touch up paint . |
| 19 | Triphosphor lamps with krypton give up to 70 per cent more light than the standard 38-mm argon-filled lamps . |
| 20 | It is difficult to find an exact parallel with motor traffic , but would motorists for example put up with having to drive over 200m. of rough stuff in order to get onto a motorway ? |
| 21 | if you ca n't make it to the Manor do n't forget to switch on and cheer the Central Live match this sunday afternoon … what else is going on … headlines in action round up |
| 22 | Further deployments ( with American crews ) were not ruled out — though Washington did not in practice take up this option . |
| 23 | There is no reason to believe that , should the demand for labour in industry pick up again , the exodus of young workers from agriculture will not be renewed . |
| 24 | Small-scale hydropower projects and electricity generated from waste make up the majority of the schemes which have received approval . |
| 25 | Perhaps it did not in truth add up to very much . |
| 26 | Some varieties still in selection have up to 50% of their florets still open . |
| 27 | Higher rates of discount on bills would in turn drive up interest rates on other types of borrowing and lending that compete with bills ( e.g. short-term bank loans ) . |
| 28 | The children in turn pick up the corks in their mouths and dip them into the paint . |
| 29 | It is a daily experience in the lives of most women , who in turn make up statistically the greater part of the population . |
| 30 | Fourth , it stipulated that once Saddam Hussein had been overthrown " direct and free " elections would be held to a constituent council , which would in turn draw up a new constitution . |