Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] up [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sun wo n't let go of the advantages of its own technology , which include font maker technology originally from its 1988 acquisition of Folio Inc ( UX No 198 ) which speeds up font design , especially when big-alphabet Japanese , Korean , Taiwan and Chinese applications are involved . |
| 2 | The 16-tonnes Shear Pack is the remotely controlled machine which cuts up fuel assemblies ready for the next stage in reprocessing , the chemical separation of the various elements . |
| 3 | The best known of these are zeolite , which takes up ammonia ; and charcoal , which will not remove any part of the nitrogen cycle chemicals but will purify the water of many of the unpleasant things that arrive unwanted through the tap including chlorine , and remove tinges of colour from the water . |
| 4 | Oil company officials said that they were excited at the new possibilities which opens up territory equivalent in size to the oil-producing state of Texas . |
| 5 | The microphone may be built into the camera , in which case it is an omnidirectional microphone which picks up sound in a very general way . |
| 6 | The only media contact I have with the world is via the car battery and radio which picks up Radio Sarajevo and Radio Belgrade . ’ |
| 7 | This is a slow launch which picks up speed and fades several times , and it is usually caused by a shortage of fuel or mechanical trouble on the winch or car . |
| 8 | It sets one hesitating between general admiration and the attempt to give point to frontality or some such term : anything to obtain leverage on a narrative mode which sweeps up event and idea , fictional past and stream-ofconsciousness present , into a single impulse of this immediacy and power . |
| 9 | ONE of the things which sums up Border rugby is that when one arrives at Mansfield Park for a match , the bloke cheerfully parking cars in the wind and rain is liable to be one of Hawick 's living legends . |
| 10 | Do n't use soap , which dries up skin on the face . |
| 11 | This training , quite different from the acquisition of knowledge , skill and technique which makes up education today , will be directed towards the understanding of one 's self and releasing the unique potential of each person . |
| 12 | The idea of an " objective view " may suggest that there is one true body of knowledge which makes up History . |
| 13 | We have a marketing executive who signs up golf clubs . |
| 14 | Mrs Jeryl Whitelock ( a good friend of Convocation ) presented Sir Michael Bishop and Ed Parker , who heads up CAMPUS made a very humorous introduction of Duncan Nichol , chief of the N.H.S. who had a mind-blowing multibillion pounds to spend . |
| 15 | As Prest and Turvey ( 1965 , p. 688 ) state : ‘ Construction of a fast motorway , which itself speeds up traffic and reduces accidents , may lead to more congestion or more accidents on feeder roads if they are left unimproved . ’ |
| 16 | It is not difficult to think of other examples — the man who takes up golf to be seen with the ‘ right sort of people ’ the competitor more interested in the prize than the process of winning it ; the senior common-room member who can not converse without showing off . |
| 17 | In The Games , he was cast as British milkman Harry Hayes , who takes up athletics for a joke , is spotted by a former champion runner and ends up in an Olympic Marathon . |
| 18 | She plays Isobel Hetherington — a young woman with three daughters — who takes up residence in a seaside resort during the hot summer of 1887 . |
| 19 | The darkness of the beginning of the poem is suddenly illuminated to a ‘ low stream-line brightness ’ towards the end when she picks up speed and moves from a misty , black and yet dignified depression to a kind of elation . |
| 20 | She picks up speed in the late evening , after most of the passengers have eaten . |
| 21 | But Jeffrey Katzenberg , chairman of Walt Disney , says : ‘ She seems to be a person who stirs up publicity for herself by attacking her directors and leading men . |
| 22 | Marshall does n't quite know what to do with Geena Davis ' study in female renunciation as star player Dottie , a woman who gives up baseball to be a good wife . |
| 23 | friend of Mrs Jarley , a penurious rhymester who makes up advertising jingles . |
| 24 | We goes up town the following week then to get and I forget what I was looking for , oh it was I was looking for your blouse |
| 25 | Well really , what I 'm trying to tell the children is that plants need water , it drinks up water in order to live . |
| 26 | For instance it buys up stock which is nearing its redemption date , so as not to have to make large repayments over a short period of time . |
| 27 | It creeps up insidiously ; it creeps up step by step ; and all of a sudden the unfortunate citizen realizes that [ freedom ] has gone … |
| 28 | IT TAKES UP GARDENING . |
| 29 | First , it takes up water and swells after ingestion so , taken before meals , it exerts a satiating effect and may decrease energy intake . |
| 30 | He backs up Mill 's claim that he was acting in self defence . |