Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bank , by rejecting offers at r 1 , is in effect reducing its demand for bills ( D 1 to D 2 ) , and thereby drives up the rediscount rate to r 2 . |
| 2 | The saliva dries and hardens quickly and with repeated flights , the bird slowly builds up the line into a low wall . |
| 3 | The hon. Member for Barrow and Furness ( Mr. Franks ) in the course of an extremely lengthy spech did not answer the question asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Islington , North ( Mr. Corbyn ) about fourth , fifth , sixth , seventh and eighth Trident nuclear submarines , which only points up the fact that this nation needs a programme of conversion from arms manufacture to material for peaceful purposes . |
| 4 | A good catalogue , therefore , makes life easy for its user , and so builds up the supplier 's reputation . |
| 5 | A plan like this not only shows up the priority areas and assists a sensible organisation of the workload ; it also shows where effort should be concentrated and helps in the measurement of success . |
| 6 | The gaming world in part consists of four main islands ( there are rumours of more ! ) and this nicely breaks up the game and avoids the feeling of a bland and repetitive world , ( why does that Island concept ring a bell ? ) and you move from Island to Island by looking at a map and selecting your destination ( sounds VERY familiar ! ) . |
| 7 | Compact benefits students by offering them " value-added " jobs when they have attained their goals , and so opens up the realistic prospect of job satisfaction and career progression . |
| 8 | My father gently picks up the nearest little one and begins to fit its harness on . |
| 9 | We were together all the time : played languid games of tennis on the court behind her house , swam , went on picnics , went for long walks up the lower slopes of Kinabalue , the mountain whose green and mauve shadowed mass loomed over Jesselton . |
| 10 | In other words , rather than introducing other , more persuasive factors , he merely sets up the court as the arbiter of a medical issue , and decides that , of all the criteria involved , the crucial ones for determining how the individual is to be regarded by the law are the biological criteria . |
| 11 | As one trade union succeeds in a wage claim and so moves up the ‘ league table ’ , other unions immediately put in similar wage claims in an attempt to restore their relative positions . |
| 12 | Two of those are being heated by burning blast furnace gas and the third one has the cold air blown through it and the brickwork inside gives up the heat to the er cold air , warms the air and then that 's blown into the blast furnace . |
| 13 | However , the counties have locked themselves into a zero sum game as the competitive drive for success at the playing level , in the belief and expectation that it is this which will increase and sustain revenues , together with accompanying bonus incentives inexorably bids up the price of labour . |
| 14 | A train waiting to go out go out to , er having met the er Nottingham Lincoln , or Lincoln Nottingham line which you can see just goes up the the back there . |
| 15 | The Waterline , then , returns to its origins , as the case study which is Billy 's life painfully dredges up the first scenes of his disorder . |
| 16 | Also , the fence which runs out into the the lake er just breaks up the the distance between the the piece of wood and the bank . |
| 17 | The pectoralis minor muscle contracts and its tendon , the foramen triosseum , passing through pulls up the wing . |
| 18 | It just props up the underlying immune system . ’ |
| 19 | And the BOR is a friendly fellow too ; he may sometimes be a rough diamond , he may swear and complain about the weather , the food , the British Government , but he shrewdly weighs up the people he meets . |
| 20 | [ BELVILLE absent-mindedly picks up the paper that PAMELA has been writing . ] |
| 21 | They may keep this up time and time again until , with luck , the predator finally gives up the chase . |
| 22 | She might go on for years ; I could be as old as she is now before she finally gives up the ghost . |
| 23 | A more equivocal comment that perhaps best sums up the evaluations that led to RCA has been made by Timmons ( 1980 ) : ‘ While these measures [ in soil conservation ] have seldom attained goals , increases in soil erosion were minimised and occasionally soil losses reduced . |
| 24 | But perhaps this best sums up the case for the prosecution . |
| 25 | Sartre 's account thus sets up the articulation of history , univocal meaning , and totality as the indissoluble set of elements required for the validation of Marxism , necessary in order to save it from its detour from itself . |
| 26 | This statement exactly sums up the quality and feeling of Franck 's music . |
| 27 | ‘ Qui plus fait , mie[u]x vault ’ ( ‘ Who does most is worth most ’ ) , the refrain in the Livre de chevalerie written in the middle of the fourteenth century by Geoffroi de Charny , the standard-bearer of King John II of France at the battle of Poitiers , who preferred to stand and die rather than run away in the moment of defeat , aptly sums up the chivalrous attitude to war . |
| 28 | And then if I if I want to ring home see I 'll press that that just brings up the |
| 29 | Linthal takes its name from the river Linth which drains the beautiful transverse valley that largely makes up the canton of Glarus . |
| 30 | The term ‘ royal forest ’ always conjures up the wrong picture . |