Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] up [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a dull launch to the new season , London 's commercial art galleries pick up speed with a really exciting list of new exhibitions . |
| 2 | Each Council has its own plans for its area and is very willing to advise and in many cases back up advice with grant aid . |
| 3 | Then slowly his face clears as the pendulums pick up speed . |
| 4 | Its dendrites pick up information from other neurons , and the axon and its terminals pass this on to other cells . |
| 5 | Brilliant Dragons notch up record win |
| 6 | Because cars take up room , they have the overall effect of spreading people out and making them more insular — driving to a distant supermarket in your car is a different experience to walking to the local shops , where you may meet other members of the community on the way . |
| 7 | But as shopping habits changed many traders shut up shop and moved out blaming recession , traffic restrictions and fewer bus routes . |
| 8 | And as we all know , bids push up share prices . |
| 9 | Yet if he has watched Eastern Europe closely he will have seen that , however the transition begins , be it by round table , coalition government or free election , once Communists give up part of their power they quickly end up losing it all . |
| 10 | According to Werner Behrens of UNIDO , the software will standardise the way countries draw up feasibility studies for development projects funded by , for example , the World Bank or the US 's Agency for International Development . |
| 11 | It also recommended that EC countries tighten up import controls . |
| 12 | This causes massive expansion of air , and demonic winds churn up dust so that one seems to be walking on the bed of a murky sea . |
| 13 | These planes eat up turbulence . |
| 14 | Unlike the trainees , established dealers pick up market gossip with a lightning instinct . |
| 15 | All the majors and two of the mini-majors set up production subsidiaries in London . |
| 16 | Fifth operation — ( a ) finishers frame up corridor and lavatory partitions ; fit window bars and lavatory fittings . |
| 17 | If boards take up moisture once they 've been fixed , they will expand and distort . |
| 18 | Following a discussion of the optimal size of clubs , it is appropriate to consider how individuals take up club membership , i.e. how they choose a local authority in which to reside . |
| 19 | Banks step up support for new technology |
| 20 | Carers step up campaign |
| 21 | American Technologies set up shop in Warsaw in 1990 , and is best known as one of two local distributors of printers from IBM Corp spin-out Lexmark International Inc . |
| 22 | Draughting machines build up information about components in the computer memory . |
| 23 | Organisers set up safety netting well beforehand , then find course setters have changed the lines , so the nets are in the wrong places . |
| 24 | Well lots of things dry up water do n't they ? |
| 25 | And God says the wicked are like the tossing sea , for it can not be quiet , and it 's waters toss up refuse and mud . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , salary surveys throw up evidence of the spread of cash bonuses . |
| 27 | Thugs beat up heart op Phil |
| 28 | Nazis carve up girl 's face |
| 29 | Surveying reports on the relevant customary behaviour in 350 separate ‘ societies ’ , Tylor was able to demonstrate that , when the newlyweds set up house with the wife 's kin , avoidance behaviour between the latter and the husband occurred more frequently than could be expected on the basis of mere chance . |
| 30 | If governing bodies set up finance committees as part of a school 's organization to meet the requirements of local management , governors and parents are more likely to be able to be involved in management decisions . |