Example sentences of "[vb base] up [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It advised a future Conservative cabinet to : ( i ) build up stocks of coal at power stations ; ( ii ) plan contingency coal imports ; ( iii ) introduce dual oil and coal-fired burning in power stations ; ( iv ) cut the social security entitlements of strikers ; and finally , ( v ) set up mobile police squads to deal with flying pickets and obtain sufficient numbers of ‘ reliable ’ non-union drivers to cross picket lines . |
| 2 | Yet average figures often cover up cases of hardship and even if in real terms salaries for some academics appear generous , others feel disadvantaged and discontent . |
| 3 | And rather than being at the mercy of the autobiographer 's choice of what to mention , we can ask questions and open up areas of significant memory which would otherwise have been lost . |
| 4 | They open up levels of reality not easily accessible to the more literal approach and relate to elements within the depth of man 's soul . |
| 5 | Drake easily told by greatly elongated central tail feathers , 4 in. of total length , combined with striking pattern of dark head and throat and white breast and stripe up side of neck . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | My second is never give up hope of eventual restitution . |
| 8 | SparcWare is driven by the need to lower the support costs that eat up 50% of every software engineering dollar and expand the market for independent software vendors . |
| 9 | This is not cheap : housing costs eat up 44% of a typical wage-earner 's income , as opposed to 14% in the 1950s . |
| 10 | Meals out eat up 20pc of nation 's food bill |
| 11 | She would drive to the nursery in the spring and pick up boxes of spring flowers , pansies , violets , crocuses , iris , lilies of the valley , daffodils , and jonquil , and set them lovingly in the damp sweet-sour earth . |
| 12 | Does the governors ' report to parents ever pick up elements of dissatisfaction and ways in which this was addressed ? |
| 13 | In the Union Territory of Nagaland , Christians make up 85% of the population . |
| 14 | Of the 169 companies listed , five make up 85% of the value of the composite index . |
| 15 | You ask me she 's got make up loads of excuses . |
| 16 | Fourth , high speed printers make up 30% of UK revenues . |
| 17 | Take delivery as an example : each of the requirements of material , quantity , time , location and documents is marked and when added together these make up 30% of the total . |
| 18 | However , the gap between the sexes is narrowing : men now make up 57% of students in higher education , compared with 63% in 1980–1 and 67% in 1970–1 ( Government Statistical Service , 1989 , Table 27 ) . |
| 19 | Architect of the drive towards ‘ People 's Television ’ , Sydney Newman took with him to the BBC his observations on the experiment , which he summed up by saying , ‘ Children of today , who make up part of our vast audience , are well informed and are capable of some pretty sophisticated judgements . |
| 20 | In the USA , black Americans , who make up 12% of the population , have traditionally formed a distinct social stratum at the base of the stratification system . |
| 21 | The country 's farm-workers and labourers make up 17% of the population , yet they are ignored by the mass media . |
| 22 | Their rural cousins , who still make up 75% of the population , scratch a living from the soil . |
| 23 | So do the conventions that make up rules of the road . |
| 24 | And while products make up 28% of turnover , the group also has a strong recurring revenue stream , and is keen to exploit it further — 28% of income comes from maintenance , 44% from services : consultancy , technical support and training . |
| 25 | But what about the outcome of the usual monitoring visits — which still make up 80% of the subject assessor 's time ? |
| 26 | According to the 1986 English House Condition Survey , households 75+ only make up 10% of all households , but they occupy almost a third of dwellings lacking basic amenities and 16% of unfit dwellings . |
| 27 | Accidents and vandalism make up 25pc of claims for loss of use of the vehicle . ’ |
| 28 | The triceps make up 60% of the upper arm while the biceps make up only 40% and yet it is still the case that most people tend to have overdeveloped biceps . |
| 29 | This is expected to be the first of many similar cases to come to light as local councils draw up registers of contaminated land under the Environmental Protection Act . |
| 30 | Sadly , however , when psychologists set up games of Iterated Prisoner 's Dilemma between real humans , nearly all players succumb to envy and therefore do relatively poorly in terms of money . |