Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [to-vb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is rather to point up the intense cultural sensitivity to the face as a motif in western representation . |
| 2 | One that seems to work well for many managers is merely to divide up the list into three types of activity : |
| 3 | ( It will also have been a waste if the outcome is only to soften up British buyers for Japanese companies to rush in and sell us microcomputers as they have previously sold us domestic electronic equipment . ) |
| 4 | Assistant Chief Constable David Mellor , aged 52 , who is shortly to take up a post as deputy chief constable of South Wales , had just gone to bed when a device planted below the window of a living room exploded at 1.20am . |
| 5 | One other thing is just to chase up procedures we 're going to put on the passes for attendants and visitors and that still has n't been done . |
| 6 | It 's just to go up . |
| 7 | It 's just to make up the numbers , really . |
| 8 | The company is also to set up PDAs in North America and the Far East with dates to be decided . |
| 9 | The trick is simply to add up the numbers . |
| 10 | A stake is there to hold up the tree and not , as is so often seen , the other way round . |
| 11 | He is there to build up Lennie 's character and to build up their dream . |
| 12 | They do n't wish it to happen , but it becomes an impossibility almost for them to stand up to their rights , and Mr talks about rights and no rights is in abstract and we all know how difficult it is then to stand up as a minority when you 're surrounded by that majority , but I 've had personal representations |
| 13 | The latter comes in only when this mechanism is no longer operative , when it fails to apply , and the role of the preposition is then to make up for the inoperative movement of incidence … |
| 14 | The important decision is never to give up working for each other 's benefit . |
| 15 | Could the implication be that today the Christian at work is quietly to put up with any kind of abuse or ill-treatment ? |