Example sentences of "to use up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't be tempted to use up the remains of a summer lawn fertiliser , which will contain too much nitrogen . |
| 2 | Unless the failure has occurred below 50 feet or so , once the speed has been regained it is always best to apply full airbrake first to use up any excess height quickly . |
| 3 | If it becomes obvious during the base leg or final turn that you are far too high to be able to get down in the chosen field , it is often possible to make an S-turn to use up some of the height . |
| 4 | Further Topping Ideas : Pizzas allow you to show your creative genius — and to use up all sorts of bits and pieces lurking in the 'fridge ! |
| 5 | It takes such a long time to use up a tin , you probably would n't realise . |
| 6 | Married couples , where one of the spouses has little or no income , should transfer income from deposits and investments into the account of the non-working spouse to use up his or her allowance — that is , a slice of tax free income . |
| 7 | Sometimes , though , it 's easier to take it as it comes — you 'll never be short of a willing gull to use up your leavings in Hastings . |
| 8 | Police believe the purchases were to use up profits from Tokyo brothels and gambling dens . |
| 9 | Mirror Group has agreed to use up to £300 million of its profits over the next 10 to 20 years so that the pension fund , plundered by Mr Robert Maxwell , will be able to meet all its liabilities . |
| 10 | Sue Lawley , for example , on Desert Island Discs ( Radio 4 , Sunday ) is vapidity itself , or , put it another way , elocution alone seems to use up all her mental energy . |
| 11 | In his 1955–56 Annual Report , at the end of a year when insufficient Terminal courses had been provided to use up all available Ministry grant , he commented that ‘ we may find it increasingly difficult to resist a reduction in the number of tutor-organisers we now employ , let alone claim a further appointment , if additional Terminal courses are not successfully organised in both established and new centres ’ . |
| 12 | Given that we are attempting to reach the point where the patient no longer benefits from the remedy then it is appropriate to use up the medicine as quickly as possible . |
| 13 | Those persistent but slightly fattening habits which are the key to your weight problem could be : having ‘ densely packed ’ calories at meals ( that means having a lot of fat , either visible such as butter on your bread or invisible like butter in a cake ) ; snacking in between meals , especially if those snacks include cream , alcohol and sugar ; and not expending energy with exercise to use up the calories . |
| 14 | If you cast a shrewd eye around the countryside in March , you can not fail to notice that spring is heralded not only by splashes of yellow celandines and pale primroses in the hedge-banks , but also by gleaming yellow diggers , hastily working their way up the watercourses to use up their allocated budget before the financial year ends on 1 April . |
| 15 | Lose weight or inches : Exercise alone is unlikely to bring about a great weight loss — in fact you would have to run about two miles to use up 200 calories . |
| 16 | The activated lymphocytes are able to use up glucose extremely quickly . |
| 17 | Policy was now to allow the moran to form manyattas ‘ and then to exercise control over them , and to use up their surplus energy in making them work ’ , the theory being that if the moran were in manyattas , at least the administration knew where they were . |
| 18 | Nor should you use any remedies of this type if a white , crystalline precipitate is visible in the bottle ; however tempting it might be to use up chemicals bought in the spring . |
| 19 | These atoms , as we have seen , are spewed out from dying stars ; but it would take at least a billion years for a star to use up all its helium energy and explode , hence life could not exist in a universe consisting of the shortest-living stars , since the necessary elements such as carbon would not exist . |
| 20 | A good guideline on how much memory to use up with stitch patterns and still leave enough over for techniques and so forth , is that three patterns of the maximum size of 15,840 bits will take 47,520 bits . |
| 21 | We are some way yet from Autumn but that is no reason not to consider the way we can change colours on the needlebed to use up left over yarn or simply make a splash with colours we 've always wanted to knit together . |
| 22 | It penalises the realisation of losses later than gains ; donors of gifts who die within seven years ; owners of non-fungible ( lumpy ) assets who can not ‘ bed and breakfast ’ to use up annual exemptions ; as well as direct as compared with indirect investors through tax-exempt institutions . |
| 23 | It is surprising how much energy it is possible to use up in inner conflicts . |
| 24 | I hope that you may now be encouraged to experiment with weaving , and it may help you to use up those oddments of hand knitting yarn which you do n't have time to knit . |
| 25 | Before parting with the garment it is useful to weigh it , and keep a note of the weight — this helps when you have part cones to use up . |
| 26 | There 's no point in sending them off on endless — no doubt excellent — courses if there 's no incentive for them to use up large slices of their spare time in teaching the game . |
| 27 | Bethpage , New York-based Grumman Corp may be looking for computer-related acquisitions , but in the meantime , it is to use up some of its cash pile by spending up to $100m buying in its own shares . |
| 28 | The Sparc machines are expected to use up to 20 CPUs each and will start life as $150,000 to $200,000 boxes . |
| 29 | You can generate the dust by rubbing the Polychromos Pastels against fine sandpaper , a practical use for small remnant pieces that would otherwise be difficult to use up , or you can do as I do and spread the dust from very lightly applied pastel strokes , placed to allow a very deliberate development of the effect over a localised area . |
| 30 | They do n't have enough oxygen because you just ca n't breathe fast enough to use up that oxygen in that tremendous burst of power . |