Example sentences of "up more " in BNC.
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| 1 | He badly wants to complete the task and continues hoping to pick up more lift on the way . |
| 2 | Time is always well spent when practising steep turns : not the classroom type where you pick up more speed and then go into the turn , but the sort you might use for thermalling . |
| 3 | ‘ And except for ministers , of course — we can not do without them ; or schoolmasters — the Lord Lieutenants will need them to draw up more lists and sign away more lives when the six thousand have bled and died in France , or Spain , or India . ’ |
| 4 | In the 1970s money just was not available to smarten up more than a handful of Provincial stations . |
| 5 | Douglas , the leading US maker of pan washers for the bakery trade , provides a profitable US base and the chance to undercut the market by setting up more cost effective production facilities based on Lincat 's UK operations . |
| 6 | However , many travellers have set up more fixed camps around the city , which does not have an official site . |
| 7 | White forces had intended to blow up more railway lines and workshops . |
| 8 | If you exercise more , you use up more of the energy from your food , so reducing your chances of putting on any additional weight . |
| 9 | ( This means that it takes up more hospital space than any other single illness . ) |
| 10 | Office rents have soared in London over the past couple of years but political factors are also significant as government departments make up more than a quarter of moves . |
| 11 | A merger between Chase Manhattan and its New York neighbour , Chemical Bank , could free up more money than the two banks ' combined net profit over the past five years . |
| 12 | Remembering he did n't like grapes , she had lined up more exotic things like dates , kumquats and some out-of-season strawberries . |
| 13 | In fact they 're mad keen to fix up more visits to the BEF by ENSA parties . |
| 14 | None of the efforts of the Communist Party amounted to anything of a significant revolutionary threat about the General Strike and it was Winston Churchill , editing the Britain Gazette for the government , who drummed up more revolutionary potential than really existed . |
| 15 | He searched deeper , trying to pull up more substantial impressions to the choppy surface . |
| 16 | It should also drum up more work for a profession that has been badly hit by the recession . |
| 17 | In the southern cone countries of Argentina , Chile and Uruguay , which are highly urbanised and have advanced industrial complexes , the formal proletariat makes up more than half the EAP . |
| 18 | Compared with Sizewell , where neither the local district or county council put up more than minor objections , this was a totally different situation . |
| 19 | Intermediate wringing during the drying stage speeds up the process , as mop absorption rates vary in that the more water a mop holds the slower it picks up more water . |
| 20 | The only alternative , says Professor Durnin , is to try to burn up more energy by being physically active . |
| 21 | Even if you were five behind with five to go with Seve , he still thought he could win , and there 's nothing pumps a caddie up more than a guy who thinks like that . |
| 22 | A three year old is comparatively weak and easy to get to the bottom of , whereas a four or five year old will be able to put up more of a resistance ( if that is in his nature ) . |
| 23 | As the magma approached the surface , the pressure on it would decrease , and the gas in it would expand ; as the gas expanded it would take up more room , and this in turn would force the whole mass to rise faster and higher up the vent . |
| 24 | Johnny Boy Gomes was the July pin-up on my surfing calendar back in Cambridge , and now he was picking up more barrels than a beer-truck . |
| 25 | Very few people will have the time and desire to follow up more than a small number of the leads that are referenced ; and those who do will usually be aware of the older literature , in any case . |
| 26 | These changes can be seen as elements of a programme intended to open up more aspects of public sector provision to the market and to undermine the powers of state bureaucracy , particularly as highlighted by exponents of ‘ public choice theory ’ . |
| 27 | They would include : opportunities for students to see or experience equipment or processes which are not on offer within the institution ; the chance for a student to sample a possible future job or career ; the opportunity to learn something ( not much ) of the lives led in employment by their neighbours , their parents or their peer-group , so that they may grow up more understanding and more tolerant ( this rather pious hope may in fact be quite unjustified , they may have confirmed or developed disdain or envy for others ) ; a good student may catch the eye of an employer looking for a later recruit ; absence may lend enchantment to the view of the college and the students may return from work-experience reassured about their choice of education ; students may be motivated to work hard at college by the prospect of either securing a job like the one they have seen or tried , or by the determination to avoid a similar fate ; all these outcomes may be little more predictable than the consequences of going to the zoo for a visit . |
| 28 | He carried on presenting dancers in an amateur capacity , but it was an activity that was taking up more time than he could afford . |
| 29 | Naively , we would expect many more ordinary quasars , because there is only a small chance of a beam pointing straight at us : but the calculation must also consider the fact that BL Lac objects would on average appear to be brighter than other quasars ( because the doppler effect brightens a beam coming towards us ) , and so we would tend to pick up more of them . |
| 30 | Railways seem to have thrown up more than their fair share of curiosities . |