Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A LAW allowing the courts to lock up child criminals as young as 12 has been given the go-ahead by Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke . |
| 2 | As a snow crystal grows in free fall , the angular deviation within the molecules sets up stresses and the hexagon will not close completely . |
| 3 | He kicked his horse into a trot and the hooves kicked up sparks from the cobbles . |
| 4 | When the magistrate and his party from Burford reached the encampment , the militiamen took up positions virtually surrounding the celebrating gipsies . |
| 5 | Everyone agreed that the loss of eyesight was a consequence of the animals taking up residence in an environment with no light , but the Lamarckians argued that the inherited effects of disuse provided a better explanation of the process than natural selection . |
| 6 | Then slowly his face clears as the pendulums pick up speed . |
| 7 | Stephenson also sends Durham Edition down for the Food Brokers Ferrero Rocher Handicap Chase but due to defections the weights go up 14lb and he is topweight with 11st 10lb . |
| 8 | Stephenson also sends Durham Edition down for the Food Brokers Ferrero Rocher Handicap Chase but due to defections the weights go up 14lb and he is topweight with 11st 10lb . |
| 9 | Adoption of Resolution 8 will authorise the directors to set up share option schemes for employees outside the UK . |
| 10 | It is selling its 20% stake in American cellular communications group McCaw to AT & T and there is speculation that it will use the proceeds to mop up Cellnet . |
| 11 | Stirling ordered the crews to take up formation and , bumping over the rough ground in the moonlight , they headed for the airfield . |
| 12 | But the Labour government fell in October 1951 and the Conservatives took up office . |
| 13 | Two of the Kamalians scooped up Skorpions . |
| 14 | All the majors and two of the mini-majors set up production subsidiaries in London . |
| 15 | The Republicans put up candidates in about half the constituencies and their overall share of the vote stayed low at 2.3 per cent . |
| 16 | The managers built up portfolios which enabled them to demonstrate competence in ten specific areas from their day to day work . |
| 17 | The males set up territories which they will defend vigorously against others of their own kind , and fights to the death have occasionally been witnessed . |
| 18 | Either the afternoons are as endless as those in old folks ' homes , which prompt the matrons to pin up Reality Orientation charts ( ’ When is your birthday ? |
| 19 | Meanwhile children bring outgrown favourites … hoping , like the writers to step up Oxfam 's sales of second hand books . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The screws made up promises , like if we took the barricade down they 'd leave us alone , they would n't punish us . |
| 22 | Mrs Burrows and the sisters bought up remnants of material at the sales and " sewed and sewed " to get Eva ready . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | This story had been used extensively by the Americans to drum up support against Gadaffi in the tame sections of the Western media even though they knew it was untrue . |
| 25 | The bullets swept up cloud material through the bow shocks on their leading faces , producing the iron and oxygen emission behind the shocks . |
| 26 | It would bring joy to millions of people if the Royals gave up bloodsports . |
| 27 | Mr Miller uses the buses to pick up medication from Loftus for his heart condition . |
| 28 | The numerical imbalance was not too great , even with the large Greek contingent : the Persians swept up Greeks and Egyptians into a small island in the Nile Delta called Prosopitis . |
| 29 | But the key technological advance that has allowed the Soviets to speed up construction is the automation of welding . |
| 30 | People nicked the records and left the mags clogging up WH Smith 's shelves . |