Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sometimes stand there in the darkness for a moment , watching them , putting off the moment when I walk up the five tessellated steps to the front door . |
| 2 | For my part , I sometimes think of the film Psycho as I walk up the bleaker staircases to people 's homes in Hackney . |
| 3 | I run up the open wooden steps to the office to ask the price of a self-catering suite . |
| 4 | I pick up some of the papers that have escaped from their boxes , pages of unidentified figures that are meaningless in their isolation , and use them as a duster to clean the top of a solidly filled Quaker Oats box and make a chair for myself Then I open up the next nearest box , labelled Squeez-Ee Washing-up Liquid . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm hopeless with the till — I ring up the same price for everything and I 'm always worried a keen-eyed viewer will spot it ! ’ |
| 6 | Come and see the sorcerer 's kitchen where I brew up the grotesque potions that make me a legend here . ’ |
| 7 | To the extent that the government , the major issuer of those assets which make up the private sector 's net worth , does not alter its spending and taxation policies in response to a rising real value of its outstanding liabilities , aggregate spending will rise as the price level falls . |
| 8 | And third , the various laws which make up the Mosaic Code as part of God 's covenant with the Hebrew nation , set the framework for a system of political economy . |
| 9 | Microsoft 's latest scheme to increase its market share in the Macintosh software arena is a trade-in deal which nets a customer the four Microsoft applications which make up the integrated Microsoft Office pack for less than the price of just one of those applications . |
| 10 | A further aspect of the new system , which has yet to be fully exploited by centres , is that the Higher National Units which make up the new courses can be taken individually by candidates , rather than in complete courses . |
| 11 | From the late 18th century , the city expanded to the north through a planned series of fine neo-classical streets and squares , which make up the New Town . |
| 12 | In a comparable way , our concept of the individual must be seen as the conjuncture of the various practices which make up the complex whole . |
| 13 | One can forget for a while the rigours faced everyday and appreciate wholeheartedly the kind of escapism that lies at the root of ‘ The Passionate Shepherd to his love ’ and ‘ The Garden ’ and all other poems which make up the pastoral garden . |
| 14 | There seem also to be other compositional differences , such as in the silicates which make up the greater part of both planets . |
| 15 | One of the principle reasons for the development of anti-school attitudes amongst these young people is the separation and ranking of students according to a multiple set of criteria which make up the normative , academically oriented value system of the school . |
| 16 | This can not be done by restricting attention to its formal properties , the relations and regularities which make up the internal mechanism of the device . |
| 17 | More recent biochemical studies demonstrate that many more inorganic elements occur in the body than those which make up the twelve tissue salts . |
| 18 | More important , the big volcanoes which make up the Hawaiian Islands all seem at first sight to have central vents — they are mountains thousands of metres high , with craters right at the top . |
| 19 | Cray Research Inc has a new disk array based on its DA-60 and DA-62 arrays and a new DCA-3 channel adaptor , providing the first RAID level 3 capability from Cray and a four-fold increase in data transfer rate ; it also cut prices on its DD-60 and DD-62 disk drives , which make up the DA-60 and DA-62 arrays , by 20% and 28% respectively ; DA-60 prices now begin at $190,000 and DA-62 prices begin at $120,000 ; the DCA-3 channel adaptor is based on the chip technology used in the Y-MP C90 supercomputer ; it 's $50,000 . |
| 20 | In system jargon , the working world is one sub-system within a complete set of sub-systems which make up the total environment or life space of the individual . |
| 21 | Basalts are the rocks which are formed at mid-ocean ridges , and which make up the entire oceanic crust . |
| 22 | To address the fragmentation issue , general SVQs will also feature an additional assessment , probably taken towards the end of the course , which will require the candidate to demonstrate that he/she can pull together the work across all of the modules which make up the general SVQ . |
| 23 | Grammatical rules are seen as existing independently of the child , and changes in the child 's language in the direction of conventional syntax and morphology are seen as indicative of the child acquiring the rules which make up the grammatical system . |
| 24 | These trends and interrelationships can be illustrated most effectively by reference to the zone level of the Functional Regions framework , particularly the contrast between the Cores and Rings which make up the Daily Urban Systems of the 228 Functional Regions in Britain . |
| 25 | It is with understanding linguistic factors in relation to the concrete problems and activities which make up the daily reality of the school : what children need to learn , how they learn and what difficulties they experience . |
| 26 | On Monday morning we were greeted by the view of Bequia , one of 32 islands which make up the wonderful Grenadines . |
| 27 | As we have seen , the various ideological state apparatuses of a society are allotted the formidable task of constituting individual subjects , who then reproduce the practices which make up the structured totality of society . |
| 28 | Not only might such a diagram act as a checklist of the types of land use to look for in a study of any area , but it may also serve to prompt questions about the working of the basic agricultural economic units which make up the English landscape . |
| 29 | The Congress of People 's Deputies voted overwhelmingly in favour of renaming the Russian Federation ‘ Russia ’ , but within minutes members from the republics which make up the huge state were demanding restoration of the word ‘ federation ’ . |
| 30 | The ingredients which make up the special stew are a closely kept secret and vary from chef to chef . |