Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] up [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Biologists may be able to determine the shape of molecules made up of amino acid chains , thereby predicting the effect of drugs before such drugs even exist . |
| 2 | From the twelfth dynasty one may cite a necklace or girdle made up of electrum cowries ( Plate C ) with beads of lapis lazuli , carnelian , amethyst and electrum , said to have come from Thebes , or again one made up of gold cowries from Dashur , linked with the mother-goddess Hathor . |
| 3 | Late one night she forgets to turn off the gas after heating up some left-over mutton vindaloo , and a loud explosion rocks the mansion as Tracey 's beautiful designer kitchen goes up in smoke . |
| 4 | Street verité rubs up against fashion , and interleaved among some impressively fat advertising are columns of tittle-tattle , industry news and those inevitable lists . |
| 5 | But as far as this security expert is concerned , unless Oxford University tightens up on security , and fast , more of its treasures will inevitably be stolen . |
| 6 | TRAINER John Gosden made up for Brier Creek 's narrow Ebor defeat when Badawi took the Andy Capp Handicap at York yesterday , writes Carles Fawcus . |
| 7 | It was an unsatisfactory relationship , but their meetings made up for infrequency by their intensity . |
| 8 | Behind him the noise was changing , rising , as the fight wound up to pressure . |
| 9 | LEFT Images of Uranus built up from information sent back in 1986 by Voyager 2 ; the image on the right is in false colour and extreme contrast enhancement to show details of Uranus 's polar regions . |
| 10 | The Chairman wound up to applause . |
| 11 | Four or five storeys high , they tottered against each other , held up only by the shells of neighbouring structures , their innards shrivelled up by fire , a real Dresden of a street . |
| 12 | Whitlock caught up with Mobuto but remained discreetly in the background while he finished talking to the Chief of Protocol . |
| 13 | One of the most exciting developments in recent years has been the degree of convergence between models of visual function built up by computer scientists trying to figure out how to build machines that can see and physiologists trying to work out what different parts of the visual system do . |
| 14 | CO 2 is also produced in huge amounts by burning fossil fuels — which of course are organic molecules built up by photosynthesis millions of years in the past . |
| 15 | Special care was used to avoid RNAse contamination ( baked glassware , solutions made up in water treated with diethylpyrocarbonate ) . |
| 16 | An article in a recent issue of the British Medical Journal , pointed out that babies in fluoridated areas who drink dried milk formulae made up with water containing 1 ppm fluoride , are ingesting up to 100 times the amount of fluoride they would obtain from mother 's milk ( vol 283. p 76 ) . |
| 17 | She had a white star , half-covered by a rough forelock , her ears pricked up with fear . |
| 18 | The leadership will be decided by an electoral college made up of trade unions , MPs and constituency parties . |
| 19 | Eventually they divided this process into sixty-four stages ; In the Book of Changes each stage is represented by a hexagram — a six-line figure made up of whole and broken lines . |
| 20 | " The Meeting Considering the great Exertions of the Legislature in Surpressing the Distilling of Spirits & the great revenue given up by Ministry for the purpose of providing a sufficiency of Grain for the use of the nation , which in many parts is threaten 'd with a Famine , and Considering that great Exertions have already been made in surpressing the Distilling in this Island , This Meeting unanimously Resolve Individually and Collectively to exert themselves in putting a total stop to the said Illegal Practices … " |
| 21 | Counting the cost of a fire which has brought his business to a standstill and caused ten years of research to go up in smoke . |
| 22 | The vast constructions built up on slave labour by the Ancient Egyptians or Romans were therefore not possible in Romanesque Europe . |
| 23 | Thus the assembly rules of the mind build up during evolution , element by element . |
| 24 | Steven looks up from call to opposite number in Coventry . |
| 25 | Because there is pressure on departments in humanistic subjects to appear up to date and efficient , it is much easier to persuade funding bodies to give money for computers and software than to buy manuscripts , rare books , or second and third copies of frequently used library texts . |
| 26 | that 's why Richard phoned up before Christmas said do I want to go round to his place |
| 27 | Then Jilly cast off her chadour and sang , a plaintive rendering of ‘ The Winter of Seventy-Nine ’ , and suddenly , as happens on these occasions , the knockabout mood changed , people stopped laughing , tears stood in eyes , as Jilly 's harsh , grating flat voice lamented the year and deplored the future , as her white , beaky , angry face gazed fiercely at the audience , as the confined energy of months swelled up in self-pity around the room , orchestrated by Jilly 's incantation : |
| 28 | The TRAX system was developed by the ISMA in an attempt to provide up to date information on transactions ( which are supposed to be reported in 30 minutes ) to allow matching inconsistencies to be resolved quickly . |
| 29 | ‘ Peggy ’ James , the proprietor , a heavily built man and had a wooden leg — hence his nickname — but he was remarkably speedy to provide quick service when cars drew up for petrol from his one , hand-operated pump . |
| 30 | As the car drew up in front of the Lodge with a crunch of gravel , Detective Sergeant Allen strode out to meet them . |