Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] up [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , as Mr Fontana points out , singers ' stipends make up only 19% of opera-house budgets . |
| 2 | First , the firm is eager to expand its data-transmission services , which at present make up just 5% of total sales ; by 2000 it hopes that will have risen to around 20% . |
| 3 | Below the cheek the head tapers down and is rounded off for the lower jaw ; the mouth finishes up about 2¼in wide . |
| 4 | MICROVITEC PICKS UP WORLDWIDE IBM OEM ALPHAWINDOW PACT |
| 5 | Function words take up only 4% of the vocabulary , or about 30% if weighted by frequency , yet they are accountable for almost 50% of the errors . ’ |
| 6 | Figure 12 , below , shows that of the post-1976 items issued , whose method of acquisition was know , 93% had come to the Library under copyright deposit legislation , with purchases and donations making up only 6% and 2 % of the total . |
| 7 | And this was what the Technology purchase was all about — although margins are low , operating costs make up only 10% of company revenues , so profits can and are made . |
| 8 | THE CURTAIN goes up tomorrow night on the show the bombers could n't close . |
| 9 | Well , you know , Donald came up here year after year and took a real tongue lashing and you did n't really put anything down there that could be criticized this year but you said we 're gon na fight . |
| 10 | Mick ( Yarm Piscatorials ) started on the groundbait feeder and maggot picking up mainly dace and a sprinkling of roach then , as the tide dropped , switched to the stickfloat down the edge to net the bulk of his winning haul . |
| 11 | The next day thousands of Syrian troops took up forward positions around Aoun 's 100-sq-km. enclave . |
| 12 | Birchwood 's Derrick Cooper picked up over £8,000 to move to 55th place in the Volvo Order of Merit when he shot 68–70–68–73 for a share of 15th place in the Dunhill Masters . |
| 13 | Microcomputing makes up almost 50% of revenues , point-of-sale terminals 29.8% , and terminals , 18.8% . |
| 14 | Although servicing the deficit takes up nearly 30% of government spending , fewer than 0.1% of Pakistanis pay direct taxes . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | THE sight of a disconsolate Kevin McKenzie trudging from the pitch and pointing an imaginary pistol to his head sums up perfectly Stirling County 's day at Goldenacre . |
| 17 | In 1982 oil made up about 60% of the Soviet Union 's hard currency income . |
| 18 | In-service training takes up much time and expense , items in short supply in schools and school library services . |
| 19 | Only Haynes and Logie put up much resistance and 154 all out , with conditions improving all the time , presented England with few problems ; had the situation been reversed , one knew that West Indies would have won by eight or nine wickets , but English fans were happy enough to have six still in hand . |
| 20 | Hmm , I doubt it somehow and then Derek put his in and then Paul parked up where Eileen was Paul was waiting to get out |
| 21 | Instead of having another bridesmaid , have a page boy and so the two little ones go up together page boy |
| 22 | Does your socks come up alright Ange ? |
| 23 | Conglomerate BET rose 4p to 260p as Normura forecast profits up nearly £50m to £320m and said the shares were oversold . |
| 24 | These two categories make up about 15% of the total UK population . |
| 25 | It lets you back up ( and restore ) whole disks or selected files and/or directories — including the option to back up only files that have modified since the last run . |