Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chef turns up the racing heat |
| 2 | The Mail keeps up the relentless post-election good news : ‘ Birds are nesting . |
| 3 | To lend naive party cheer , the young American DJ whacks up the dry ice machine which spurts more of its obnoxious fumes into the heart of the room . |
| 4 | Hill sums up the 1992 housing market in one word — ‘ weird ’ . |
| 5 | Hilton sums up the whole process as he has defined it in Book One through the two images of sin and Christ with a quotation from Galatians 4:19 : Scale 1 , then , maps the whole area of the contemplative life and shows it may be accessed through inner participation in the truth revealed at the Incarnation : Most of the book , however , is occupied with the effort to clarify the process by which the reformation to the likeness of Jesus in his manhood may be begun , the experience of this likeness in the reformed " " of the soul and how it leads to contemplation of the Godhead is not explored in any fullness although it is present as a stated goal . |
| 6 | Chanel sums up the new colour and shape of accessories . |
| 7 | If you prefer to mount a stalwart defence you can wait behind long lines of hand gunners , massed ranks of halberdiers and hold important positions with volley guns while your artillery softens up the advancing enemy . |
| 8 | Exhibition-train revenue makes up the final 4 per cent . |
| 9 | The plan clears up the legal wrangles set off by the federal government 's decision in 1988 to sue the state government over water quality in the Everglades , but leaves unclear many of the details of the clean-up . |
| 10 | And Isaiah takes up the same theme in the fifty fifth chapter . |
| 11 | The hall takes up the central bay through the two storeys ; the dining- and drawing-rooms are on either side . |
| 12 | Extensive use of the computer in project work opens up the further possibility of a computer-oriented career . |
| 13 | The surface of a warm , damp body takes up the wet-bulb temperature of the air around it . |
| 14 | Priddle takes up the poisoned chalice for PWRs |
| 15 | The microphone picks up the surrounding sounds and feeds them to the amplifier . |
| 16 | The embroidery-edged bed linen picks up the delicate decoration as does the appliqué bedcover , while the plain brown walls add warmth and lend a strong contrast . |
| 17 | The stark juxtaposition of these two statements sums up the whole dilemma facing arts teachers , and consequently illustrates the central issue I want to discuss in this chapter . |
| 18 | The fit between fact and theory is good , but again the conclusion strikes up the familiar refrain : ‘ the results are only marginally significant … |
| 19 | This business makes up the remaining 25% of group sales . |
| 20 | The availability of in vitro fertilization opens up the further possibility that the proembryo which is eventually implanted need not originate from an egg produced by the woman herself . |
| 21 | I believe that Bourdieu 's conceptual framework opens up the social-scientific study of postmodernism in several ways . |
| 22 | Such cropmarks occur because soil moisture deficiency in gravel subsoils shows up the earlier features . |
| 23 | Bruce Lee cleans up the white slave/narcotics market on an off-shore Chinese island , and he and co-star John Saxon polish off hundreds of Kung-fu experts . |
| 24 | This may be achieved where cobbling makes drivers aware of the presence of pedestrians , where a tree breaks up the straight line of the centre of the road or where narrowings make drivers proceed especially slowly and carefully . |
| 25 | Unlike Lukács ' insignificant event from which the universal is precariously drawn out through the narrative , Sartre 's singularity works synecdochally in a conventional antinomy with the universal , the relation between the two structured according to the familiar nineteenth-century model of organic growth or process in which each singular event makes up the whole while , as he puts it , ‘ the whole is entirely present in the part as its present meaning and as its destiny ’ . |
| 26 | Consistently good water quality and a stress-free environment builds up the natural resistance of your fish , so they can shrug off minor ailments . |
| 27 | Managing director , George Sneddon heads up the regional management team of 24 UK staff who are supported by 123 Omani , Indian and Sri Lankan staff and a labour force of 1500 men . |
| 28 | The choice theory picks up the libertarian strand , which insists that all state power must be legitimated by consent , whereas the ‘ harm to interests ’ theory taps the slender source of Millian liberalism to defend a broadening of the scope of contractual obligations . |
| 29 | McCrea sums up the Western code by his declaration that all his wants is to ‘ enter my house justified ’ while Scott is more easy-going and hence survives to mourn his partner in a world where a Westerner is more likely to be an unshaven brute played by Warren Oates than a white-hatted , true-hearted paladin . |
| 30 | Farber sums up the whole process : |