Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile the main path route goes up the valley until sea reappears ( where these two routes merge ) . |
| 2 | Twice I forked out for cable car rides up the Stock Mountain where there are more langlauf tracks and ample space to make your own . |
| 3 | Such an approach 's insistence on dealing with non-traditional , non-objective methods points up the ambiguities which characterize psychological methods , in a persistent and useful way . |
| 4 | Moving like the late Dick Emery in his ‘ Ooh , you are awful ’ guise , Standerline eats up the role of the camp gay explaining his troubled yet amusing life in brisk gag-heavy declarations . |
| 5 | The optimised X-Winserver speeds up the performance of X-Windows : DOS and Windows emulation facilities have been built into the kernel . |
| 6 | Then I hear a muffled cry of alarm , but a rush of wind breaks up the information to my ears . |
| 7 | Approval will partly depend on whether or not the UK Department of Trade & Industry opens up the market for international simple resale to the US . |
| 8 | But some believe the DoH has stopped short of adequate advice , while others believe the new guidance opens up the system to abuse . |
| 9 | In words like ‘ potato ’ , ‘ tomato ’ , ‘ canary ’ , ‘ perhaps ’ , ‘ today ’ , the vowel in the first syllable may disappear ; the aspiration of the initial plosive takes up the whole of the middle portion of the syllable , resulting in these pronunciations ( where indicates aspiration ) : ; ; ; ; |
| 10 | Administrative support posts are becoming increasingly attractive to men and this broader approach to the core subjects opens up the market of applicants to both sexes who wish to work as part of the executive office management team . |
| 11 | This chapter takes up the theme of industrial determination introduced in relation to the Northern Region in Chapter 3 . |
| 12 | In the brief soliloquy following Clarence 's exit Richard keeps up the equivocation : ‘ I will shortly send thy soul to heaven , /If heaven will take the present at our hands ’ ( 119 — 20 ) . |
| 13 | The monitor picks up the amount of ultraviolet or UV rays coming from the sun . |
| 14 | The minibus picks up the Inspirals party outside the hotel in Japantown , San Francisco at 10.30 the next morning , a Sunday . |
| 15 | Vivian de Sola Pinto sums up the qualities required of this kind of professional scholar as a capacity for " exact scholarship " , an extensive " knowledge " of language and literature , and — if possible — " the most perfect taste and tact " . |
| 16 | Main picture : The uncluttered bedroom sums up the atmosphere of the house |
| 17 | The first section of this chapter sums up the differences which have emerged between legacies and trusts in the course of this book , and goes on to consider whether or how far or in what sense classical law can be said to have reached a fusion of legacy and trust . |
| 18 | The game is a vertically scrolling shoot-'em-up where your aircraft zooms up the screen to greet the enemy troops zooming down to kill you ( surprise , surprise ) . |
| 19 | This process provides the manufacturer with more of a profit because the bacon soaks up the salt and water which increases its weight . |
| 20 | Because of the disposition and the shape of Walter 's continuous check in relation to the wrestplank , the treble end of the check would not pass under the wrestplank as the action slides up the ramps at the back if the ends of the check batten were rigidly fixed to the action frame . |
| 21 | Sir John Rimmer digs up the Presley hoard . |
| 22 | Tenderly : A 1953 jam session takes up the whole of one side . |
| 23 | The loss of McCoist opens up the possibility of Jess playing his first full international from the start , having been used as a substitute against Italy . |
| 24 | The physical stuff of the universe wraps up the earth with knowledge and communication , and the earth shrinks , and those who do not partake of the great secret growth are eliminated and shrivel away under the physical stuff that is knowledge and communication and wraps the earth with love , for nothing less than symbiosis will do . |
| 25 | The new act picks up the Warnock comments that really the majority of children can probably be erm accommodated in ordinary schools , but there will always be a need for special schools , and in fact they do mention some proportions . |
| 26 | The NHS picks up the tab , ’ he says . |
| 27 | Constantine picks up the thread . |
| 28 | Ken McRobb rounds up the rest of the World Cup news . |
| 29 | This inelegant but graphic import from American business vocabulary sums up the relevance of finance to the building surveying practice . |
| 30 | With this paragraph in the preface to Newsletter Writing and Production Handbook for the Spirited Journalist , editor Alfonso B Deza sums up the philosophy of the handbook . |