Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have any views pick up the phone and call me now . |
| 2 | When I do that , it 's like summat inside of me is pulled out and streaks back up the street , under all the lights , right round the corner to where I ca n't see . |
| 3 | Sir [ James ] Stephen added : ‘ The effect of adopting this definition would be to include under one description all the cognate offences which at present make up the crime of theft . |
| 4 | Roux and Co cook up a treat at Food Show . |
| 5 | What Teller hopes the West will do will be to develop its inter-dependence , eradicate secrecy between its constituent parts so the defence and the knowledge thereto is shared , and behind its nuclear shield build up a society that will prove the point about the superiority of its system . |
| 6 | Science is a collective enterprise ; over time , researchers build up a body of wisdom which tells them which are the important variables to include when modelling a particular process , and which must be controlled . |
| 7 | Small-scale basalt eruptions can fill valleys and in some cases over-top interfluves : but large-scale flood basalts can completely bury a pre-existing topography as great numbers of superimposed individual flows build up a basalt plateau . |
| 8 | Of the relatively small amount of CDs issued in other currencies , yen and ECU make up the bulk . |
| 9 | Animals make up a category of painting with an uneven reputation , though the theme is one of obvious importance and interest in sculpture . |
| 10 | Kids eat up the money . ’ |
| 11 | The amp 's master volume pot , headphone socket and mains switch make up the remainder of front panel controls . |
| 12 | The sensors pick up the change which is then fed back directly to alter the temperature or some other variable . |
| 13 | An aid worker in Jordanian refugee camps ca n't get a TV crew from the West interested in tens of thousands of people from the ‘ Third World ’ who are about to die from starvation — all the crews are off watching Richard Branson pick up a couple of hundred westerners in one of his Virgin Jumbo Jets . |
| 14 | The snakes and the tardy remedy make up the entirety of God 's response . |
| 15 | … with GCSE we 're plumping for having an external examiner to come into school , because the school years ago did a Mode 3 CSE , where all the kids put up an exhibition . |
| 16 | It seems necessary to conclude that in his view the words set up no trust . |
| 17 | The words set up an echo in Lorton 's mind : he remembered Sue 's death , and the doctor saying , She ca n't tell us what the problem was now , Mr Lorton . |
| 18 | When it had gone she turned to watch the white waves roll up the beach then roll back . |
| 19 | Chekov 's melodramatic last words sum up the film quite neatly : ‘ Well I guess this is goodbye ! ’ |
| 20 | Alcohol-soaked cherries sum up the bouquet of this unusual Dornfelder . |
| 21 | Therefore , these two speeches sum up the difference between Brutus and Cassius : Brutus works unselfishly and nobly for the good of the people of Rome , disregarding personal cost ( for it did cost Brutus a lot to kill Caesar ) , while Cassius is jealous of Caesar 's great power and begins the conspiracy with hopes of gaining more prestige and power for himself . |
| 22 | Transvaal turn up the heat |
| 23 | As the Revenue only allow a 10% mark up the tax gains can not exceed 1.5% of the turnover put through the company . |
| 24 | A full remission was maintained by avoidance of dairy products but in long term follow up the sensitivity was not persistent . |
| 25 | The Chandleresque tones on the promotional tape take up the tale : ‘ … downtown Cheltenham , gee , what a place . ’ |
| 26 | Augmented by informal photographs , the contemporary words conjure up the feel of life in the 1930s , when cricket seems somehow to have been more wholesome and felicitous . |
| 27 | The beaters stir up the water with enough force to loosen the berries which float to the surface forming brilliant , crimson lakes . |
| 28 | The voice possesses neither sufficient depth nor weight , and the technique is often found wanting — literally hundreds of interfering aspirates break up the continuity between sound and text . |
| 29 | Some 126 companies make up the membership of the BSIA . |
| 30 | The landscape manager faces major practical difficulties due to lack of basic information , including the extent and location of the individual elements of land cover ( woodlands , moorlands , farmland , etc ) or the way in which these elements make up the landscape . |