Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] up a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roux and Co cook up a treat at Food Show . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Animals make up a category of painting with an uneven reputation , though the theme is one of obvious importance and interest in sculpture . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | … 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The Scottish nobles set up a Regency Council with control of Margaret 's baby sons , one of whom , Alexander , Duke of Ross , dies soon after his mother 's sudden departure for England . |
| 10 | The following year a further scheme of the Charity Commissioners set up an education system which led to that enjoyed today . |
| 11 | We did not have an echo chamber at CBR , so when Lance Sieveking required an echo effect our engineers set up a microphone in the gentlemen 's washroom where the reverberation off tiled walls and floor gave the desired effect . |
| 12 | The bream pick up a bait by simply sucking it to the edge of their lips , and then move away from the main shoal to consume it . |
| 13 | The set of three translational degrees of freedom for each of a set of N atoms is modified when the atoms make up a molecule . |
| 14 | Impatient of the slow progress made through the ‘ official channels ’ local lawyers and community workers set up a law centre in North Kensington in 1970 . |
| 15 | In Gambia in the mid '80's , a number of well-known aid agencies and charities set up a rice production project . |
| 16 | Police patrolled the streets and troops set up a road block and checked all vehicles entering or leaving . |
| 17 | In another move to improve services for parents , principal child protection officer Evelyn Joseph is helping local voluntary organisations set up an advocacy project for black parents who come into contact with the child protection team . |
| 18 | Based upon the outcome of your discussions draw up a worksheet and enter the above transactions . |
| 19 | These assumptions make up a set of inter-related hypotheses about the processes and criteria of class membership . |
| 20 | Customers pick up a basket and walk around the store , selecting the goods they require . |
| 21 | Labour 's Coun. Bill Dixon wanted signs advising weekend shoppers about the changes put up a week before the work starts . |
| 22 | Riva hold up a hand . |
| 23 | When learners look up a word or phrase they need to know what it means , but they also need to know how to use it . |
| 24 | ‘ But we can not back down every time a group of tenants get up a petition against another tenant . |
| 25 | Each year business managers draw up a budget and suggest a series of financial targets . |
| 26 | ‘ Housing problems take up a lot of the time in prison , ’ he said . |
| 27 | During a pause between Mice , I noticed a poorly-dressed woman pick up a twenty-pound note in surprise . |
| 28 | As for the new US system of having a laundry pick up a bucket each day — the worst is over by the time you have put the diaper in the bucket . |
| 29 | We do n't provide formal dinghy instruction , but novices pick up a lot just by sailing out and back when the winds are light . |
| 30 | We do n't provide formal instruction , but novices pick up a lot by sailing out and back in light winds . |