Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | Ships flying the Greek flag make up the world 's third-biggest merchant fleet , after Liberia 's and Panama 's ( having recently beaten an uppity Japan back into fourth place ) , and account for 40% of the European Community 's total tonnage . |
| 33 | In Guyana 's interior , forest-dwelling Indians make up the majority of the population . |
| 34 | Only by raising loans in New York and Paris could the Bank of England prop up the pound ; but foreign bankers were unwilling to risk their money unless the British Government balanced its budget . |
| 35 | Note that although the actions of the mother , father and child might well have been part of one connected incident , the cuts to the first shot of the older child and to the shot of the father getting to his feet open up the possibility that the actions could in fact have been parts of separate but similar incidents which took place over a very much longer span of time ; the shot of the father could well have been contrived specially , with the help of a little direction from the cameraman in between shots . |
| 36 | When the archeaologists dig up the ruins in France at the turn of the next millennium , they may well be confused about what was going on in our time . |
| 37 | On Sulawesi , these lizards dig up the eggs of the increasingly rare maleo , a bird which buries its egg in the hot sand to hatch out . |
| 38 | Nothing happened until , quite independently , a group of enthusiasts set up the Folly Fellowship in 1988 . |
| 39 | The companies set up the Volta Aluminium Company ( VALCO ) in 1959 . |
| 40 | Twenty green-minded companies set up the network with the aim of raising awareness of environmental issues . |
| 41 | Hadleigh 's winner came eight minutes before the end when Keys set up the chance for Smith to score his second with a shot on the run . |
| 42 | There is a little poem by Ogden Nash from which a couple of ( long ) lines sum up the danger excellently . |
| 43 | The sun stirs up the winds ; the winds suck up the swells ; the swells pump out waves that trip up against the jutting kerbs of the land . |
| 44 | ‘ I want to defend my European and Commonwealth titles and win the World Championships because every time we are successful , more youngsters take up the sport . |
| 45 | These roads open up the rainforest to waves of settlers who move into the forests and clear even more land by fire . |
| 46 | The different definitions open up the possibility of divergent interpretations . |
| 47 | The Fundació 's maintenance costs eat up the lion 's share of government subsidy , and as the programme is expanded the directors hope to cultivate funds for the exhibition and education programmes from sponsorship and patronage . |
| 48 | ‘ operations whose implications bring up the question of a girl 's right to privacy about her sexual life . |
| 49 | Small-scale hydropower projects and electricity generated from waste make up the majority of the schemes which have received approval . |
| 50 | The bag is difficult to get a hold on , but eventually he manages to secure a line to it and troops back up the road to the waiting vehicles . |
| 51 | I just said to my hubby this morning , I said , ‘ The sooner its the Sixth of January and we 've got a they decorations back up the loft and poked all they clogged-up pine needles out the Hoover tube with a Knitting needle and its back to auld claes and parritch the better pleased I 'll be . ’ |
| 52 | The police driver shot Jamie a look of enquiry which he missed , occupied as he was with guiding Miss Williams back up the hill . |
| 53 | The kids helped me pile up the slabs and we ‘ borrowed ’ a barrow from the house-renovators next door to transport the broken humps of concrete , via some wobbly ramps , to a spoil heap up the garden . |
| 54 | The rural women often become tired of their hard lives in the fields and over the years save up the proceeds from the goods they sell at market . |
| 55 | From your time sheet covering three typical days add up the amount of time you 've spent on all these activities/jobs . |
| 56 | To minimise potential bias , the study investigators set up the ventilators but were not involved in the clinical management of patients . |
| 57 | " Gloppo and his pal discover the joys of oral sex , the Freudians blow up the world , but that was going to happen anyway , and our two heroes live comparatively happily ever after . " |
| 58 | Domestic Workers Keep up the Pressure |
| 59 | If the Mujahideen divide up the country among themselves it is likely that the big divide would be along these mountains , which would then become the new division between Central Asia and the Indian sub-continent . |
| 60 | As officials move up the hierarchy they may be more involved in policy advice rather than managing budgets or people . |