Example sentences of "[verb] up the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | There are many repeating features in this book , and one such is Dickens ' amazing ability to conjure up the most absurd but believable characters . |
| 2 | If programmes aiming to pick up directly beamed contact' messages from other worlds are starved of funding , what possibility is there of anyone picking up the incredibly faint traces of extraterrestrial radio leakage ? |
| 3 | Apart from that , life had taught her to pry because sometimes doing so turned up the most surprising things . |
| 4 | It was reported on Jan. 8 that former federal judge Frederick B. Lacy , the court-appointed independent administrator assigned to clean up the notoriously corrupt Teamsters union ( International Brotherhood of Teamsters , Chauffeurs , Warehousemen and Helpers of America ) , had banned one of the union 's vice-presidents , T. R. " Teddy " Cozza , for having knowingly associated with figures involved in organized crime . |
| 5 | In the modern period radical elite theorists have extended the argument to explain how a politically neutered Parliament , normally controlled by a majority party leadership , functions to disguise or dress up the constitutionally uncontrolled concentration of power within the executive branch in Britain . |
| 6 | It is impossible to guarantee that anyone you invited will turn up , so you could try to guard against wasting your time and money by sending courtesy cars to pick up the more important people . |
| 7 | Until a moment of madness by Bruce , the United stand-in captain , Alex Ferguson 's side appeared likely to open up the most significant lead in this topsy turvy title race . |
| 8 | They forced several corners and looked for the height of Simon White and Steve Harris to open up the sometimes nervous ‘ Mill defence . |
| 9 | However , herbs have always been used to pep up the more blandly-flavoured foods such as fish , vegetables and cereals . |
| 10 | What I have always said is that way you set up supervision behind the programme is the most crucial , so therefore if I can sit down and help them to set up the most strenuous type of supervision to go along with the equipment , then they feel safe and the community feel safer that none of them will go out and commit another crime . |
| 11 | Peter Rawlins , having failed in his mission to set up the stubbornly impracticable Taurus computer trading system , has done what used to be called the honourable thing . |
| 12 | The person who gets on with the job instead of wasting time in chatter may show up the less zealous and cause the chatterers to feel vaguely guilty , which of course they wo n't like . |
| 13 | Under this , the EPA is responsible for cleaning up the most contaminated sites and then recovering the cost from the bodies held responsible for the contamination . |
| 14 | A government-commissioned report has calculated the cost of cleaning up the severely polluted industrial areas of the former East Germany at 17.8 billion deutschmarks . |
| 15 | It 's a curious superstition , the universal instinct to cover up the recently dead . |
| 16 | And our survey shows up the most important variation — the overall costs to you , the customer . |
| 17 | She advises her clients to involve the users in producing a list of the problems they are expecting an accounting system to solve , in addition to drawing up the more traditional features ‘ hit-list ’ . |
| 18 | right , you go upstairs , pick up the most expensive article they 've got and then you go downstairs to the customer relations department and say I bought this article yesterday and say , and , and I 'm afraid |
| 19 | The hairs on its furry body are covered with microscopic hooks which pick up the slightly sticky pollen grains as the bee busies around the flower . |
| 20 | The child was observed through a one-way screen to see whether he or she would resist or give in to temptation ( i.e. pick up the more attractive , but forbidden , toy ) . |
| 21 | For a great many others , however , particularly those who made up the largely illiterate and religiously unsophisticated rural masses , it brought insufficient comfort and left them feeling powerless in the face of disaster . |
| 22 | Built in 1864 — 71 , Thoresby was one of the famous Nottinghamshire ‘ Dukeries ’ that 100 years ago made up the most illustrious group of houses in Britain . |
| 23 | RIXI MARKUS , who has died aged 81 , was the first woman in the world to become a bridge grandmaster , and with the late Fritzi Gordon made up the most formidable women 's bridge partnership in the world . |
| 24 | The woodlands of perhaps the greatest historic interest are those which make up the very extensive Bardney Forest . |
| 25 | The package tour is particularly appropriate to the personality traits of compliance and sociability which make up the typically British temperament . |
| 26 | Hindu society is predominantly a patrifocal society , and it is usually the men who make up the socially dominant group . |
| 27 | In analysing the ways in which informal care in the context of an existing familial relationship is both more than and less than personal assistance , she opens up the rather sterile debate about ‘ burden ’ , ‘ dependency ’ and residential care . |
| 28 | Roy Hattersley 's simultaneous resignation as deputy leader also opens up the increasingly sterile debate on constitutional reform . |
| 29 | As they set up the now empty suit with its back to the door , half slumped over a control panel , he settled down behind the curtained entrance of the showers . |
| 30 | Most hotels and similar venues have tracking spotlights and if you have plenty of set-up time , you should be able to cheer up the most basic hotel meeting room . |