Example sentences of "[verb] up the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we examine their structure , we shall perceive the way in which the wishful purpose that is at work has mixed up the material of which they are built , has rearranged it and formed it into a new whole . |
| 2 | He hopes to drum up the support of sympathetic congressmen who blame the law for high fares . |
| 3 | Hope could picture himself comforting Mrs Crump , shoring up the memory of her husband , praising him , assessing him , recalling ‘ mots ’ , reporting favourable comments , and then in would come the daughter , dressed entirely in black , and he would say , would be forced to say no matter what the consequences were , that the child was like the man . |
| 4 | She knew where she had got the notion that he could buy up the whole of her street with the petty cash . |
| 5 | Dougal levered up the rectangle of hardwood . |
| 6 | It is recognized that any programme of improving information management will cost money , in the form of staff and equipment , but any money spent will result in opening up the wealth of our information resources to larger numbers of people . |
| 7 | She also delivered her own populist riposte , opening up the possibility of a referendum on the issue of the introduction of a single European currency . |
| 8 | These operate as discursive resources to be drawn upon and articulated in different combinations in particular contexts , thus constantly opening up the possibility of tension , inconsistency and contradiction within and between sites . |
| 9 | Blocked negotiations with the unions resumed at the end of January , opening up the possibility of extending the deadline for job losses to the end of 1994 . |
| 10 | A European Court of Justice ruling on July 21 was seen as opening up the possibility of EC citizens applying for social security benefits in the United Kingdom even though they lived outside the UK . |
| 11 | US scientists have successfully produced the first gene-altered wheat , opening up the possibility of the development of high-protein strains and ones resistant to drought and disease . |
| 12 | Here he studied under Otto Wallach , who was opening up the chemistry of terpenes natural products important as flavours and fragrances . |
| 13 | Identifying a discharge as ‘ polluting ’ is the first step in opening up the sequence of decisions to be made about modes of control . |
| 14 | Such international collaboration is now continuing to locate the gene itself , opening up the prospect of devising a test to find out which women are at risk of developing the disease . |
| 15 | ‘ It acknowledges the success of the JY team in opening up the world of current affairs for ordinary people . |
| 16 | On my first evening , my body still believing it was morning , I wandered up the maze of cobbled alleyways to the city 's most venerable quarter . |
| 17 | A twenty-five-foot wave flung itself at the canoe from an unexpected angle and before the crew could turn to absorb the blow , the Hokule'a rose up the face of the wave at forty-five degrees , and was capsized as it flew off the peak . |
| 18 | HM Inspectorate helped in various ways and Statistics Division of the Scottish Office Education Department drew up the sample of schools at short notice . |
| 19 | Upstairs in the nursery the baby is tearing up The Anatomy of Melancholy , and eating it page by page . |
| 20 | ‘ If you had to sum up the idea of Playboy it is anti-Puritanism , ’ said Hefner at the time . |
| 21 | Yet although the cherubic muse blowing its horn for the brave new world seemed to the Festival staff to sum up the kind of things they were trying to say about the EIF , there remained one potent snag . |
| 22 | If we attempt to sum up the character of these innovations , we must say that they are practical but unprincipled . |
| 23 | I call the subject ‘ Jesus — our pioneer ’ because that seems to sum up the thrust of the idea . |
| 24 | It is difficult to sum up the succession of kings and sub kings who schemed and killed their way to brief spells of power — eight of them in one century — or to keep in steady perspective the shifting boundaries and aspirations of petty earldoms and self-proclaimed kingdoms . |
| 25 | Once , after a long night spent putting up posters , Paul Simonon heated up the remainder of the flour and water paste on a rusty blade and ate it . |
| 26 | Simon did n't answer , just turned in his swivel chair and began lacing up the front of Kim 's basque while still giving me my instructions . |
| 27 | This is in addition to the normal purposes of cuts , such as keeping up the pace of the story , or giving emphasis to actions or reactions . |
| 28 | Kirov took a couple steps back , keeping up the look of rejection before allowing his face to clear . |
| 29 | The RCM understood this as well as they understood the realities of keeping up the supply of foster parents . |
| 30 | We can now understand the importance to a country of keeping up the volume of exports . |