Example sentences of "[adj] [modal v] [verb] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This could speed up the introduction of HDTV in America . |
| 2 | The unscrupulous could set up a charity and then get company status , producing a set of accounts which are totally meaningless from a charity point of view . ’ |
| 3 | Dick had persuaded himself ( and so had I ) that a good solution would be a middle school for 9–13-year-olds , and an informed choice of a variety of upper schools thereafter : this would open up a rigid system and preserve the best in the grammar-school tradition , as a counterpoise to the strengths of the Public Schools . |
| 4 | but this would open up the possibility of governments manipulating the voucher system to encourage some courses and discourage others . |
| 5 | The possibility of amendment was rejected by EC Foreign Ministers on April 6 , as this would open up the prospect of other countries also trying to renegotiate the terms of the Treaty . |
| 6 | This would build up a fund from which they could afford to bid for new discoveries at fair market prices . |
| 7 | This would throw up a host of attendant problems . |
| 8 | This would drive up the price of securities and drive down the rate of interest . |
| 9 | The growing economic and physical hardships of the later stages of the Pacific War , and the inability of the authorities reformed with a view to providing equality of opportunity , in the hope that this would back up a new , genuinely democratic social structure permitting a high level of individual social mobility . |
| 10 | This will load up the main menu , as created by 3DMenu . |
| 11 | They hope this will clear up the problem here and elsewhere , for good . |
| 12 | If the population happens to be already rich in genes for B1 and C1 , this will set up a climate favouring the A1 gene rather than the A2 gene . |
| 13 | Conversely , if the population is already rich in genes for B2 and C2 this will set up a climate in which the A2 gene is favoured by selection rather than the A1 gene . |
| 14 | This will set up the structure of a relation called EMPLOYEE which has three attributes . |
| 15 | If the process is running , this will set up the required logical names and symbols , and the user then only has to type the symbol , specified by USERACCESSLOGICAL , to be connected to the process ( see Section 2.4 , LIFESPAN Configuration File ) . |
| 16 | This will drive up the price of securities and hence will drive down their current market rate of interest . |
| 17 | The problem with this is that although all that shows in column C is a time , the cell really contains the whole date serial number and this will mess up the arithmetic discussed later ( see Step 8 ) to calculate duration . |
| 18 | If you 're not doing it like that and you 're in a conversation or atmosphere in the room , when I find it , this little gadget is wonderful , this will pick up for a long way , this will pick up the dogs next door , if there was no other noise in this room . |
| 19 | This can dam up a pore until eventually there is leakage into surrounding skin tissue , producing the familiar red bumps , pimples , and in the worst acne cases , cysts and infected abscesses . |
| 20 | That 'll warm up the old bones . ’ |
| 21 | Anyone who is reasonably skilful can knock up a mounting without difficulty , and it is possible even for someone who is as clumsy as I am . |
| 22 | And that could set up a multi-million pound transfer merry-go-round at the City Ground , with fans ' favourite Roy Keane at the centre of it . |
| 23 | Our case studies [ see Chapter 7 ] have shown that these might make up a not unimportant share of the temporary labour force . |
| 24 | Together with the individual care plan , these will make up the description of the service which the voluntary or private sector home is contracted to provide . |
| 25 | ‘ These will put up the value of my land , ’ she said . |
| 26 | The ice and snow would disappear from the mountains , and as the new plants from the more temperate regions of the south migrated northwards , replacing the arctic plants , these latter would crawl up the now uncovered mountains , and likewise be driven northward to the present arctic shores . |
| 27 | Living systems store their energy in the cells as specific high-energy phosphate bonds linked to molecules similar to those used to build up the genes . |
| 28 | Simon muttered something under his breath about ‘ that would show up the teeth marks ’ which both of us hoped she did n't hear . |
| 29 | You 'd go in and have to queue up , wait for the chance to get the frying pan to put bacon and egg in it , and your hands so cold you could hardly hold it , and that would take up a quarter of an hour . |
| 30 | This is where shares are bought in advance of a large transaction that is known about and that will push up the price . |