Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 2 Make up a table like the one shown . |
| 2 | This points up the possibility that the organizational differences built into the preliminary study may be only surface ones , masking ‘ deeper ’ structures of thinking about the nature of social work . |
| 3 | So you know to check it and go back and do it differently and it 's the same with this moved up a level now , that you you keep in keep in charge of it . |
| 4 | Some build up a sense of foreboding that is either confirmed or denied , some make us laugh all the way through , some seem written only to outrage . |
| 5 | In 1781 the French astronomer Charles Messier drew up a catalogue of them , containing over a hundred entries , not because he was interested in them ( quite the contrary ! ) but because he was a comet-hunter , and he was persistently misled by fuzzy objects which looked like comets but which were not . |
| 6 | ‘ Our message is that there has never been a time like this to pick up a bargain , ’ a spokeswoman said . |
| 7 | It was a lovely sight to see all the sleeping hens on their perch and exciting to open up the door in the morning to find they had laid eggs for our breakfast in the three nest boxes on the floor . |
| 8 | HEALTH fears over raw sewage washing up on a Fife beach have resulted in one local authority forcing another to clean up the pollution . |
| 9 | Manager Mickey Duff has had talks with Coetzer 's management who are prepared to set up a deal . |
| 10 | This uses up the energy of the photon , so it is absorbed . |
| 11 | In Russia a proposal of 1802 to set up an institute which would offer an elaborate course extending over eight years to prepare young men for a diplomatic career led nowhere . |
| 12 | Browne knew the Masai well and understood how alien such a proposal was to their consensual system of politics , but nevertheless this was the beginning of a long and unavailing effort by the British to set up the laibon as chief of the Tanganyika Masai , until at last in 1933 the current occupant asked to be relieved of his office . |
| 13 | Does this sum up the kind of house you want , or have I missed something ? |
| 14 | This opened up the prospect of democracy being installed not by a bourgeois government but by ‘ a revolutionary democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry ’ . |
| 15 | This shows up the reason for this tough line which , unfortunately , is no longer the stance that the Court of Appeal now unequivocally adopts . |
| 16 | This conjures up the picture of Thomas the disciple who refused to believe that Jesus was alive again after being killed and buried unless he could see with his own eyes the evidence of the injuries Jesus 's body had received . |
| 17 | The poor state of the wall required it to be rebuilt and the people of Pennal took advantage of this to tidy up the churchyard and to turn it into a ‘ heritage garden ’ . |
| 18 | How many of us would be prepared to give up a year or more of life to pay back a debt from which we never benefitted , to satisfy the banks ? |
| 19 | This opens up a directory browser so that you can navigate across the disks and down through the directory structure to find the program you want ( in this case QFTD.EXE ) . |
| 20 | Island-hopping by coconut timber dhotis is the way the natives travel ; for guests to the Maldives this opens up a world of coves gently lapped by crystal-clear waters , underwater coral mazes and watersporting opportunities — alternatives to basking on the shores of an isolated stretch of sand . |
| 21 | Perhaps this opens up the idea of the Government substituting depreciation accounting in place of principal repayments of loans but imposing the same control over the depreciation charge that it imposes on the minimum revenue provision . |
| 22 | This opens up the route for having a company a partner and allocating to the company partner such share of the profits as the partners think appropriate in each year . |
| 23 | This opens up the possibility of negotiations between the Commission and the parties concerned and the Commission has shown itself willing to resolve cases on the basis of undertakings in [ two ] of the [ five ] proceedings it has brought to date . |
| 24 | If the performance can be staged specially for video , this opens up the possibility of bringing in extra lamps and interrupting the action at agreed points to shift the lighting round to suit the camera . |
| 25 | If the marker uses semi-standard annotations ( e.g. ‘ Style-sheet not used : … ‘ ) , this opens up the possibility of writing a checking program that analyses the annotations in some marked work and checks whether the mark suggested by the annotations is seriously out of line with the given mark . |
| 26 | This chapter has suggested that in the majority of large public companies the separation of ownership and control is a reality , and that this opens up the possibility that in some of them , subject to the variable constraining influence of market forces , managements will pursue deviant goals and/or shirk . |
| 27 | This opens up the prospect of developing the preliminary work done by Zamecnick , Stephenson and others into a general strategy for anti-viral therapy . |
| 28 | It is not very good , you see , on Government responsibility and this takes up a lot of time . |
| 29 | This backs up the evidence unveiled in TODAY yesterday showing that people are once again out in big numbers in UK shopping centres and malls . |
| 30 | This throws up a wealth of stems furnished with palish green leaves , comprised of lance-shaped leaflets , above which rise erect plumes of minute flowers , closely packed along the stems like pearls . |