Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , the Generalísimo 's unprecedented attentions to the visitor were no more , but also no less , than a lavish propaganda exercise designed as a show of political strength to conceal or shore up the underlying economic weakness and isolation of the regime . |
| 2 | He worked with scarcely a break to search out a new passage in the files , or to pick up the half-smoked end of his last cigarette from the ashtray , stub it out , light a new one , and put it down in its place . |
| 3 | It 's probably where the expression ‘ work like a dog ’ was born ; no wonder they shuffle under the shearing sheds and grab as much sleep as they can when they 're not clambering over sheep 's backs or kicking up the fine , red dust . |
| 4 | There 's two ways of doing that , dial them on nine nine nine or ring up the local police control , which for this area is at Newark . |
| 5 | He does n't run away , or hang out crosses or wreaths of parsley , or ring up the local press , he merely mentions it to his friends in passing , and gets on with his work . |
| 6 | Voltage and current signals can be used to pre-set speed or to call up the actual values for speed and torque , and the start/stop functions can be activated using the same method . |
| 7 | She had reached the place where the Dalek Killer had entered one of the six squat buildings that made up the central complex . |
| 8 | At the top right of the figure , which shows the highest level of completeness , there is a cluster of owl assemblages containing the same species that made up the typical owl pattern designated in the previous section : barn owl , long-eared owl , short-eared owl , great grey owl and Verreaux eagle owl . |
| 9 | Covering all the 15 regions that make up the Russian Federation , the network is to be used by the Russia Interior Ministry for criminal investigations and resources management . |
| 10 | Legislating for seemly relationships between the government and the Congress may be the most urgent need ; creating the circumstances in which the patchwork of titularly and hopefully autonomous regions that make up the Russian Federation have an incentive to hang together is , in the long run , more important . |
| 11 | Within this framework , Ryan makes two main proposals , both extremely interesting : first , that plot-advancing propositions can be defined as those that affect , directly or indirectly , the relationships between the worlds that make up the textual universe ( Chapter 7 ) ; second , that the aesthetic value or " tellability " of a story partly depends on the degree of diversification of such worlds , i.e. on the richness of the virtual situations and events that only exist in the minds of the characters ( whether they are explicitly mentioned in the narrative or need to be inferred by readers ) ( Chapter 8 ) . |
| 12 | The symmetry of any property of a molecule may be determined by seeing how it behaves when operated on by the various symmetry elements that make up the overall symmetry point group of the molecule ( see Appendix ) . |
| 13 | And that means you start off with the atomic bits that make up the lightest gases — the sort you get in stars . |
| 14 | The need in the case of the Oedipus myth to resolve the contradiction between two pieces of knowledge that are in conflict can be comfortably taken as the signified that lies behind the significations that make up the various versions of the myth . |
| 15 | Changes in the relative numbers of the different types of household that make up the aggregate population have actuarial consequences for the future pattern of public and private transfers into and out of collective saving and insurance funds . |
| 16 | To a large extent the prison numbers crisis , and many of the problems that are associated with it , are the unintended outcome of a series of uncoordinated decisions taken , independently , by the various institutions that make up the criminal justice system in England and Wales . |
| 17 | There are many different types of institution that make up the financial sector , from banks to building societies to various institutions in the City of London . |
| 18 | Just wanted to clarify that little point , so you know the organs that make up the circulatory system , you know how to check it , you know the one slight difference than what you normally expect veins and arteries to be doing okay ? |
| 19 | It is these that make up the greater part of the transcribed conversations in Appendix 2 of this book . |
| 20 | You glance over the thick tubes that make up the emperor-size brass bedstead , and smile . |
| 21 | And particularly over the last session we talked about the symbolic actions that make up the actual point of confirmation , the confirming of the sacrament , of the sacrament of confirmation . |
| 22 | The traditional elements that make up the perfect day are all here and it 's equally delicious — but careful use of low-fat spreads , skimmed milk and steamed vegetables mean big savings in calories . |
| 23 | These in their turn are grouped into assemblies that make up the total product/machine . |
| 24 | Mr Kinnock 's preference for his successor to be in place by the end of June proved impossible to meet , as the party 's rules decree that there must be at least 12 weeks in which to consult the three groups that make up the electoral college — MPs , constituency activists and the unions . |
| 25 | This key theme crops up repeatedly throughout the book in all the contributions because it is through language that the hidden assumptions that make up the common sense of both theoretical and empirical discussions are revealed . |
| 26 | There are numerous theories for the type , number and distribution of the holes that make up the free volume but we shall discuss solely the use of the free volume concept in the derivation of the Williams-Landel-Ferry ( WLF ) equation , Equation ( 3.11 ) . |
| 27 | The major difference is that whereas in Popper the decisions concern the acceptance of singular statements only , in Lakatos the device is extended so as to be applicable to the universal statements that make up the hard core . |
| 28 | At 0300 hours on 30 June 1989 , 1st Battalion the Royal Scots found itself deployed into hides , along with the attached tanks , artillery and engineers that make up the Royal Scots battle group . |
| 29 | Stomping around the 40-odd screens that make up the playing area , solving puzzles and avoiding the numerous nasties , is as absorbing as you can get for four pounds . |
| 30 | Good examples of this are the genes that give rise to the histones ( proteins that make up the chromosomal superstructure ) , the ribosomal RNA , the immunoglobulins and many others . |