Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [vb base] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet if he has watched Eastern Europe closely he will have seen that , however the transition begins , be it by round table , coalition government or free election , once Communists give up part of their power they quickly end up losing it all . |
| 2 | In all over 60 parties and groups put up candidates . |
| 3 | Hardly earth-shattering stuff , but it was thought to have been a gaffe , and interviewers clock up politicians ' gaffes the way fur-traders hang up the tails of skunks . |
| 4 | The country 's farm-workers and labourers make up 17% of the population , yet they are ignored by the mass media . |
| 5 | If boards take up moisture once they 've been fixed , they will expand and distort . |
| 6 | Anticipating intervention by Moldavian armed units , the authorities in the towns of Tiraspol , Bendery , Dubossary and Rybnitsa declared a state of emergency , and residents set up blockades and organized militia detachments . |
| 7 | Because cars take up room , they have the overall effect of spreading people out and making them more insular — driving to a distant supermarket in your car is a different experience to walking to the local shops , where you may meet other members of the community on the way . |
| 8 | But because parents bring up girls in a different way to boys in most cultures , women experience life quite differently and so bring a uniquely female perspective to many issues of local as well as global importance . |
| 9 | And while products make up 28% of turnover , the group also has a strong recurring revenue stream , and is keen to exploit it further — 28% of income comes from maintenance , 44% from services : consultancy , technical support and training . |
| 10 | Throughout the day , thousands of troops patrolled central Peking , while police set up road-blocks to check cars in the city 's north-west university district of Haidian , the birthplace of China 's seven-week-long pro-democracy movement . |
| 11 | Sadly , however , when psychologists set up games of Iterated Prisoner 's Dilemma between real humans , nearly all players succumb to envy and therefore do relatively poorly in terms of money . |