Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ An advance guard of hundreds of men , with bulldozers , mechanical shovels , tractors and lorries has for months been scarring the lowlands , daubing the green acres with splashes of grey clay and red earth in a mariner unseen since Beaker Folk raised their burial mounds or Saxons threw up ramparts on surrounding hills . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Last week their friends and relatives staged a demonstration alleging that police covered up evidence that would have supported that claim . |
| 4 | In 1989 , some 16% or 900 of the Polytechnique 's 5,000 students were female , of which Nathalie Provost was one , although women made up 56% of the student body of the University at large . |
| 5 | In Europe , it used to be believed that devils took up residence inside pigs by entering through a tiny hole in the forefoot . |
| 6 | In all over 60 parties and groups put up candidates . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Press with the thumbs and fingers to scoop up flesh , squeeze gently but firmly , and slowly release . |
| 9 | The country 's farm-workers and labourers make up 17% of the population , yet they are ignored by the mass media . |
| 10 | In every way possible preachers and troubadours stirred up enthusiasm . |
| 11 | If boards take up moisture once they 've been fixed , they will expand and distort . |
| 12 | The document is full of information about Dixons ' market share — reckoned to be around 16 per cent — and efforts to smarten up Dixons and Currys outlets . |
| 13 | The royal household cost £56,000 in 1550/51 , compared with only £25,000 in 1538 /39 ; pensions and annuities ate up £20,000 ; and permanent garrisons , the navy , and the ordnance absorbed £80,000 . |
| 14 | In Gabon , the prosimian Euoticus elegantulus , by contrast , has gums from trees and lianes making up 75% of food intake . |
| 15 | One of the region 's biggest hospitals is urging staff and patients to step up security in the face of rising crime . |
| 16 | Assuming that the organ is likely to remain the most common instrument for worship , the Commission urges parishes and dioceses to set up schemes to encourage people to learn the organ . |
| 17 | The West Coast had love-ins ; now London in considerably less welcoming climes tried the same , complete with an obligatory visit by Andy Warhol , Pink Floyd , and celebrants shinning up organ pipes as the night wore on and boredom or chemically induced demons had to be exorcized . |
| 18 | • Life and Pensions profits up 22% to £104.0 million |
| 19 | The first of these involved grassroots campaigning , the setting up of local groups , farmers and landowners putting up notices stating ‘ No Uranium Prospecting ’ . |
| 20 | The all-embracing AD/Cycle combines a set of standards and interfaces to speed up application development . |
| 21 | The all-embracing AD/Cycle combines a set of standards and interfaces to speed up application development . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | WITH so many western companies , consultants , bankers , venture capitalists and others setting up offices there , Budapest 's telephone directory can not keep up . |
| 24 | Like every creation of the music business , Kylie relied on hype and headlines to stoke up interest in her and her music . |
| 25 | But Mr Arnold Keilberth , of the German Union in Prague , said there were individual efforts to forge new relations : ‘ There have been voluntary agreements between Sudetens and Czechs to clean up cemeteries in Bohemia . |
| 26 | In the weeks leading up to the elections , there had been numerous scenes of near-anarchy as food was looted from factories and warehouses and robbers held up cars on country roads . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |