Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb -s] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a remark that effectively sums up the difference between himself and the rest of the band . |
| 2 | Linthal takes its name from the river Linth which drains the beautiful transverse valley that largely makes up the canton of Glarus . |
| 3 | Harry Pollitt reported to the Central Committee of the Party in January 1936 that : We fight to affiliate as an organised Party , campaigning for united action on the part of all workers organisations , for a change of policy that corresponds to the desires of the Labour Party members , and that also opens up the perspective of realising at a later stage one united working class political party . |
| 4 | The frost causes the bracken to die back and thereby opens up the canopy to let in more light . |
| 5 | The Bank , by rejecting offers at r 1 , is in effect reducing its demand for bills ( D 1 to D 2 ) , and thereby drives up the rediscount rate to r 2 . |
| 6 | A good catalogue , therefore , makes life easy for its user , and so builds up the supplier 's reputation . |
| 7 | Compact benefits students by offering them " value-added " jobs when they have attained their goals , and so opens up the realistic prospect of job satisfaction and career progression . |
| 8 | As one trade union succeeds in a wage claim and so moves up the ‘ league table ’ , other unions immediately put in similar wage claims in an attempt to restore their relative positions . |
| 9 | Richardson is not uncritical of his subject or the paintings , particularly the blue period works , and certainly points up the variable quality of the paintings of the earliest years , where fully-fledged masterpieces were mixed in with hastily produced or rather gauchly sentimental pieces . |
| 10 | Icon Hear-It is fun to use and certainly brightens up the Windows Desktop . |
| 11 | Icon Hear-It is fun to use and certainly brightens up the Windows Desktop . |
| 12 | This can be done very simply in a freshwater aquarium by using a nitrate absorbing resin which rapidly and safely takes up the nitrate . |
| 13 | Caroline Scott 's circular set , with its floor patterned like a spiralling cockle shell , flanked by two ascending balustrades , is simple but evocatively conjures up the lighthouse , while at the same time providing an interesting setting for the action to work in and whirl around . |