Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb -s] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Main picture : The uncluttered bedroom sums up the atmosphere of the house |
| 2 | Exhibition-train revenue makes up the final 4 per cent . |
| 3 | This theoretical framework opens up the possibility of analysing the process of technical change in a dynamic disequilibrium context and of integrating work in economics , management and technology . |
| 4 | The surface of a warm , damp body takes up the wet-bulb temperature of the air around it . |
| 5 | His dying request sums up the faith of a lifetime . |
| 6 | The lateral membrane takes up the entire length of one side of the chamber , pushing the grapes against the other side . |
| 7 | I believe that Bourdieu 's conceptual framework opens up the social-scientific study of postmodernism in several ways . |
| 8 | I ca n't imagine that a little thing like a little torpedo takes up the sound ! |
| 9 | The son of the present owner takes up the story . ’ |
| 10 | Rather , the Prime Minister sums up the sense of the meeting . |
| 11 | In words like ‘ potato ’ , ‘ tomato ’ , ‘ canary ’ , ‘ perhaps ’ , ‘ today ’ , the vowel in the first syllable may disappear ; the aspiration of the initial plosive takes up the whole of the middle portion of the syllable , resulting in these pronunciations ( where indicates aspiration ) : ; ; ; ; |
| 12 | The Department of Ecclesiastical History takes up the story of the emerging ‘ Jesus movement ’ and carries it forward through twenty centuries to the present day . |
| 13 | GRIPPING SCENE : Proud pop picks up the tot he once refused to carry |
| 14 | Unlike Lukács ' insignificant event from which the universal is precariously drawn out through the narrative , Sartre 's singularity works synecdochally in a conventional antinomy with the universal , the relation between the two structured according to the familiar nineteenth-century model of organic growth or process in which each singular event makes up the whole while , as he puts it , ‘ the whole is entirely present in the part as its present meaning and as its destiny ’ . |
| 15 | Consistently good water quality and a stress-free environment builds up the natural resistance of your fish , so they can shrug off minor ailments . |
| 16 | A more general argument takes up the reference by Gramsci to the ‘ semi-colonial market ’ and develops the concept of ‘ internal colonialism ’ , which has had widespread application to areas as different from one another as the peripheral regions of Great Britain , the black homelands in South Africa , Alaska and the Amerindian areas of Central and South America . |
| 17 | A small dog struggles up the rock and chases them . |
| 18 | This is not the only advantage offered by an integrated spatial database for , given appropriate GIS software and hardware that are jointly capable of providing the kind of operations described in the earlier part of this chapter , geographical referencing opens up the possibility of combining cartographic and attribute data in logical ways , such as in determining those areas which possess characteristic A and ( or/not ) characteristic B. |
| 19 | She implored : ‘ If the immediate family breaks up the problems created can still be resolved but only if the children have been brought up from the very start with the feeling that they are wanted , loved and valued . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ The enclosed photo sums up the general verdict of our recent holiday to Zakopane . |
| 21 | After a juddering landing the cranky plane eases up the runway towards a chalky line reading ‘ stop ’ . |
| 22 | A separate sole plate heats up the steam even more , producing a much more powerful jet . |
| 23 | To lend naive party cheer , the young American DJ whacks up the dry ice machine which spurts more of its obnoxious fumes into the heart of the room . |
| 24 | Early of Ely and Family ’ ( 1771 ) in which the richly clad Earl , the Countess and their two musical daughters sway elegantly in front of an idealised Greek temple set in their newly designed gardens while a small African boy dressed in a combination of Turkish and Indian costume holds up the Earl 's diadem , curiously peering round the Countess to look up at his owner . |
| 25 | A curved position-sensitive detector picks up the X-rays diffracted by the sample while its transmission spectrum is recorded by a photodiode array . |
| 26 | New chairman takes up the reins |
| 27 | But some believe the DoH has stopped short of adequate advice , while others believe the new guidance opens up the system to abuse . |
| 28 | Big satin bows now adorn the magnificent marble fireplaces , golden ivy trails up the banister , and filmy white voile and translucent glass baubles float across the dining room mantelpiece . |
| 29 | The final scene sets up the image of Suzannah and the Elders echoing the painting while reinforcing Tassi and Cauley 's conspiracy against Artemesia in the scene before . |
| 30 | The new act picks up the Warnock comments that really the majority of children can probably be erm accommodated in ordinary schools , but there will always be a need for special schools , and in fact they do mention some proportions . |