Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether specific plans to follow up the lesson have been made . |
| 2 | There are many occurrences of volcanic activity in areas remote from plate margins ; the volcanoes of the East African Rift system , such as Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya , the volcanic and associated hydrothermal activity of the Yellowstone region in Wyoming , U S A ( Fig. 4.3 ) , and the chain of volcanic peaks making up the Hawaiian Islands are examples from both continental and oceanic regions . |
| 3 | Brian Wisenden and Miles Keenleyside , of the University of Western Ontario , have spent the past two years studying the convict cichlid Cichlasoma nigrofasciatum ( named for its distinctive stripes ) , a species already known to have the common cichlid habit of forming monogamous pairs to bring up the next generation . |
| 4 | Once an integrated representation of the clause as a unit is created , the specific words making up the clause can be discarded from memory to make way for the words of the next clause . |
| 5 | The cost was indeed so great that there were not even enough rich and unsuitable candidates to buy up the nominations . |
| 6 | Er and seek good qualified er Consultants to carry out the work which could be deliberated on by the various Committees of the County Council and the District and that work has been done and I think if I saw anything Chairman from the meeting on the twenty second of December at St Albans , it was that form very first time three political parties took up the policy and they started to address particular issues er er er we believe less measures partaken . |
| 7 | Repeated attempts to start up a newly refitted reactor were delayed by a series of minor faults , including a small fire , insulation problems , and pump failures . |
| 8 | All this formed a background to the first century of crusading ; and it goes some way to explaining the more secular aspects of the magnetism which drew French knights to take up the cross in their thousands . |
| 9 | The different definitions open up the possibility of divergent interpretations . |
| 10 | It took some time to reassemble their people , so much so that presently Douglas , growing impatient , left some of his lesser commanders to round up the stragglers , attend to the wounded and collect the booty from the camp . |
| 11 | The problem is that foreign scouts snap up the talented ones to work abroad . |
| 12 | In 1988 the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors set up a ‘ cut-price ’ arrangement which enabled house-buyers to take disputes about house surveys to arbitration . |
| 13 | Such an approach 's insistence on dealing with non-traditional , non-objective methods points up the ambiguities which characterize psychological methods , in a persistent and useful way . |
| 14 | In fact development of Housing Action Trusts to deal with particularly run-down estates and Scottish Homes to break up the public sector suggests an alternative vision , based on state-sponsored restructuring and renewal from above , rather than individual choice . |
| 15 | The Scottish nobles set up a Regency Council with control of Margaret 's baby sons , one of whom , Alexander , Duke of Ross , dies soon after his mother 's sudden departure for England . |
| 16 | Implementation of the Eleventh Company Law Directive will add further complexities to the law relating to disclosure of information by foreign companies setting up a place of business in the UK , according to the Institute 's Company Law Sub-committee . |
| 17 | This theory seems to me the most sophisticated method at present available of conceiving the relationship between musical forms and practices , on the one hand , and class interests and social structure , on the other ; more sophisticated , say , than the theories of homology put forward by some ethnomusicologists and subcultural theorists , which suggest the existence of structural ‘ resonances ’ , or homologies , between the different elements making up a socio-cultural whole. ; Such theories always end up in some kind of reductionism — ‘ upwards ’ , into an idealist cultural spirit , ‘ downwards ’ , into economism , sociologism or technologism , or by ‘ circumnavigation ’ , in a functionalist holism . |
| 18 | MORE than 800 French fishermen smashed up a section of Paris 's main wholesale food market and fought with riot police today in an explosion of anger at low producer prices and competition from imports . |
| 19 | French retailers hike up the prices of their mature stocks with even more frequency and gusto than their British counterparts , and this can make ready-to-drink claret and burgundy très cher indeed . |
| 20 | Externalized graphic , plastic , dramatic , or electronic representations make up the ‘ media ’ and provide that cultural environment that is so inextricably intercalated with the biology of the performers and the physicality of the environment . |
| 21 | The social sciences took up the challenge and , importantly for the development of International Relations , paraded economics as an exemplary application of scientific method to human affairs . |
| 22 | The miscellany of different loans make up an alphabet soup of SALs , SECALs and ESAFs . |
| 23 | By using different ways to add up the forces on each star from the infinite number of other stars in the universe , one can get different answers to the question of whether the stars can remain at constant distances from each other . |
| 24 | What a delight it must have been to watch express trains thundering up the bank at Arkwright bridge . |
| 25 | Pevsner says it is like an overgrown bungalow and with its generous lawns breaks up the texture of the old High Street and the adjacent 18th century Magnolia House . |
| 26 | If we did not have certain terms , for instance if we did not have a word ‘ orange ’ as well as a word ‘ yellow ’ , it is easy to imagine that we would not have a concept of the corresponding colours ; indeed the fact that there is nothing natural or necessary about colour terms is proved , as one of Saussure 's successors argued ( Hjelmslev 1961 : 52ff. ) by the fact that different languages divide up the colour spectrum differently . |
| 27 | The old men started up the music and the eunuchs began to dance . |
| 28 | The English archers broke up the Scottish positions and the Earl of Dunbar and Robert the Steward fled with their troops . |
| 29 | The government for its part insisted on all-party negotiations to draw up the constitution , with elections to follow . |
| 30 | As the mouldboards lifted and inverted the soil , the tines on the powered rotors broke up the furrow slices . |