Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , it will have to buy up the excess foreign currencies on offer with extra pounds — pounds it has created , thereby building up the foreign currency reserves . |
| 2 | The government policy is to expand the total number of beds in the island to around 20,000 and to encourage this expansion to be outside Funchal , thereby opening up the wonderful countryside and expanding the economy of the many small villages . |
| 3 | It is an openness to life as it is , without falsification and without cosmetically touching up the serious flaws in human nature . |
| 4 | The ticket clerk , who is a villainous-looking Copt , is apparently adding up the monetary results of his last night 's murders , and dislikes being interrupted . |
| 5 | However , this nutritional " recovery " is only tidying up the physical consequence of the disease . |
| 6 | Actually , plants are not the only creatures that can be better judges of character than many humans , for stories abound of dogs , horses and other creatures instinctively picking up the unpleasant and threatening vibrations from some human and responding with a personally directed snarl or with a well-aimed kick or bite . |
| 7 | Because we 're massively speeding up the evolutionary process , we may well create destabilisation within the ecosystem . |
| 8 | Demand on the system grew faster than expected ( thus building up the economic usage of the Supergrid rapidly and increasing the efficiency gains ) . |
| 9 | Expert systems coupled with NDT can greatly reduce the complexity associated with the interpretation of results thus speeding up the whole process and improving accuracy and consistency . |
| 10 | As with the NDT , expert systems coupled with CM can greatly reduce the complexity associated with the interpretation of results thus speeding up the whole process and improving accuracy and consistency of ground based analysis . |
| 11 | I have always used a magnetic board and marker to follow the chart and found that I did n't even have to look away from it whilst punching , thus speeding up the whole process considerably . |
| 12 | The initial pitches gave easy climbing up the low angled base , but as usual with routes having ( F6a ) and ( F6b ) moves , there were only two or three bolts a long way apart . |
| 13 | But for her insistence on being free for Dickie 's holidays she could have had a ward sister 's job in Benedict 's by just picking up the nearest telephone . |
| 14 | This will prevent the continuous paper feeding forwards after each section is printed out , thus joining up the four printouts automatically . |
| 15 | Not just patching up the old broken down life and saying something like this , from now onwards I 'm gon na go to church , I 'm gon na read my bi , I 'm gon na be a Christian ! |
| 16 | I never had a chance to see if anyone had been hurt or not because we were already accelerating up the next stretch of road . |
| 17 | A German Zeppelin had flown over the Scottish coast at Leith , and dropped a bomb which by pure luck hit a bonded warehouse full of whisky , which went up in large flames , thus lighting up the darkened city . |
| 18 | It was all too clear Auguste had been out enjoying the pleasures of Broadstairs , one of which was just disappearing up the main staircase , folding up her parasol . |
| 19 | I was still gagging up the last few dregs when somebody punched me on the cheek , sending the other side of my head banging against the metal wall of the shelter . |
| 20 | So at least the first two cells are still picking up the right two numbers , because we used the range names , we 've inserted a row on the other file , but er , we 're still about range names found where those cells are . |
| 21 | ANALYSTS and advisers were yesterday lining up the next series of state asset sales and trying to see how the Government could increase the projected £19 billion over the next three years to reduce borrowing and fund tax cuts . |
| 22 | Johannsen and the DK were still clambering up the long diagonal slope to her left , almost level with her now . |
| 23 | The wrangle over airline stakes has already forced British Airways to rethink its plans , and the much wider argument over farm policies is still holding up the long-delayed Uruguay round of GATT talks on the further liberalisation of international trade . |
| 24 | No doubt they were still digging up the little graveyard . |
| 25 | The shadows of the poplar trees had fallen across much of the lawn , but the sun was still lighting up the far corner where the grass sloped up to the summerhouse . |
| 26 | This is brave talk after the event , but in 1981 the speaker certainly acted as if the president had a mandate , meekly conceding control over the timetable and repeatedly running up the white flag before crucial votes . |
| 27 | Three Englishmen ventured north , bought into , and are now building up the 200-year-old Scottish printer Pillans & Wilson . |
| 28 | Pioneering scientific work is now opening up the immense diversity of sensory worlds experienced by other creatures : extraordinary worlds which we may never be able to enter , but which we can at least start to appreciate through our awareness of animal " supersenses " . |
| 29 | Albert Piggott , languidly grubbing up the dead winter grass at the foot of the churchyard railings , kept the stranger comfortably in view . |
| 30 | The horses were reined in and a man-at-arms plunged into the stream , presently triumphantly holding up the dripping book , which was returned to the anxious Queen . |