Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is easy enough to set up an objective which really consists of two contradictory objectives : that is to say that to reach one you have to move away from the other ( for example , lowering prices on premium goods , designing a family sports car , designing tyres that do not wear out ) . |
| 2 | They very kindly drop in shade cards and patterns for her and Mrs Critten has only to pick up the telephone and they are there to help . |
| 3 | Vendelin Gajdusek flicked one last look at her , leaving her with no idea whether he approved or disapproved , and , pausing only to pick up the dog 's lead , he went to the kitchen door with her . |
| 4 | French plastic manufacturers and bottle suppliers have joined together to set up a recycling company , " Valorplast " , which intends to recycle around 1 billion plastic bottles by the year 1996 . |
| 5 | They help with the provision of housing , food and employment and give continuing support with money , perhaps to set up a business , go on a visit to Pakistan or to cope with unforeseen disasters . |
| 6 | I 've been painting since I was old enough to pick up a brush . |
| 7 | To this it might be retorted that no-one linguistically advanced enough to look up a word in a dictionary could possibly require a definition of the word home . |
| 8 | Sane enough to cover up a murder ! |
| 9 | The units are small enough to fill up the space almost as a liquid would fill it . |
| 10 | It 's that flippancy that makes the listeners love him ; three hours ’ broadcasting a day is usually enough to use up the excess , but he does n't work weekends . ’ |
| 11 | An agreement is needed , not merely to give up an amount of liberty , but to put it into the hands of some sovereign power . |
| 12 | One that seems to work well for many managers is merely to divide up the list into three types of activity : |
| 13 | Or , concentrated bleach can be diluted with cold water in the proportion one part bleach to ten parts water , to make it thin enough to draw up the needle into the syringe . |
| 14 | But this depends in practice , even though not in theory , on the current aggregate value of property transactions ; and the conveyancing monopoly is under attack from non-solicitor conveyancing firms ( who use a solicitor only to draw up the conveyance itself ) . |
| 15 | ‘ Important enough to fuck up the raid ? ’ |
| 16 | You have been fortunate enough to build up a reserve of savings over the years , or you may find yourself in receipt of an inheritance . |
| 17 | Except in a few cases , formal inspections will not have been frequent enough to build up the kind of collective experience that HMIs have . |
| 18 | As this process continues , the scope for further squeezing of the wealth of households through inflation is being reduced , and , so long as the authorities rely on inflation as a method of financing government expenditure , they will be obliged constantly to speed up the rate of inflation in order to achieve the same real effect . |
| 19 | ‘ There was a time when photographs were used merely to break up a page of type , but it 's now developed into a fully-fledged art form of its own , ’ he observes . |
| 20 | Sadly the ex England Captain is n't fit enough to take up the offer of a first division runabout before the Japanese season gets underway . |
| 21 | Sadly the ex England Captain is n't fit enough to take up the offer of a first division runabout before the Japanese season gets underway . |
| 22 | He sought only to take up the challenge they had thrown down in their fight against Fascism and Britain . |
| 23 | However , if the crisis has been particularly sharp and the depression of sufficient duration then it is more likely that the total of will increase sufficiently to push up the price of consumer goods . |
| 24 | In other words , a complete picture of the structure of competition must be built up from consideration of the location and form of the whole chain of activities that go together to make up a business . |
| 25 | Over the years two streams have perpetually flowed together to make up the story of this congregation . |
| 26 | In order to explain this excess radiation additional inputs of energy to Jupiter from beyond the planet have been considered , but none seem anywhere near large enough to make up the difference . |
| 27 | But from the way he reached out slowly to pick up the bottle and said , " In the meantime — my treat ? " |
| 28 | They heard one of the Arabs get out and moments later a metal gate was opened and the van drove forward a few feet before stopping again , presumably to pick up the Arab . |
| 29 | If it goes as well as expected , decisions will have to be made this year on how best to scale up the operation and where to site the next expansion , he said . |
| 30 | Just to pick up a point on er Miss 's latest request for information . |