Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] up [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accidents and vandalism make up 25pc of claims for loss of use of the vehicle . ’ |
| 2 | In the silence we hear a cow tearing up grass by the roots and chewing . |
| 3 | A meeting at the end of the Summer term provides an opportunity to sum up progress over the year and to talk parents through school reports particularly in terms of National Curriculum attainment levels and programmes of study . |
| 4 | Referrals from general practice made up 40% of the workload of the district 's radiology service . |
| 5 | Their attempt to whip up opposition to him when news of Stony Stratford reached London had proved abortive and since then they had apparently been a spent force . |
| 6 | Their attempt to whip up opposition to him when news of Stony Stratford reached London had proved abortive and since then they had apparently been a spent force . |
| 7 | In those states whose governments have refused to have anything to do with the presidential liaison officers appointed by the president to set up offices in the nineteen state capitals , radio station staff have been likewise forbidden to make contact . |
| 8 | But my mind conjures up images of how they know my secret shame , and are talking about me behind my back . |
| 9 | A major longitudinal study followed up residents in 175 homes for elderly people and found no evidence of continuing upward trends in overall levels of dependency ( Booth et al . , |
| 10 | So it was no skin off my nose , it was no big deal to shut up shop in the middle of the day . |
| 11 | were reluctantly constrained to order the defendant to give up possession of 336 , Stocksfield Road to the plaintiffs because of the earlier decision of the Court of Appeal ( Kerr and Woolf L.JJ. ) in South Northamptonshire District Council v. |
| 12 | All four Scouts sported minor shuriken wounds , swiftly healed , their cinnabar blood closing up gashes like sealing wax . |
| 13 | Flights took place sporadically throughout the month in a desperate attempt to build up stockpiles of supplies before the winter . |
| 14 | Surplus crops in wheat , cotton and wool were bought up by government-financed Stabilization Corporations , in an attempt to keep up prices in these commodities . |
| 15 | we rehearsed it and we rehearsed it and I mean I did n't mind they were paying the bill for and I literally with a college took up residence for several days before it in a local hotel and we went through it in every fine detail |
| 16 | Right : Mazda 's modern-styled Approach Light picks up movement in a wide detection zone , and has an economical five minute switch off delay |
| 17 | Open account : Under this payment method the exporter gives up control of the goods to the importer and receives debt settlement at a later date under the contract 's terms . |
| 18 | Gloria in the highest at closing time London 's famous Town and Country Club shut up shop with a superb show from Van Morrison , reports Myles Palmer |
| 19 | Many who moved were glad to do so and the economy as a whole has benefited from the release of agricultural labour to take up employment in the expanding manufacturing and service sectors . |
| 20 | Disappointing findings have recently been reported from long term follow up studies of school based interventions in North America . |
| 21 | More recent data is available from a long term follow up trial in New Zealand . |
| 22 | Our long term follow up study of patients who underwent urgent cardiac transplantation shows that many such patients can do excellently , both in terms of survival and quality of life . |
| 23 | Priest to take up post at Vatican |
| 24 | This leads the non-violent professor to take up arms against the thugs to protect his home . |
| 25 | Brother turns against brother as the devotees of the Cult of Pleasure stir up trouble in every city and town . |
| 26 | With the crowd being the most volatile in the Caribbean — rioting held up play for 25 minutes during the Test against India in 1989 -there might be some trouble but only if the West Indies are faring badly , rather than as a result of any anti-South African sentiment . |
| 27 | Vanne took the first boat trip across Lake Tanganyika to Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve with Jane in 1960 , when the authorities refused to give a 20-year-old girl permission to set up camp on her own . |
| 28 | It may well be that children younger than nine years have difficulty picking up information about intentions from pictures . |
| 29 | The database administrator ( DBA ) is given the opportunity to set up indexes at data creation time and this will increase the speed by which data is retrieved . |
| 30 | S J Paliwoda ( International Marketing ) draws attention to the need to evaluate political risk in a country before taking a decision to set up operations within that country . |