Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] up [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accidents and vandalism make up 25pc of claims for loss of use of the vehicle . ’ |
| 2 | Referrals from general practice made up 40% of the workload of the district 's radiology service . |
| 3 | But my mind conjures up images of how they know my secret shame , and are talking about me behind my back . |
| 4 | 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. |
| 5 | Flights took place sporadically throughout the month in a desperate attempt to build up stockpiles of supplies before the winter . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Disappointing findings have recently been reported from long term follow up studies of school based interventions in North America . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He is also facing an inquiry over the taxpayer picking up part of his £24,000 bill to evict a self-styled sex therapist from his home and was embarrassed by revelations about his Access card . |
| 10 | His captain , volatile as any ice-hockey player , was equally distracted , his aggressive posture conjuring up visions of the Perth nightmare when , unforgivably booted by Lillee , Miandad raised a retaliatory bat which , only by the grace of God , abandoned its journey towards Lillee 's head . |
| 11 | A PLAN to draw up registers of land which may be polluted has been abandoned by the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , writes Auslan Cramb . |
| 12 | Ha er a man on the hatch , t to tell the crane driver what to do or where to go , well you w you would have four men in the hold making up slings of timber . |
| 13 | Flat expanses of sand conjured up images of the savannah it had once been : giraffes picking leaves from high branches , an antelope grazing , and young zebras running in circles while their mothers eye a drowsy lion in the long grass . |
| 14 | Overseas exploration and colonial settlement opened up vistas of fabulous riches ; the existence of the barbarians could no longer just be taken for granted ; they had to be fitted in and given their proper place in the ordinary man 's picture of world geography . |
| 15 | Crowds possess great wit ; the group throws up nicknames of an aptness and ingenuity the clever individual by himself could never invent . |
| 16 | This feels wholesome and gives me the confidence to take up issues of racism and sexism in the Lesbian and Gay Workers ' Group and issues of sexism and heterosexism in the Black Workers ' Group , within the organization we work for . |
| 17 | Bourke also claims that another prisoner in the same wing picked up part of their nightly conversations on his radio . |
| 18 | This of course opens up possibilities of positive social change . |
| 19 | In 1953–54 nearly 40% of all male students were classified as manual workers ; men as a whole made up 45% of the total number of students . |
| 20 | Hardly a title to conjure up visions of wild youthful abandonment , ‘ Heaven Knows … ’ pushed The Smiths further into the badlands of bedsit squalor , a Godsend for those who could n't stomach the effortless polish of Sade . |
| 21 | In addition , each site has the facility to set up codes of its own for local use . |
| 22 | We all know how the smell of such and such a flower or soap or tree conjures up memories of an incident in our past life . |
| 23 | My hon. Friend conjured up images of people coming out of taxis and meeting friends . |
| 24 | However , although one or two balls did reach the land and even struck masonry , these were spent shot and did no real damage , the rest throwing up spouts of water harmlessly . |
| 25 | The public sector centres such as schools , colleges , community/adult education makes up 98% of candidates . |
| 26 | This ‘ impact ’ has from the earliest days of film theory opened up questions of ideology , of desire and fantasy , and of representation . |
| 27 | ‘ The Geiger counter picked up levels of radiation but we already knew those kegs had been stored in that particular freight car . |
| 28 | Even though the government picks up 80% of the cost of the huge security operation needed to guard the airline against terrorism , that still leaves El Al with a large bill . |
| 29 | TECHNOPOLIS : the word conjure up visions of towering skyscrapers connected by vertiginous walkways with flying machines of all descriptions whizzing about . |
| 30 | Then my torch showed up streaks of water running down the chimney stack . |