Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [verb] up [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the fist occasion , the effect was to build up worrying inflationary pressures ; on the second , it was to create more bankruptcies , higher unemployment , lower investment ( thus higher unit costs ) and , arguably — with a persistent tendency for wage costs to continue to rise — higher , not lower , inflation . |
| 2 | Nona stared at the grey river where the wind was picking up little waves and throwing them against the walls of the river walk . |
| 3 | It was raining , his cowl was drawn up close . |
| 4 | Topaz was brought up short . |
| 5 | Your daddy 's giving up important business . |
| 6 | Loper is following up recent research by several scientists , particularly H. Weber and colleagues of the Institute of Toxicology in Zurich , Switzerland and John Brooker at the University of Adelaide , Australia : Weber found that dogs fed massive doses of one type of dioxin , TCDD , detoxified the chemical with the liver enzyme , cytochrome p 450 mon-oxygenase , and Brooker used chick embryos as a source of the enzyme to track down the messenger RNA responsible for producing it . |
| 7 | An important part of the preventive routine is keeping up good posture , whether standing , sitting or walking . |
| 8 | There have to be , there are particular reasons why er after revolutionary upheavals you very often get authoritarian forms of government and I would say in Russia and i i in a sense it 's linked with Harold 's question as well about erm the Chinese following a Stalinist model of economic reconstruction think what you 've actually got in Russia is not this sort of mass hankering after authoritarianism but you 've got a situation where the bureaucracy that controls a completely devastated , backward economy , which is what they 've actually got in the early nineteen twenties , where the working class democracy has just disappeared really with , with the , with the economic collapse , with the factories shutting down , with all of the old communist party militants going into the Red Army or getting sucked into the state bureaucracy with that sort of complete collapse really , economically and socially and politically , you 've got a situation where the central priority of the leadership is to build up Russian industry as quickly as possible so that Russia has got the armed forces it needs |
| 9 | Scathach was curled up asleep . |
| 10 | Painting software 's most practical use is to clean up scanned-in photographs to improve the output quality . |
| 11 | One of the growing practices in modern legislation is to set up supervisory bodies , or ‘ watchdogs ’ , to monitor the effects of the law in society . |
| 12 | The objectives of this project are to open up new theoretical insights and practical applications in the field of industrial fault diagnosis by investigating the advantages and disadvantages of a major departure from the way in which the diagnostic problem |
| 13 | ‘ Your lot are slinging up tower-block hotels all round the coast and stamping out the olive groves . |
| 14 | The African Development Bank is to draw up new guidelines for funding projects in the forestry sector . |
| 15 | Alan Eastwood believes the the answer is to lock up young offenders instead of releasing them to commit further crimes . |
| 16 | The Arab 's cutting up rough . ’ |
| 17 | He saw that her coat was buttoned up wrong . |
| 18 | The heating was turned up high to dull his audience 's senses , to make them more receptive to what he was saying . |
| 19 | The Russian Ministry of Defence is to set up special " ecological units " which will be given " unlimited powers to curb all environmentally destructive activities " . |
| 20 | Enzymes are protein molecules whose function is to speed up chemical reactions : that is , they are catalysts . |
| 21 | In 1938 Leo Amery expressed it in this way : ‘ when we are faced with the competition of a people who lay stress on the healthy development of their young manhood and womanhood , how can we afford a situation in which something like twenty-five per cent of the children of our country are growing up under-nourished and likely to belong to the C3 rather than the A1 type when they grow up . |
| 22 | The idea is to pick up individual blocks , move them around and drop them next to matching blocks to make them disappear . |
| 23 | One idea is to set up alternative decision-making processes for ‘ out-of-area ’ operations . |
| 24 | And now the states emerging from the Soviet empire are opening up new markets for him : ‘ Suddenly there are 17 or so more countries all wanting their own national stamps , ’ he said . |
| 25 | Only a few miles away other actors in the macabre drama surrounding Lady Eleanor 's death were taking up new roles and stances . |
| 26 | Lights from gaslamps which were positioned round the walls of the theatre were dimmed — lamps placed at the edge of the stage were turned up full and Albert DeNero was drenched with light . |
| 27 | Andrus was brought up short . |