Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] up the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile the main path route goes up the valley until sea reappears ( where these two routes merge ) . |
| 2 | Then I hear a muffled cry of alarm , but a rush of wind breaks up the information to my ears . |
| 3 | Approval will partly depend on whether or not the UK Department of Trade & Industry opens up the market for international simple resale to the US . |
| 4 | But some believe the DoH has stopped short of adequate advice , while others believe the new guidance opens up the system to abuse . |
| 5 | In words like ‘ potato ’ , ‘ tomato ’ , ‘ canary ’ , ‘ perhaps ’ , ‘ today ’ , the vowel in the first syllable may disappear ; the aspiration of the initial plosive takes up the whole of the middle portion of the syllable , resulting in these pronunciations ( where indicates aspiration ) : ; ; ; ; |
| 6 | This chapter takes up the theme of industrial determination introduced in relation to the Northern Region in Chapter 3 . |
| 7 | The monitor picks up the amount of ultraviolet or UV rays coming from the sun . |
| 8 | Main picture : The uncluttered bedroom sums up the atmosphere of the house |
| 9 | This process provides the manufacturer with more of a profit because the bacon soaks up the salt and water which increases its weight . |
| 10 | Tenderly : A 1953 jam session takes up the whole of one side . |
| 11 | The physical stuff of the universe wraps up the earth with knowledge and communication , and the earth shrinks , and those who do not partake of the great secret growth are eliminated and shrivel away under the physical stuff that is knowledge and communication and wraps the earth with love , for nothing less than symbiosis will do . |
| 12 | The new act picks up the Warnock comments that really the majority of children can probably be erm accommodated in ordinary schools , but there will always be a need for special schools , and in fact they do mention some proportions . |
| 13 | This inelegant but graphic import from American business vocabulary sums up the relevance of finance to the building surveying practice . |
| 14 | The final scene sets up the image of Suzannah and the Elders echoing the painting while reinforcing Tassi and Cauley 's conspiracy against Artemesia in the scene before . |
| 15 | Big satin bows now adorn the magnificent marble fireplaces , golden ivy trails up the banister , and filmy white voile and translucent glass baubles float across the dining room mantelpiece . |
| 16 | The sun sucks up the water into the sun . |
| 17 | and er he saw the , he was with Trigger he says , he says keep calm , drinking calm , were in here my son , right , and er its the bit where he 's leaning on the bar and the bloke lifts up the bar and he just folds like a tonne of bricks sideways |
| 18 | Oh shame it 's a bloke works up the bank |
| 19 | In effect , the cell body integrates up the plus and minus stimuli it is receiving , and this determines its own output . |
| 20 | The accretion process spins up the neutron star to millisecond periods over a timescale of 10 7 –10 8 yr , and , when mass transfer ceases , the system consists of a millisecond pulsar in a circular orbit with a low-mass companion . |
| 21 | Super disk copier speeds up the operation of duplicating a master disk many times . |
| 22 | Identification of this group opens up the problem of the date of the king 's baptism , and by extension the chronology as well as the interpretation of the second half of his reign . |
| 23 | The order of salvation takes up the order of creation . |
| 24 | GRIPPING SCENE : Proud pop picks up the tot he once refused to carry |
| 25 | One advantage of using a hearing-aid is in hearing one 's own voice ‘ from the outside ’ — the aid microphone picks up the voice of the user as well as voices of other people . |
| 26 | The first player in each team picks up the feather by inhaling through the straw . |
| 27 | Victorian values might include slavery , children down the mines and chimney sweeps up the stack , as well as gin parlours and asylums . |
| 28 | As you get older , and your age group moves up the pyramid , getting slightly smaller , do you think that your group will need more , less , or about the same number of houses , hospitals and other services as those who go before you ? |
| 29 | ‘ This picture sums up the film . |
| 30 | This quotation sums up the reason for the publication by WACC of Few Voices , Many Worlds . |