Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [vb -s] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What is true , ’ writes mason investigator Stephen Knight , ‘ is that the philosophic , religious and ritualistic concoction that makes up the speculative element in freemasonry is drawn from many sources — some of them , like the Isis-Osiris myth , dating back to the dawn of history . |
| 2 | There 's a castle , and a cable car that soars up the mountains to an area that has been dubbed ‘ the botanical gardens of Italy ’ . |
| 3 | On the face of it , this seems like a happy ending that ties up the loose ends . |
| 4 | The cold truth is that such captures are all too rare and it is a daily influx of petty offenders and successfully detected trivia that makes up the major part of the detective 's world . |
| 5 | Hence the rather long question that makes up the sub-title of this section . |
| 6 | The cells that contain the chlorophyll that picks up the photons are mostly sandwiched in the spongy heart ( the mesophyll ) of the leaf . |
| 7 | If you have the sort of hairstyle that shows up the root regrowth within three weeks , necessitating retouching with either bleach or colourant , consider a restyle . |
| 8 | And then of course they 've got this soldering iron type thing called the diathermy cautery device that seals up the blood vessels and this is being stabbed into her . |
| 9 | A sound that conjures up the balmy shores of the Carribean . |
| 10 | These compare batching and sorting times with direct reference , for a file that takes up the whole of a 2314 disk . |
| 11 | And it is this regular aerobic routine that speeds up the body by increasing its metabolic rate and gives it the ability to shed those extra pounds . |
| 12 | Though to me , Mrs. Proudie seems to be the strongest of the trinity that makes up the Bishop of Barchester — Dr. Proudie , Mrs. Proudie and Mr. Slope — Dr. Grantly at first dismisses her saying that ‘ when a woman is impertinent , one must only put up with it , and keep out of her way in future ’ . |
| 13 | The bass cut which this control provides has the effect of removing some of the boxiness that clutters up the lower mid-range at high volumes . |
| 14 | One day there will be a word for a woman without a husband or children that is not pejorative ; a single word that conjures up the image of a strong , sexual and feminine woman who revels in her voluntary freedom . |
| 15 | And if I said to you those three elements of communication that makes up the hundred percent of it yes ? |
| 16 | It is not the so-called ‘ nervous ’ aspect that burns up the calories , but the frequent physical movement . |
| 17 | Each column ( or field ) contains one classification of the information that makes up the record . |
| 18 | But the Nikkei Industrial Daily sounds a note of warning for NEC : there are two pitfalls for the company with the current order , it says : the sheer difficulty of running a development project to create the mainframe software that makes up the ‘ Fourth Online System ’ — people involved with the development of Third Online Systems predicted the end of such enormous projects ; and the danger of overlooking the trend towards downsizing because it devotes too much time and too many resources on the project . |
| 19 | But anyway the idea we have to fix up some sort of system that picks up the the targets from that . |
| 20 | Many of us have long thought that anyone who could lead the Labour Party out of the darkness of 1983 would find leading the country relatively easy — and a task for which , despite all the sneering of the snobbish clique that makes up the political élite in this country , it is not necessary to possess a double first from Oxbridge . |
| 21 | She came in eighth on January 6 after encountering unfavourable winds and suffering a broken forestay — part of the rigging that holds up the mast — in common with other competitors . |
| 22 | MPS HAVE called on the government to force electricity boards to use the heat that goes up the chimneys of Britain 's power stations . |
| 23 | Another must is the booklet that sums up the findings of the World Fertility Survey , World Fertility Survey — Major Findings and Implications , and its companion volume of statistics , Fertility in the Developing World , both obtainable from the WFS at 35-37 Grosvenor Gardens , London SW1W 0BS , UK . |
| 24 | To be just , that is to say , to justify its existence , criticism should be partial , passionate and political , that is to say , written from an exclusive point of view that opens up the widest horizons . |
| 25 | But their genes — DNA — are simply distributed around the cytoplasm , the material that makes up the body of the cell . |
| 26 | Conventional wisdom tells us that it is the lure of civilization that breaks up the old life , Tromø 's video games and bars pulling the Lappish kids down out of the forest into the town . |