Example sentences of "[vb base] up the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Most include plant extracts which have a stimulating effect on the circulation so they top up the benefits of a massage and boost your blood flow for a little longer . |
| 2 | He continues pouring from one container to another , and after lots of experience and conversation with the adults around him can begin to estimate how much he is going to need to fill the guinea pig 's water bowl or top up the vase of flowers . |
| 3 | Hence some kinds of reading lead to more intellectually-demanding thought , challenging ideas , concepts and structures that build up the skills of critical observation , bodies of knowledge , and , at a further stage , wisdom . |
| 4 | We must take heart from our experience in Hyde Park , we must nurture that support and build up the confidence of our members . |
| 5 | The other isotopes mess up the workings of the nuclear reaction . |
| 6 | Using a ruler , line up the sets of marks and draw across the folded fabric with a pencil or chalk ( illustration 2 ) . |
| 7 | Using a ruler , line up the sets of marks and draw across the folded fabric with a pencil or chalk . |
| 8 | Badlands surfers in reflective mood as lumberjack shirt-clad friend summons up the spirits of The Pit ( left ) ; the SAS tighten up ( above ) |
| 9 | Show up the folly of I feel this so I do that . |
| 10 | Rogue regimes show up the shortcomings of law Experts agree the US breached international conventions . |
| 11 | These show up the lies of the society clearer . |
| 12 | Show up the vagaries of causality , he wrote , the banalities of style . |
| 13 | the shifting legs prop up the hundredweights of dark . |
| 14 | Clearly no one person could get round five parishes , control five PCCs , prop up the fabric of five buildings , look to a couple of church school governing bodies , visit , bury and comfort the sick , dead and bereaved , let alone baptise , prepare for confirmation and marry five sets of parishioners and at the same time keep up a life of prayer . |
| 15 | Pausing long enough at Bingen to have a coffee and look at maps , I decide it is time to abandon the Rhine for a while and cut up the valley of the river Nahe towards Idar-Oberstein and the Palatinate Forest . |
| 16 | This leaves a nice little ladder which I zig zag down on both sides with my sewing machine , then cut up the centre of the ladder . |
| 17 | Mine become so tame that they climb up the inside of the wire mesh when I approach the hutch and are clearly pleased to see me . |
| 18 | Turn somersaults and climb up the underside of a ladder with your armour on . |
| 19 | So she 's got her knuckles grazed , you 've cleansed it , put it into a drop of water , ra or else we 've used the Mediwipes or the end of the bandage okay , now we just cover it , okay , so it goes over , can you just straighten out your hand for me , it goes over the wound , okay and you can take this one that she can hold it for you just up there , right , now the rest of this just winds round , the only thing you really need to do is to just make sure that you leave the thumb out , cover up the bottom right and then come up towards the wrist , cover up the top of the pad , come back down again , leave the thumb out all the time , got the idea ? |
| 20 | The sufferer has to want to seek help and will not want to do so if other people cover up the consequences of addictive disease . |
| 21 | In the United States during the 1920s , job security and internal ‘ job ladders ’ ( i.e. promotion from within the firm ) began to be introduced , it has been claimed , partly in order to differentiate ( the semi-skilled ) labour force and break up the sense of solidarity that united a firm 's workers in collective opposition to their employer — and they were to prove particularly effective in forestalling unionism ( Edwards , 1979 ) . |
| 22 | They break up the flow of a race track and demand a less gung-go , more confined approach . |
| 23 | Intelligence operates , in fact , through concepts which break up the flow of our experience , classifying it by isolated , lifeless categories , such as cause and effect , beginning and end , subject and object , and so on . |
| 24 | By 1930 Addis Ababa was in a vast wood that spread up the slopes of the Entoto hills . |
| 25 | He could always get old Benny Robinson , his helper , to sweep the place up and tie up the piles of cardboard , but Benny had already swept up twice that day and he was now busy sorting out bundles of twine which had fallen out of a damaged carton and become unwound . |
| 26 | In the infrared there are two wavelengths , at 3 and 6 , with extremely high water absorption , coupled with good transmission through fibre optics , and FELs open up the possibility of using a tunable laser operating in a pulsed mode in these regions , thus minimising tissue damage . |
| 27 | The decisions that we have made on the interior and justice portfolio — to deal with terrorism more closely in an intergovernmental agreement — open up the possibility of much greater co-operation against terrorism . |
| 28 | The different definitions open up the possibility of divergent interpretations . |
| 29 | These subjective factors open up the number of variations that need to be considered and hence leads to an underconstrained design situation that can stimulate major changes in product concepts . |
| 30 | The recall of Botham and Allan Lamb open up the prospect of 20 of the 22 players who contested the World Cup final clashing again in the third Texaco match . |