Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now a plastics firm called FOLARPILO has come up with tiny semi-permanent condoms for guppies . |
| 2 | Many people have looked at this before and they 've come up with various prognostic markers , some of which are extremely complicated . |
| 3 | It was so hot that Perdita would have liked to have worn shorts or a dress , but her mosquito bites had come up in huge red bumps and were oozing and itching like mad , so she settled for her pale pink jeans and a dark blue shirt . |
| 4 | But again there is ambivalence over whether they should be encouraged into the countryside : to the farmer and conservationist alike a vision is conjured up of marauding inner-city teenagers and other undesirable aliens , wreaking havoc in an environment best kept well away from ‘ those kinds of people ’ . |
| 5 | looked up with tearful metamorphic eyes . |
| 6 | She felt pressured and persuaded her clients to sell out of stocks they 'd picked up from various licensed dealers . |
| 7 | But BBC officials are waking up to the fact that , while they have been allocated both of Britain 's channels for high-power satellite broadcasts , the kind that could be received direct into people 's homes , they have no monopoly on low-power transmissions from satellites , the kind that could be picked up by central receiving stations — and transmitted via cable to homes . |
| 8 | Invisible to the eye , these rays can be picked up by sensitive custom-built detectors . |
| 9 | However , since we are keyed up for decisive physical action this is still the best way of working it off . |
| 10 | Local governments are thus not just caught up in recent political conflicts as some innocent or neutral part of the political machine , but are themselves crucial in interpreting and promoting social change . |
| 11 | Years of under-investment in the physical and human infrastructure have built up into serious supply-side problems affecting the performance of both private and public sector organisations . |
| 12 | Therefore either the customers must continually be changing identity ( so it is sensible for them to engage in some search ) and some expectation must have been built up about potential high benefits to search , or else search costs must be truly trivial , in order for the potential incumbent to stand a chance of usurping the established firm . |
| 13 | In short , therefore , by 1939 pressure had built up for certain strategic solutions to the problems of London and the big cities . |
| 14 | Most of science is built up on good solid craftsmanship and it is only rarely that the occasional blinding flash of world-shattering importance ever really occurs . |
| 15 | Their eyelashes were still built up with hot black , mouth open to concentrate . |
| 16 | The lawn itself has been built up from strong flowing curves and these naturally lead the eye away from those rectangular boundaries . |
| 17 | And Clara , who could see no elegant way of enlarging this tantalizing scrap of information , had to make do with it — she dared not ask any further , for she knew nothing about the Labour Party , nor about the elder Ash 's political views , nor about A. J. Warbley himself , beyond the fact that his name was written up in black Gothic letters over his son 's shop door . |
| 18 | In western Germany in 1990 the building industry produced more than five times as much rubbish as turned up in municipal solid waste — and most of it was simply tipped into Germany 's scarce landfill space . |
| 19 | Coal dust should be collected up into strong brown bags , dampened down and used as coal . |
| 20 | Most people in the Philippines , fed up with attempted military coups , hope that its fears are well founded . |
| 21 | Good news for diaphragm users fed up with slippery spermicidal gel . |
| 22 | It goes like this : back in 1983 local people decided they were fed up with repeated Indonesian Government promises that the village would soon be connected to the national electricity grid . |
| 23 | But the largest of these was a group made up of assorted Yugoslav military formations , mainly Slovenes and Serbs , who had retreated over the Harawanken Alps from Slovenia on 7 May , together with German units , the White Russian Schutzkorps , camp followers and civilian refugees . |
| 24 | The distinction is an important one : books on a shelf may be in poor condition , and may indeed deteriorate in their locations ( particularly when they are made up of self-destructive acidic paper ) , but their deterioration will be very much slower than if they are transported to a reading room for consultation by a reader . |
| 25 | The floor was made up of dark red hexagonal tiles touching at their points , separated by triangles of a deep chestnut colour . |
| 26 | Each hair is made up of three layers : the cuticle on the outside is made up of protective overlapping scales . |
| 27 | There is a distinct rural segment of this class which is made up of small commercial farmers , who depend on a casual labour supply . |
| 28 | His ingenious situation concerns very small homunculi from space , of the order of magnitude of body cells , who enter a human being in large numbers and colonize him to such an extent that he is eventually made up of small conscious entities . |
| 29 | The eyes of insects are made up of tiny hexagonal units called ommatidia . |
| 30 | The committee was largely made up of Roman catholic clergy , and they clearly opposed the appointment on the grounds that a protestant could not be trusted to safeguard the catholic morals of her charges in her purchase and loaning of books . |