Example sentences of "[vb pp] up the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we examine their structure , we shall perceive the way in which the wishful purpose that is at work has mixed up the material of which they are built , has rearranged it and formed it into a new whole . |
| 2 | One woman had looked up the meaning of manipulate in the Oxford English Dictionary . |
| 3 | ‘ In any case , I have looked up the time of your flight . |
| 4 | Poshekhonov said that he had found the way to laugh , he had picked up the spear of ridicule . |
| 5 | Martin Birchall has picked up the Photographer of the Year award for the second time . |
| 6 | A. Apling ( Department of the Environment ) immediately picked up the relevance of this statement to government attitudes in his discussion of Policy implications of atmospheric chemical change . |
| 7 | This season of exhibitions promises a unique and long awaited opportunity to address , at first hand , the current concerns and practices of the women artists who have picked up the gauntlet of the conventional ‘ feminism versus modernism ’ polarisation . |
| 8 | Some market men said they believed Smith was trying to support the price because the firm was already heavily exposed to Ferranti , having picked up the bulk of shares placed at 81p in July by Jim Guerin , International Signal and Control 's former chairman . |
| 9 | ‘ The police called the shop 's manager Jonathan White at 3 o'clock on Wednesday morning to say that the audio alarm had picked up the sound of a bomb going off . |
| 10 | Irina however had not picked up the seriousness of his last words . |
| 11 | As mail boy , he had picked up the habit of addressing everyone by their Christian name , whoever they were . |
| 12 | Soldiers had since picked up the habit of wine-drinking in France during the war and upon returning to England had educated the middle classes , further increasing the popularity of Champagne in the immediate post-war years . |
| 13 | As Fulbright presented it , in what amounted to a proclamation of American innocence and British guilt , the US had been had' by her allies ; and while this may not appear to be entirely convincing , Fulbright had picked up the importance of what Acheson had described as the danger of Ho Chi Minh 's ‘ direct communist connection ’ — and might , indeed , have gone further . |
| 14 | The reforms have speeded up the pace of resource management ( now being rolled out to all acute units ) , made medical audit compulsory and strengthened managers ' formal powers over clinicians . |
| 15 | This has speeded up the flow of information on companies to the regions . |
| 16 | The vote on Mr Craxi has speeded up the disintegration of Italy 's scandal-tainted parties . |
| 17 | Its rapid post-war development was based upon its close association with trade unionism , already firmly established before 1914 , and it seems likely that the First World War simply speeded up the process of political change . |
| 18 | The storms have speeded up the process of new though on such matters ; more or less overnight they have provided the opportunity to create a new order . |
| 19 | The 22-year-old fashion student has sewn up the opportunity of a lifetime by winning last night 's Northern Ireland Smirnoff Fashion Designer of the Year Award . |
| 20 | Although he later affected contempt for the poor , Walters had grown up the son of a working-class Leicestershire Communist . |
| 21 | ‘ We had built up the kind of company my father could leave to go off and direct a film for five months without worrying , ’ says Brian . |
| 22 | Never rinse reusable filter materials in tap water and never use detergents or you will damage or totally destroy the beneficial bacteria that have built up the efficiency of the filter unit . |
| 23 | However , I said I would try so I put on my best uniform , nicely pressed , and as I paraded in front of him I said I had turned up the hem of my skirt and did he think it was too short ? |
| 24 | The pressure to make cars lighter , and so more fuel-efficient , has pushed up the proportion of plastic in a typical car , from around 2% of the weight in 1960 to 12% today ( see chart 5 on previous page ) . |
| 25 | In the next year , one in which bad harvests had pushed up the price of wheat to 119s. 6d. a quarter , the overseers not only paid 1s. per week to Mary , but also found a further 2s. per week for Thomas himself from 26 May until 30 June on account of him having ‘ No work ’ . |
| 26 | The debate over the Education Reform Act , and subsequent developments since then , such as the appeal by the London boroughs of Ealing and Newham against their local Agreed Syllabuses , has shown up the extent of this polarization . |
| 27 | He had drawn up the list of church members and he maintained the other lists too . |
| 28 | He has drawn up the list of items below . |
| 29 | To complete the feeling that we had dreamed up the whole of this year 's Wimbledon , Andre Agassi took the men 's title with a back court display that made a mockery of the only seed that really counts there — the grass seed . |
| 30 | Leicester went into the game inspired by four wins in five games , a run that had opened up the possibility of a hat-trick of promotion successes for manager Brian Little after taking Darlington from the Vauxhall Conference to the Third Division in the last two seasons . |