Example sentences of "[subord] [noun pl] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet if he has watched Eastern Europe closely he will have seen that , however the transition begins , be it by round table , coalition government or free election , once Communists give up part of their power they quickly end up losing it all . |
| 2 | In 1989 , some 16% or 900 of the Polytechnique 's 5,000 students were female , of which Nathalie Provost was one , although women made up 56% of the student body of the University at large . |
| 3 | If boards take up moisture once they 've been fixed , they will expand and distort . |
| 4 | Because cars take up room , they have the overall effect of spreading people out and making them more insular — driving to a distant supermarket in your car is a different experience to walking to the local shops , where you may meet other members of the community on the way . |
| 5 | But because parents bring up girls in a different way to boys in most cultures , women experience life quite differently and so bring a uniquely female perspective to many issues of local as well as global importance . |
| 6 | And while products make up 28% of turnover , the group also has a strong recurring revenue stream , and is keen to exploit it further — 28% of income comes from maintenance , 44% from services : consultancy , technical support and training . |
| 7 | Throughout the day , thousands of troops patrolled central Peking , while police set up road-blocks to check cars in the city 's north-west university district of Haidian , the birthplace of China 's seven-week-long pro-democracy movement . |
| 8 | Since trustbusters broke up America 's Bell system in 1983 , AT&T 's biggest switch-customers have been the seven regional ‘ Baby Bells ’ born of the break-up . |
| 9 | What is special here is the relaxed way they are grown , not just as climbers trained up fences and trellis , but also as scramblers , making their way enthusiastically over shrubs and tumbling over heathers to provide an added season of interest . |
| 10 | These areas provided havens for gambling schools , and the police did not dare to venture there except in strength — when attempts to break up street-gambling , or to douse the high spirits of Bonfire Night could lead to violent eruptions . |
| 11 | As authorities built up resources and expertise , and became able to take on the responsibility for making available all land needed for particular types of development , the secretary of state was to have made orders providing that land for development of the kind designated in the order and in the area specified by the order must have passed through public ownership before development took place . |
| 12 | Sadly , however , when psychologists set up games of Iterated Prisoner 's Dilemma between real humans , nearly all players succumb to envy and therefore do relatively poorly in terms of money . |
| 13 | When economists took up positions in government during the war , the theory goes , they acted as missionaries , converting politicians and civil servants alike to Keynesianism . |
| 14 | when John Brunner and Ludwig Mond teamed up as partners to start up soda ash production in mid-Cheshire in 1873 , they opened a new and significant chapter in the history of the British chemical industry . |
| 15 | When doctors gave up hope of any recovery , they sent him home to be with Altovise when he died . |