Example sentences of "[vb -s] up the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The new law increases fines for shopworkers found guilty of selling cigarettes to children to £2,500 and tightens up the previous legislation in a number of other ways . |
| 32 | Richardson is not uncritical of his subject or the paintings , particularly the blue period works , and certainly points up the variable quality of the paintings of the earliest years , where fully-fledged masterpieces were mixed in with hastily produced or rather gauchly sentimental pieces . |
| 33 | Christmas time , when party-giving is on the whole overdone , may make the social aridity of the rest of the year seem almost attractive , but this exhausting seasonal overswill also points up the ordinary isolation that obtains for most of us nowadays . |
| 34 | Consistently good water quality and a stress-free environment builds up the natural resistance of your fish , so they can shrug off minor ailments . |
| 35 | An Austerity 2–8–0 grinds up the final couple of miles towards Woodhead , seen approaching Crowden in 1951 . |
| 36 | One of the functions of the external stimulus is to promote an entry of external calcium , often mediated by InsP 3 , to give the primer calcium ( Ca 2+ ) which charges up the internal stores . |
| 37 | But the latter were clearly hopelessly reductionist in relation to a concept such as this which at once opens up the possible significances of what was once merely seen as the aesthetic . |
| 38 | This test factor is said to interpret the relationship between the two variables ; it opens up the black box to show how the effect occurs . |
| 39 | ‘ We are very pleased about this as it opens up the entire country music market for us . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | I believe that Bourdieu 's conceptual framework opens up the social-scientific study of postmodernism in several ways . |
| 42 | Compact benefits students by offering them " value-added " jobs when they have attained their goals , and so opens up the realistic prospect of job satisfaction and career progression . |
| 43 | The availability of in vitro fertilization opens up the further possibility that the proembryo which is eventually implanted need not originate from an egg produced by the woman herself . |
| 44 | Extensive use of the computer in project work opens up the further possibility of a computer-oriented career . |
| 45 | On the face of it , this seems like a happy ending that ties up the loose ends . |
| 46 | The building , which faces west , lies below a turn in the Sacred Way which zigzags up the steep site to the temple , on a little terrace just above the south wall of the sanctuary . |
| 47 | Some nights , he calls up the late show DJ on the request line . |
| 48 | By the law of association , the material image calls up the mental idea and vice versa . |
| 49 | She cleans up the Black Prince and puts him back on his table . |
| 50 | Priddle takes up the poisoned chalice for PWRs |
| 51 | The calendar , with dates of school holidays clearly marked , takes up the central panel of the sheet , around the edge are further panels containing information about staff , governors , PTA , emergency contacts , useful phone numbers and how long children should be kept off school for mumps , measles and other common childhood illnesses . |
| 52 | The hall takes up the central bay through the two storeys ; the dining- and drawing-rooms are on either side . |
| 53 | But Haslam points out that the competitor who takes up the new technology when the patents expire does not suffer from this halo effect . |
| 54 | The Government takes up the financial burden through the Public Service Obligation grant , but economies are still expected . |
| 55 | The lateral membrane takes up the entire length of one side of the chamber , pushing the grapes against the other side . |
| 56 | Right at the beginning of his book Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art , in the first chapter called ‘ Renaissance : self-definition or self-deception ’ , he takes up the old idea that the Renaissance was the expression of a specific ‘ spirit ’ . |
| 57 | Instead it takes up the double aspect , Januslike posture of any interpretation . |
| 58 | The surface of a warm , damp body takes up the wet-bulb temperature of the air around it . |
| 59 | And Isaiah takes up the same theme in the fifty fifth chapter . |
| 60 | It always takes up the same number of positions in the file name , and that 's useful as you shall see . |