Example sentences of "[vb -s] up [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every mile of dual carriageway eats up twenty-six acres of countryside ; the government are committed to fourteen billion pounds expenditure on a road-building expansion . |
| 2 | Oxidation of organic waste also uses up large quantities of oxygen ( e.g. oxidation of hydrogen sulphide ) . |
| 3 | It conjures up vague images of past imperialistic glories which are hardly relevant . |
| 4 | Secondly , I am well aware that the idea of a ‘ Crisis Centre ’ conjures up all kinds of pictures . |
| 5 | Freud told the old Man that had he not become an analyst , he would have been an economist , which conjures up all sorts of hilarious possibilities . |
| 6 | But the bread oven conjures up delicious smells of baking and a homely warmth , missing in most modern homes . |
| 7 | The prospect conjures up magic memories of the vintage clashes featuring Jimmy Greaves and George Best , but £2 million Anderton is still battling to shake off a stomach strain . |
| 8 | His head is cocked slightly to one side , as if to reduce his height to Shirley Esplin 's level , and a slight sympathetic smile goes up one side of his face . |
| 9 | First , a careful search ( takes 10 Turns ) of the alchemical section turns up two works of note : De Lapis Philosophorum in Bretonnian , and the small and quirky Lermontov 's Grimoire ( see New Magic ) ; the latter needs an I test to find it unless the adventurers know that it 's here for some reason . |
| 10 | How stable is a system which can not employ an increasing proportion of the population , which leaves half the world destitute , which rides a switchback cycle between boom and bust , which piles up tottering mountains of debt ? |
| 11 | The method used by the original Canon laser engine is called ‘ write black ’ because it charges up those areas of the drum that are going to become black when printed . |
| 12 | Will power of the iron man Mining millionaire 's death opens up rich seam of intrigue and pits widow against daughter in struggle for vast riches |
| 13 | Linked to video materials , this opens up all kinds of possibilities for learning by individuals or small groups . |
| 14 | ‘ Neither do I. Opens up all sorts of avenues of interesting speculation , does n't it ? ’ |
| 15 | Holmes says : ‘ Steve could not have made a better start to his outdoor season and it opens up all sorts of possibilities . |
| 16 | The ‘ Serendipity ’ group teaching material emphasizes not only scriptural exposition and application , but opens up many areas of personal life experience , encouraging mutual involvement in each other 's discipleship . |
| 17 | It opens up new ways of co-operating in Europe . |
| 18 | Most importantly , it opens up new ways of co-operation with our European partners , not just the way of straight-through Community competence and the European court of Justice . |
| 19 | A friendly ‘ Servus ’ opens up endless perspectives of summer fun : hiking , riding , sailing , windsurfing , tennis , golf … |
| 20 | Thus ‘ etheric geography ’ opens up another possibility of interpreting the landscape in a more subtle and complete way than has usually been done . |
| 21 | In the matching sonnets , 63 and 65 , Shakespeare calls up great reserves of language and feeling to create the corroding power of age and ‘ sad mortality ’ : ‘ Against my love shall be as I am now/With Time 's injurious hand crush 'd and o'erworn ’ ( 63 ) . |
| 22 | Brand B sells at £75 per month and takes up 7 metres of space . |
| 23 | This is particularly true of libraries and archives in which valuable information is stored in a manner that takes up vast amounts of space , is prone to decay , and may not be easily accessible . |
| 24 | The equipment for funnelling off the carbon-12 takes up two sides of a workshop the size of a church hall . |
| 25 | the spaghetti takes up 10 metres of shelf space |
| 26 | Brand A sells at £150 per month and takes up 10 feet of shelf space . |
| 27 | Brand C sells at £39 per month and takes up 13 metres of space . |
| 28 | The fact that the collection takes up some 8M of disk space may also be regarded as something of a stumbling block … |
| 29 | It is also an independent feeding method which involves a separate rod and line to lower the dropper in , or , if used with the same rod and line with which you are fishing , takes up precious minutes of time when your hookbait could be in the water ; valuable minutes when the barbel are mad on feed . |
| 30 | presented a ‘ grid ’ file that performs particularly well when the number of search attributes is ten or less , and offers a high data storage utilization , good growth characteristics and efficient processing of range queries ; Stanfill and Kahle explain the principles of a parallel free-text search on a particular parallel computer , and claim a retrieval speed of 2 — 3 minutes for Boolean queries of 25 and 20000 terms respectively when the database in question takes up 15 Gbytes of storage space . |