Example sentences of "[vb -s] up [adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE highly popular series of Scotsman Literary Lunches starts up again this month with an intriguing trio of authors : the actor Brian Blessed , the agony aunt Claire Rayner and the leading biographer Margaret Forster . |
| 2 | It uses up as much memory as any maximum column on the right that uses memory . |
| 3 | The years go by and the Collector undoubtedly felt , as many of us feel , that one uses up so many options , so much energy , simply in trying to find out what life is all about . |
| 4 | The crux of the debate , therefore , is not whether social service expenditure encourages consumption and hence economic growth but rather at what stage and under what economic conditions it uses up so much labour , capital and other resources that it ‘ crowds out ’ the manufacturing industries . |
| 5 | The refrigerator has been built into the peninsula unit and has a three-star , deep-freeze section , defrosts automatically and uses up very little energy . |
| 6 | And we 'll start moving some food stores up there this morning . |
| 7 | But touring takes up so much time that there 's no real time to sit down and work out songs . |
| 8 | I prefer being out of doors , though , that 's my trouble , and writing takes up so much time . |
| 9 | It takes up very little space and makes a room look substantial . |
| 10 | A lot of firms need to buy computer power when their administrative work takes up too much time . |
| 11 | Thirdly there 's the old objection of participatory democracy that it simply takes up too much time and this is not a trivial objection , because the thought is not that it 's simply time-consuming , but because it 's so |
| 12 | Rather one must teach criminal law jurisprudentially and the circumstance that criminal law throws up so much grist for the jurisprudential mill fits it rather well for the role of an introductory course . |
| 13 | This sums up well this chapter 's exploration in search of happiness . |
| 14 | The title of the conference is Old , but Safe , which sums up how most people regard older aircraft . |