Example sentences of "[vb -s] up [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | On April 5 Manx Airlines , based on the Isle of Man , starts up a Stansted to Waterford daily link . |
2 | Enhancements include Telnet support for VT220 , a Microsoft Windows Socket application programming interface and non-X application support using Xstart , which starts up the application on the host system . |
3 | Enhancements include Telnet support for VT220 , a Microsoft Windows Socket API and non-X application support using Xstart , which starts up the application on the host system . |
4 | So I suggest the secretary rings up the secretary of Fenners do n't say you 're listed in newspapers cos industrial people do n't like that but have a word with Fenners and they 'll tell you what 's gone on . |
5 | It , as I said earlier , really just looks up a table of data values , numerical values , and comes up with an answer and you ca n't question it , you ca n't ask it why did you get that particular answer . |
6 | This exercises and tones up the muscles to the side of your tummy , helping not only to improve your waistline but also to flatten your tummy . |
7 | One adds up the probabilities for all the particle histories with certain properties , such as passing through certain points at certain times . |
8 | Thus if a defective toaster catches fire damaging the house and contents , one adds up the value of the damage done ( but not including either the toaster itself or any property used mainly for business purposes , e.g. a word processor ) . |
9 | He holds up a stick for all to see . |
10 | In Beverly Hills Cop , Eddie Murphy holds up a pack of Lucky Strikes and says ‘ These cigarettes are very popular with the children ’ ; and in ‘ Who Framed Roger Rabbit ? ’ detective Eddie Valiant is offered Lucky Strike cigarettes by a teenage boy and Camel cigarettes by the cartoon character Betty Boop ( Tobacco & Youth Reporter , Spring 1989 ) . |
11 | Third , we do also have a rich zoo of specific objects ( rotators , gliders , blinkers , and an expanding jaw-like configuration of C cells that eats up a universe of D , leaving only structured strings of D ( ’ eaters ' ) ) reminiscent of , but different from , those in Conway 's Life . |
12 | Moving like the late Dick Emery in his ‘ Ooh , you are awful ’ guise , Standerline eats up the role of the camp gay explaining his troubled yet amusing life in brisk gag-heavy declarations . |
13 | Where I call the cut , and he 's going the cut what cut that 's the canal I says up the cut between the two the two buildings she said no that 's the alley |
14 | Sometimes a mass of viscous lava gets intruded near the surface , but does n't actually manage to break through ; instead it forces up the surface of the ground on top , forming a considerable hill where there was no hill before . |
15 | The optimised X-Winserver speeds up the performance of X-Windows : DOS and Windows emulation facilities have been built into the kernel . |
16 | Super disk copier speeds up the operation of duplicating a master disk many times . |
17 | This reduces the number of errors from mistyping , speeds up the operation of the user interface and provides a session memory . |
18 | This reduces the number of errors from mistyping , speeds up the operation of the user interface and provides a session memory . |
19 | And it is this regular aerobic routine that speeds up the body by increasing its metabolic rate and gives it the ability to shed those extra pounds . |
20 | To the extent that policies are widely publicized and are regarded as credible by agents , the grafting on of the rational expectations hypothesis simply speeds up the process of adjustment to a lower rate of inflation . |
21 | The integration of the key system with the hotel management programme , speeds up the traffic at the reception desk since the keycard is authorised automatically when the guest checks in . |
22 | Alcohol is also supposed to have a ‘ warming up ’ effect , when in fact alcohol actually speeds up the loss of body heat , and can aggravate the problems of hypothermia . |
23 | A bagged concrete mix is now available which speeds up the erection of fence posts very considerably . |
24 | She scoops up the rest of the cakes , shoves them into some recess within her tatters , rushes out of the cubicle and disappears into the crowd . |
25 | Note that this may conflict with requirements of efficiency given above for example , a chain of subroutines takes longer to obey than the expanded code and the liberal use of remark statements to aid readability uses up a lot of valuable memory . |
26 | ‘ SEEMS LIKE Morrissey himself gives up the songs half-way through when he stops the vocal and uses up the rest of the needletime with yodelling . ’ |
27 | This uses up the energy of the photon , so it is absorbed . |
28 | However , Cézanne very often goes further and tilts up the top of an object even more towards the picture plane , so that it appears sometimes as if seen almost from directly above , while continuing to show the rest of the object from a more normal , slightly lower point of view . |
29 | In northern Europe , the common badger regularly digs up the nests of wasps and rarely appears to be bothered by their stings . |
30 | Roger North , the young Surrey allrounder , is the hero , with strong love interest , and a climax to tempt film-makers as he climbs up the gasholder at The Oval with the villain . |