Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For people with long-standing difficult social circumstances that may throw up a crisis at any time , intervention might best combine practical help with a scheme to foster the person 's sense of control over his or her life , to reduce their sense of hopelessness . |
| 2 | Each student can make up a package of tests to go for ; he may repeat those that he fails , without the social disaster of being kept down a year ; and he may make up a mix of practical and theoretical according to a plan worked out with his class teacher , and bearing in mind what he aims to do next . |
| 3 | We have seen how millions of fossils may make up the rocks themselves , crammed together layer after layer to form formations thousands of feet thick . |
| 4 | It is thought that the defence is most relevant in the context of take-overs where a merchant bank may build up a stake in a target company for a prospective bidder . |
| 5 | For example , a designer may build up a sequence of actions which an operator must follow in order to cause his product to function properly — he has synthesised the task from a knowledge of how the machine or other product was designed to function . |
| 6 | If you listen carefully , over two or three interviews you may build up an understanding of the themes and patterns of what the person is trying to say , through watching out for repetition . |
| 7 | ‘ Three or four goes should make up the mind for her , ’ said Raimundo evilly , as Perdita picked herself up off the dusty ground . |
| 8 | It did , however , recommend the immediate closure of the two oldest of Sosnovy-Bor 's four reactors , and suggested that nearby Western states should make up the energy shortfall to enable this to take place . |
| 9 | They must spring up the trees as the monkeys are driven into them and they are the ones that usually make the kill . |
| 10 | ‘ Right then , I 've called out enough instructions , now I 'll point to one of you and you must make up the instruction to be obeyed in just the same way as I have been doing . |
| 11 | At the end of the lease the tenant must yield up the premises , together with all buildings , fixtures , trees , and plants thereon , including even what he has himself added ; but to some extent this rule is relaxed in favour of trade and agricultural fixtures ; and a right to remove tenants ’ fixtures may be given by the terms of the lease . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's just you should speak up a bit more . ’ |
| 13 | It 's perhaps fitting that the Services and Communication Department should bring up the rear in this group of presentations , because one of its key priorities is to provide a coherent professional support service to the organisation as a whole . |
| 14 | Most important of all , the cultural prohibitions on his genital urge are now fully enforced and he must give up the freedom of infantile sexual gratification for the responsibilities of adult life ; in short , he must obey the taboos against incest embodied in the elaborate kinship systems of the Australian aborigines and observe those against parricide enshrined in the totemic religion . |
| 15 | And people who strangle their infants , thus causing their admissions , must give up the practice thereafter . |
| 16 | I suppose I should warm up the audience with a few Hound of the Baskerville howls , send Rainbow 's eyes swirling round like Roman candles , and cause fruity Yiddish curses to croak and gibber from her mouth . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't mean you should give up the drugs . ’ |
| 18 | But , then , we should give up the concept of " identical meanings " and accept that there can be only relative similarities of use , and hence only approximate , pragmatically testable , substitutability of certain expressions within similar contexts . |
| 19 | When he was approached to run British Aerospace the government insisted he should give up the directorship of W$G , but Pearce , displaying his usual resolve , would n't hear of it . |
| 20 | Try and keep the majority of writing to the period of five minutes or so after the interviewee has left , when you should sum up the points while they are fresh in your mind . |
| 21 | But yesterday Coun Frank Robson ( Lab ) , who represents Lingfield Ward , said : ‘ I think we should weigh up the advantages and disadvantages of having a hospital on an industrial estate . |
| 22 | Here we shall look at the principles by which various methods of measuring velocity work ; the reader interested in the arrangements of a full working system and the procedures for operating it should follow up the references . |
| 23 | However frustrating , Labour leaders must keep up the attack to put Britain back to work . |
| 24 | We must keep up the pressure on the lairds , the stream of meetings , so that we are all welded together , we feel our accumulated powers , day in day out . |
| 25 | Mr Baker must keep up the peacemaking . |
| 26 | Must keep up the family tradition you know . |
| 27 | ‘ What she means , ’ Ruth said pertly when Mrs Longhill had left the kitchen , ‘ is that her servants must keep up the standards ! ’ |
| 28 | The Government must weigh up the needs of vital areas like job training , social security benefits , hospital building and the changeover to the council tax . |
| 29 | The governing body must set up a selection panel and the post of headteacher or deputy headteacher has to be advertised nationally . |
| 30 | This was the European Court 's view of the requirement of the West German Insurance Supervision Law to the effect that foreign insurance undertakings must set up an establishment in West Germany and ‘ keep available there all the commercial documents relating to that establishment ’ , for which separate accounts must be kept . |