Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This period saw the beginning of attempts by conferences of representatives of states to draw up treaties or conventions on different aspects of the law of armed conflict , what is referred to as the jus in bello , that is , the rules of how war should be waged if it should break out . |
| 2 | This degree of modification comes about partly because of the greater degree of digestion in mammalian carnivores compared with the regurgitated remains from avian predators , and partly because of their use of teeth to break up prey before digestion . |
| 3 | More directly relevant to our case is the fact that , through the acceptance of rules setting up authorities , people can entrust judgment as to what is to be done to another person or institution which will then be bound , in accordance with the dependence thesis , to exercise its best judgment primarily on the basis of the dependent reasons appropriate to the case . |
| 4 | Longer-term economic reforms to boost foreign investment included the loosening of environmental and Aboriginal heritage controls in planning procedures for mining projects , the completion of deregulation of the aviation market , and further relaxation of rules to open up banking to foreign competition . |
| 5 | The police use a range of methods to cover up rape , torture and deaths in custody , including the writing of false arrest reports , organising phoney post mortems and rapid cremations and threatening those who try to expose them . |
| 6 | A number of communities drew up counter-addresses in opposition to the High Church ones . |
| 7 | The Texas-based airline warned two weeks ago that it might pull out of Stansted due to mounting losses and delays in the granting of licences to open up routes from Stansted to other U.S. cities . |
| 8 | At high deposition , nitrate is found leaching away because the soil processes and capacity of plants to take up nitrogen are exceeded . |
| 9 | This Keynesian process of governments pumping up demand for commodities has disadvantages : government interest payments grow and attempts to finance them by taxation tend eventually to threaten profits . |
| 10 | Well lots of things dry up water do n't they ? |
| 11 | Nearly all territories operated strict laws governing the right of Africans to set up newspapers . |
| 12 | A solid wall of hailstones came up Loch Ewe , ricocheting off the windscreen as it swept by , hell bent on lacerating Loch Maree and final immolation on the flanks of Slioch . |
| 13 | This social context is not one where a body of intellectuals think up resolutions to an objectively defined urban crisis and then make this knowledge available to the wide church of policy makers and practitioners in the best enlightenment spirit . |
| 14 | Whenever Marx or Freud or any other thinker is used in such a way as an authority of revealed truth , then the community of sociologists opens up discussion on the basic aspects of the theory . |
| 15 | If , we have run out of leaflets pick up John ! |
| 16 | It soon became apparent that a crucial factor was the readiness of interviewees to take up areas referred to in the questions . |
| 17 | At Taï , the chimpanzees make use of many other tools , such as long sticks to extract ants from a nest , and bunches of leaves to soak up water from pools in trees . |
| 18 | We 've all heard of women giving up work for their children , but men ? |
| 19 | It is useful in making preliminary plans showing the relationship of the parts , the sequence of assembly and which groups of parts make up subassemblies . |
| 20 | It is useful in making preliminary plans showing the relationship of the parts , the sequence of assembly and which groups of parts make up subassemblies . |
| 21 | Boiling water hissed and heaved within dilapidated walls ; whence , also , the glare and roar of flames came issuing forth ; and mounds of ashes blocked up rights of way , and wholly changed the law and custom of the neighbourhood . |