Example sentences of "this [vb -s] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This builds up the muscles which locate the knee joint , helping to stop it moving above and grinding up bits of cartilage . |
| 2 | This points up the possibility that the organizational differences built into the preliminary study may be only surface ones , masking ‘ deeper ’ structures of thinking about the nature of social work . |
| 3 | This uses up the energy of the photon , so it is absorbed . |
| 4 | This shows up the reason for this tough line which , unfortunately , is no longer the stance that the Court of Appeal now unequivocally adopts . |
| 5 | This conjures up the picture of Thomas the disciple who refused to believe that Jesus was alive again after being killed and buried unless he could see with his own eyes the evidence of the injuries Jesus 's body had received . |
| 6 | Perhaps this opens up the idea of the Government substituting depreciation accounting in place of principal repayments of loans but imposing the same control over the depreciation charge that it imposes on the minimum revenue provision . |
| 7 | This opens up the route for having a company a partner and allocating to the company partner such share of the profits as the partners think appropriate in each year . |
| 8 | This opens up the possibility of negotiations between the Commission and the parties concerned and the Commission has shown itself willing to resolve cases on the basis of undertakings in [ two ] of the [ five ] proceedings it has brought to date . |
| 9 | If the performance can be staged specially for video , this opens up the possibility of bringing in extra lamps and interrupting the action at agreed points to shift the lighting round to suit the camera . |
| 10 | If the marker uses semi-standard annotations ( e.g. ‘ Style-sheet not used : … ‘ ) , this opens up the possibility of writing a checking program that analyses the annotations in some marked work and checks whether the mark suggested by the annotations is seriously out of line with the given mark . |
| 11 | This chapter has suggested that in the majority of large public companies the separation of ownership and control is a reality , and that this opens up the possibility that in some of them , subject to the variable constraining influence of market forces , managements will pursue deviant goals and/or shirk . |
| 12 | This opens up the prospect of developing the preliminary work done by Zamecnick , Stephenson and others into a general strategy for anti-viral therapy . |
| 13 | Among other things , this opens up the multiculturalists and antiracists to the very charge of propaganda and indoctrination which they level at the textbooks , authors and teachers they are attempting to challenge . |
| 14 | This backs up the evidence unveiled in TODAY yesterday showing that people are once again out in big numbers in UK shopping centres and malls . |
| 15 | This picks up the transmitter 's signal and makes it audible to our ears when the ferret is within range . |
| 16 | Obviously this puts up the system cost over long distances . |
| 17 | This blocks up the jets and air passages in the carb leading to the engine stopping . |