Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [verb] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1812 Cuvier used this technique to break up the chain of being . |
| 2 | Reports were carried by Agence-France Presse on May 1 of heavy fighting around Saa'da involving Moslem tribes opposed to unity , and by the UK newspaper the Independent on May 12 suggesting that Saudi Arabia was fomenting this resistance to hold up the unity process [ but see p. 37266 for official Saudi position welcoming unification ] . |
| 3 | This chapter takes up the theme of industrial determination introduced in relation to the Northern Region in Chapter 3 . |
| 4 | The first section of this chapter sums up the differences which have emerged between legacies and trusts in the course of this book , and goes on to consider whether or how far or in what sense classical law can be said to have reached a fusion of legacy and trust . |
| 5 | ‘ And what 's to stop this dame tanking up the deal later ? |
| 6 | This picture sums up the Falklands campaign . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ This picture sums up the film . |
| 8 | Identification of this group opens up the problem of the date of the king 's baptism , and by extension the chronology as well as the interpretation of the second half of his reign . |
| 9 | This quotation sums up the reason for the publication by WACC of Few Voices , Many Worlds . |
| 10 | This surplus pushes up the yen , which ought to boost imports . |
| 11 | This business makes up the remaining 25% of group sales . |
| 12 | This insight opened up the whole world of aromatic organic chemistry . |
| 13 | Both radicals and the men of government criticized traditional Spain and its values ; this criticism opened up the polemics of Europeanization which have lasted until today . |
| 14 | Although this procedure speeds up the meeting , the dangers of such a course of action should be realised . |
| 15 | Which reminds me that the Jocks — I mean the real guardsmen who arrived from England this morning to make up the complement , not you phoney chaps , are going to be given their first lesson this afternoon . |
| 16 | Anyway , everybody rushed out into the kitchen and cook found some ice and wrapped it up in white cloth and then this woman picked up the toad and put it back in the garden but with the ice in her hands . |
| 17 | A FLURRY of legal proceedings will this week turn up the heat in the already simmering Timex dispute in Dundee . |
| 18 | Or does this example point up the absurdity of the assumption ‘ keep everything ’ ? |
| 19 | This book picks up the story from there , although it is written by a different author . |
| 20 | This ability to tie up the excess hydrogen ions introduced by acid precipitation is largely determined by the composition of the bedrock on which the lakes and soils form , with hard , impervious igneous or metamorphic bedrock giving rise to low calcium and magnesium content producing the most susceptible situation . |
| 21 | As a result , it looks as though any rethink of this weekend goes up the spout in favour of the ghastliness of paper for the beastly bureaucrats . |
| 22 | This view sums up the present Conservative philosophy , seen in government policies towards the welfare state , local government and taxation . |
| 23 | Now I 'd also in this time rung up the er forwarding address in Manchester , rung up the telephone number I 'd been given of the forwarding address . |