Example sentences of "up the [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hills sums up the combined effect of the tax and benefit changes since 1979 : |
| 2 | The more successful Du Pont synthetic rubber factory could never mop up the ever-growing pool of surplus labour . |
| 3 | Their sleep disturbed , their murmured resentment rises into a wind , stirring up the packed clay of the wasteground as if it were desert sand . |
| 4 | They make up half your face in colours to suit you , advising you on technique , and you make up the other half of your face to match . |
| 5 | A ubiquitous lapel sticker , ‘ It 's the criminal , stupid ’ , summed up the other half of the NRA 's philosophy . |
| 6 | ‘ Players who whack someone when the play is up the other end of the field are cowards . |
| 7 | I picked up The New Principles of Gardening , a leather-bound tome by Batty Langley ( d. 1751 ) and wondered when she would have been b . |
| 8 | In the late 1850s Stringfellow took up the new art of photography , becoming so proficient that he advertised himself as a professional portrait photographer , with a studio in the High Street of Chard . |
| 9 | Carmen Callil is to take up the new role of Publisher at Large of the Random House Group , continuing to work in particular with Chatto & Windus in London and Random House Australia , and she will assume the additional role of Editor at Large for the Knopf Publishing Group in the US ( Vintage , Pantheon and Alfred A Knopf ) . |
| 10 | Simon Martin has taken up the new post of Membership Officer based at Malvern . |
| 11 | The portfolio of Mohamed Ghanouchi was altered from Planning and Finance to Economy and Finance ; Tahar Azaiez took up the new post of Minister of Professional Training and Employment ; Ahmed Khaled became Minister of Culture and Information ; and Ali Chabi was appointed as Secretary of State for Religious Affairs . |
| 12 | On Aug. 10 a Supreme Court judge , Giuseppe di Gennaro , 68 , took up the new post of director of the DIA on a provisional basis . |
| 13 | This year Ian McCartney took up the new post of Student Enterprise Officer and this addition to the staff has greatly facilitated student enterprise activities . |
| 14 | They 're saying that after all IBM Corp has been through , hiring a guy from RJR Nabisco Corp really takes the biscuit , and Reuter sums up the new round of IBM woes succinctly : the headline on Tuesday night read 24MAR93 USA : IBM TUMBLES ON MAINFRAME CONCERN , GERSTNER . |
| 15 | ‘ We wanted to record ‘ Polar Bear ’ ( mooted third single ) like it was on the LP — you know , more of a dancey sort of thing — it would have been too light to put out as single , and ‘ Then ’ was good to back up the first year of The Charlatans . |
| 16 | ‘ We wanted to record ‘ Polar Bear ’ ( mooted third single ) like it was on the LP — you know , more of a dancey sort of thing — it would have been too light to put out as single , and ‘ Then ’ was good to back up the first year of The Charlatans . |
| 17 | Mind you , I mean there 's no point they 'll be looking up the first word of each of these |
| 18 | From the corner of her eye , she watched him pick up the first coil of rope . |
| 19 | Similarly , the hero of The Prelude is taken from the ‘ educational processes ’ of the Lake District , Cambridge and so on , which take up the first half of the poem , and engages with society and history in the conflicts of the French Revolution ; the Revolution is not to be taken as a purely fortuitous occurrence , but the main event of the time , that which separates off the Modern Age from all that had gone before . |
| 20 | One of the " movements " in the suite which makes up the first act of Wozzeck is , it may be recalled , a passacaglia , that is , a set of variations on a ground bass . |
| 21 | The Waterline , then , returns to its origins , as the case study which is Billy 's life painfully dredges up the first scenes of his disorder . |
| 22 | He turned up the first day of the term , picked up his grant , bought a guitar with it and then disappeared ‘ till the start of the next term and that term 's grant cheque . |
| 23 | ‘ I will escort you up the first flight of stairs , but I shall observe the proprieties by leaving you to look after yourself on the second landing . ’ |
| 24 | Satan , in his accustomed place in the lead , came to a stop as he picked up the first trace of man-scent . |
| 25 | Abercrombie and fellow practitioners who prepared plans for the reconstruction of British cities after the war , and planning officers up and down the country who drew up the first batch of development plans after 1948 , worked to a common assumption : once the new urban land use pattern had been established , city form and structure would settle down into a steady state . |
| 26 | A person buys a new washing machine , and is unfortunate enough to discover that ( a ) the cabinet is badly scratched , and thus not of merchantable quality ; ( b ) the machine ripped up the first batch of clothes and half-flooded the kitchen ( ie it was not fit for the purpose ) ; and ( c ) the model delivered by the suppliers was not the model agreed upon in the shop ( ie the goods were not as described by the retailer ) . |
| 27 | She picked up the first box of jars and went back to the room . |
| 28 | That is not to say that there are not many other ‘ innocent ’ causes for these two symptoms , but simply that urethritis , which is usually sexually transmitted , makes up the great majority of such cases . |
| 29 | And if I said to you those three elements of communication that makes up the hundred percent of it yes ? |
| 30 | The calendar , with dates of school holidays clearly marked , takes up the central panel of the sheet , around the edge are further panels containing information about staff , governors , PTA , emergency contacts , useful phone numbers and how long children should be kept off school for mumps , measles and other common childhood illnesses . |