Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | This includes an 18% rise in the value of whisky exports up to £177.6 million . |
| 2 | When the forest is gone , the great reservoir of moisture stored up in its vegetable mould is evaporated , and returns only in deluges of rain to wash away the parched dust into which that mould has been converted . |
| 3 | Malone absorbed the pressure and against the run of play took up a position inside their opponents 22 . |
| 4 | He does not have any feel for how strategy and the construction of social constituencies of support match up , or for wider social and cultural themes . |
| 5 | From the west and north powerful gales swept from off the north Atlantic Ocean , sending great waves roaring into the cliffs below his flight , and spumes of sea-spray came up to put salt on his wings . |
| 6 | ‘ And why do n't we have a bottle of champagne sent up ? ’ |
| 7 | The barber took a knife to the thicket , weighed it when it was off , and gave her 2½ lb of hair wrapped up in tissue paper which the nurse briskly took from her as soon as they were outside because she did n't believe in being morbid . |
| 8 | There would be opportunities here for a cross-European sharing of expertise built up around bilingual skills . |
| 9 | ‘ You know what this means , do n't you ? ’ she responded , a sudden access of hope lighting up her face . |
| 10 | As she arched her foot , her hand automatically flexed and a strand of hope flickered up her arm and across her back . |
| 11 | It is a result of the huge number of parties , most allergic to party discipline , that the collapse of communism threw up . |
| 12 | Firstly the price of admission went up by 50pc at the beginning of the season a lot of money in an area which still has among the worst unemployment rates in mainland Britain ( and the lowest amount of disposable income per head of population if we are getting into statistics ) . |
| 13 | It had been wounded , and was struggling to stay afloat with its snout jutting horizontally above the water , its dark mane of bristle bobbing up and down amid the white rise of the current . |
| 14 | The original version of Illustrator picked up several awards but neither was nor is a mainstream graphics tool in the same way as MacDraw has become . |
| 15 | Patricia Whitaker-Dowling , David Wilcox , Christopher Widnell and Julius Youngner at Pittsburgh University have shown that interferon can prevent viruses from getting inside animal cells , and they believe that this might be the first line of defence set up by the interferon system in response to viral attack ( Proceedings of the U.S . |
| 16 | Gender disadvantage is of course bound up with concepts of identity and role and may be more problematic for some newly retired men who have invested much in their world of work than for those women who have centred their existence in the home . |
| 17 | All this of course took up a great deal of time and delayed the completion of Robyn 's thesis on the nineteenth-century industrial novel , which had to be constantly revised to take the new theories into account . |
| 18 | The difference between operating profit and profit before tax is of course made up of interest on non-operating items . |
| 19 | This of course opens up possibilities of positive social change . |
| 20 | Case loads of course built up gradually as the samples were generated , and then tailed off after the recruitment year ended . |
| 21 | And then of course going up and down here see there 's the notice up there no motorbikes . |
| 22 | So they risked all , and late one night when she heard a low whistle she rose from her straw pallet in the lower scullery and crept out of the house ; and when Tristram had climbed over the wall , she gave herself to him there on the midnight grass with the summer moon blazing down through the trees and the scent of honey wafting up from the silent hives . |
| 23 | Look at the amount of resistance stirred up when it was first suggested that operations should be carried out in aseptic conditions . |
| 24 | The French were delighted with the brave show of resistance put up at the disastrous GATT talks in December 1990 . |
| 25 | Dr Roger Harrison , director of product development for Eli Lilly 's subsidiary Dista Ltd in the UK , told New Scientist that after five years of experience scaling up Lilly 's genetically engineered insulin ‘ we have not perceived any allergic reaction in the chemical processing or packaging units . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ And this heap of fur taking up the warmest spot is Blue . |
| 27 | My night of glory ended up with a hobble to the shower and a flop into bed — very athletic , eh ? |
| 28 | As you would expect , a project of this kind requires substantial sums of money to set up . |
| 29 | They received this 3 years ' worth of money to set up their new community facilities . |
| 30 | burglar alarm cost a , the whole system costs a lot of money to set up , so if you 've got in here it 's not going to put that expense to set that up . |