Example sentences of "up [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seems to have grown up rather a solitary boy , and afterwards not by nature a businessman — unlike his brother , who quickly outstripped him in enterprise , property , and prosperity . |
| 2 | When determining their poll tax levies , districts were thus faced with already agreed demands from the counties , and their own precepts actually made up only a small proportion of the total amount community charge payers were required to pay . |
| 3 | This painful catalogue makes up only a small part of the inventory of the ‘ art ’ of the restaurant … |
| 4 | Usually , proctoscopy is only performed on known gonorrhoea contacts and these make up only a small proportion of female patients seen in the clinic . |
| 5 | The film as film , as ‘ text ’ , as visual artefact , takes up only a small place amidst this kaleidoscope of angles — and I have n't even touched on the economic aspects of production and reception , such as box office pressures , state subsidies , distribution and exhibition . |
| 6 | In the Khartoum region , female enrolment outstripped that of males at secondary school level , though women make up only a small proportion of students in the technical secondary schools . |
| 7 | The injected cells remained healthy within the liver parenchyma and corrected the phenylalanine defect for the normal life span of the mouse ( even though the cells made up only a small percentage of liver cells ) . |
| 8 | Were the kinetic energy of the wind to be converted by the shock into radiant energy , the localized H-H objects could expect to take up only a small fraction of the wind 's energy , in which case the radiated power far exceeds that available . |
| 9 | Agency workers and their close equivalents make up only a small minority of the temporary workforce and most of them are concentrated in a very narrow range of occupations , particularly those involving office or secretarial skills . |
| 10 | Although most enterprise unions are affiliated to a number of national labour federations , industrial or trade unions which include workers from many different firms make up only a tiny proportion of Japanese labour unions . |
| 11 | Those who have been living near to parents or who have remained in very close touch with them , are going to feel the immediate absence of the parent they loved more keenly than those who have broken away from close family ties and kept up only a dutiful contact with father or mother . |
| 12 | If you feel like a gentle lakeside stroll Grasmere Lake is to hand , or for the more energetic , Helvellyn , the most climbed peak in England , rises Up only a short distance from the village . |
| 13 | Women made up only a minor proportion of the prison population in Geurrero and I was assured that this situation was reflected throughout Mexico . |
| 14 | On sites rich in fossils , collectors often become bored with the commoner animals and pick up only the rarer ones . |
| 15 | ‘ The rest of us had put up much the same , given that we had done it earlier , ’ he assured McLeish . |
| 16 | Co-ordinating wall coverings are available in little triangles , dots and miniature abstract prints , but because the focus of the collection is on the borders , it is possible to put up just a new border and save on decorating the whole room . |
| 17 | If there is , please give up just a little time for them . |
| 18 | Excuse me could you speak up just a little bit ? |
| 19 | This earring here , this pendant earring just lifts that area up just a little bit , not too much , not too obtrusive , but just enough for sort of a a highlight catching the pendant earring just to lift it up a little . |
| 20 | Tukuse the only one where you move the choker or if you speak up just a little bit . |
| 21 | He stepped up just a few feet from the service line to receive Lendl 's second serve . |
| 22 | After it had crossed the Torrente Taro the tram had a dead straight journey for the rest of the way , stopping at three more places and picking up just a few more passengers , none of whom were regulars . |
| 23 | Though from a much more comfortable background than Burton , Dylan Thomas had been brought up just the other side of Swansea Bay , a few years older than the man who would become his greatest reader . |
| 24 | You can put any kind of gauzes in , as fine as you like , they 'll silt up just the same , there 's so much crap in the system . |
| 25 | His hand went up just the same . |
| 26 | And even if a miracle somehow happened and he agreed to try again , it would simply end up exactly the same way it did the first time . |
| 27 | Strangely enough Mr Fallon brought up exactly the same example just 12 hours later at a debate in Polam Hall . |
| 28 | Operational deposits make up approximately a fifth of bankers ' balances held at the bank , the remainder being made up of non-interest bearing cash deposits that banks are required to keep at the Bank of England to provide it with an income . |
| 29 | It is a daily experience in the lives of most women , who in turn make up statistically the greater part of the population . |
| 30 | In half an hour it would be time to take her loaves out of the oven : the only drawback to her new business was that it meant getting up early every single morning of the year . |