Example sentences of "it [vb -s] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Things like , well , riches and justice and freedom and large things like peace and large things like that you see , or just erm personal characteristics and subordinate good is something which when it goes up things get better and bad or an evil or a vice is something when it goes up things get worse . |
| 2 | Things like , well , riches and justice and freedom and large things like peace and large things like that you see , or just erm personal characteristics and subordinate good is something which when it goes up things get better and bad or an evil or a vice is something when it goes up things get worse . |
| 3 | Well really , what I 'm trying to tell the children is that plants need water , it drinks up water in order to live . |
| 4 | It speeds up graphics applications by enabling X terminals to manipulate images locally , and includes image rendition facilities supporting bitonal , grayscale and colour images . |
| 5 | It 's beautiful sang Pink , how well it shows up Greg 's |
| 6 | However , the term ‘ disease ’ is slightly unfortunate in this context because it conjures up notions of a ‘ cause ’ that has little or nothing to do with the natural state of the organism but which is imposed on it , having a discontinuous effect ; as , for example , in infectious diseases . |
| 7 | First , the description of language as a code is too limiting if it conjures up analogies with signalling systems such as the morse code , or more widely with such systems of rules as the highway code or a legal code . |
| 8 | It conjures up images of Victorian family evenings round the piano . |
| 9 | It conjures up images of the old Nimble bread adverts with the girl in the balloon , or the bit in The Snowman where the kid flies over the coast . |
| 10 | Ironically , one graduate of the 1980s remarks , in the same publication , that she finds the idea of being called an embroiderer quite amusing because it conjures up images of the edges of tablecloths ’ . |
| 11 | For instance it buys up stock which is nearing its redemption date , so as not to have to make large repayments over a short period of time . |
| 12 | It creeps up insidiously ; it creeps up step by step ; and all of a sudden the unfortunate citizen realizes that [ freedom ] has gone … |
| 13 | Maybe it breaks up things . |
| 14 | IT TAKES UP GARDENING . |
| 15 | First , it takes up water and swells after ingestion so , taken before meals , it exerts a satiating effect and may decrease energy intake . |
| 16 | As a book on the history of men who went to war , it takes up Pieri 's challenge , and meets it handsomely . |
| 17 | He said it opens up Teesside as an area for inward investment from the NorthWest and Leeds and will help expand the catchment area for the new universities . |
| 18 | He said it opens up Teesside as an area for inward investment from the North-West and Leeds and will help expand the catchment area for the new universities . |
| 19 | It opens up opportunities to supply a wide variety of users with information which is timely , accurate , significant and relevant . |
| 20 | Reliable data to help to predict the spread of the HIV infection are seen as vital by the Department of Health as it draws up strategies for fighting Aids . |
| 21 | It throws up sprays of tiny , buttercup-yellow flowers in summer . |
| 22 | The left asserts that far from helping the poor it props up capitalism and embodies unacceptable forms of social control . |
| 23 | As the gas leaks out of the coiled chamber it picks up water and forms a mist around the singer 's head . |
| 24 | Rain is naturally acid , with a pH of around 5.6 ; as it falls it picks up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere , which dissolves to form carbonic acid . |
| 25 | It doubles up branch and conditional registers and integer and floating point units and a version of the PowerPC , derived from the design , is expected to execute up to four instructions per cycle , although whether those kinds of superscalar performances can often be achieved in practice will depend on how well the compilers are optimised for the new internal architecture . |
| 26 | The new Honda Accord will be launched in two weeks time and the company plans to increase the workforce as it steps up production . |
| 27 | I think it sets up Windows |
| 28 | It sets up health programmes to teach women about nutrition , hygiene and child care . |
| 29 | As the outcome bears no relation to either an efficient market or the declared aims of government policy , it sets up pressures for those who feel injured to seek political solutions , which mean greater government intervention and greater inefficiency — a treadmill with which I regret to say we are all too familiar in the United Kingdom . |
| 30 | Instead , it sets up shame , hatred and sometimes a complicated sexual response , which is not we want for our children . |