Example sentences of "they [vb base] up their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tizard ( 1977 ) , whilst rightly arguing that new families need to be totally in control of the way they bring up their adopted children , is also prepared to concede that ‘ just as there are some couples willing to adopt handicapped children , others , especially if given the support of other adoptive parents , may be willing to adopt children who retain links with their natural families ’ . |
| 2 | The National Children 's Bureau 's parent education and support project identified a number of trends affecting parents in the 1980s ; for example , the pressure on parents as a result of our increasing knowledge of child development and society 's high expectations of the parental role ; the tendency for professionals to undermine parents ' self-confidence with their expertise ; the isolation felt by many parents with young children ; the need for information and knowledge , for social and practice skills , and for self-awareness and understanding of how their values affect the way in which they bring up their children ( Pugh and De'Ath , 1984 ) . |
| 3 | They bring up their kids to hate |
| 4 | The researchers are to examine more trees including four more species before they firm up their claims . |
| 5 | Then they tear up their L-plates and are out on their own . |
| 6 | By the time they make up their mind , the Chinese will probably be back to their old ways . ’ |
| 7 | To the places that had n't quite worked out the way the designers had planned , the places where kids drift in a city , where they make up their own version of the city . |
| 8 | They make up their — their decisions [ sic ] before that age . |
| 9 | They make up their mind whether they travel there and back each day or take or stay there . |
| 10 | It 's the old chaps in this country who get to pull on their boots and leave the women behind to a fate of wearing beige coats , having their hair permed and choosing a new tartan plastic cover for the Radio Times from the newsagent when they pick up their People 's Friend . |
| 11 | They can therefore be seen by most of the fans around them , especially when they hold up their arms to indicate that a chant is about to begin . |
| 12 | We ought not to admire them when they put up their fists and fight nor mock them when they are afraid and tell them they must be a man . |
| 13 | The extreme nature of the damage seen in the diurnal raptors is matched to a considerable degree in some of the owls , and both approach the degree of damage done by mammalian carnivores ( Fig. 3.4 ) , which have the added advantage of crushing teeth by which they break up their prey before ingestion ( Andrews & Evans , 1983 ) . |
| 14 | When not making deliveries , the intelibots wait in a parking area , where they charge up their batteries . |
| 15 | Men need , in effect , to say to each other , ‘ I authorize and give up my right of governing myself , to this man , or to this assembly of men , on this condition , that they give up their right to him and authorize all his actions in like manner . ’ |
| 16 | AT&T Co is happy to have the Baby Bells enter the long-distance market in the US on condition that they give up their local monopoly : AT&T also will lobby to eliminate remaining regulation of long-distance . |
| 17 | I know that 's difficult to provide erm , and the money 's got to be found for that , but it , it 's a mixed blessing putting elderly people into , a lot are put into our homes , which I agree are very good the majority of them , they 're very nice , but the people who 're put into them , they give up their own homes , and then they get a bit better six months later , and they say , ooh , I just want to go back to my home now . |
| 18 | they , they , they did n't pay it back they give up their land |
| 19 | They give up their weekends and their evenings and so on . |
| 20 | Taff and I watched fascinated as they set up their equipment , then started to dig a slit trench . |
| 21 | So they set up their own crisis counselling service to console the victims of battle . |
| 22 | They roll up their joints , smoke pot with their lunch . |
| 23 | However , if they keep up their current form they will finish in the bottom eight . |
| 24 | They sum up their view of the current state of research using predictive readability formulae in the following way : " Formulas do a job , but they leave a lot unexplained . " |
| 25 | Here most of the hills are rocky and small , but since they thrust up their shapely , jagged features from lochan-speckled moors , they create a presence out of all proportion to their size : sort of miniature weathered sandstone versions of the Torridon giants . |
| 26 | There is some professional resistance , in the sense that people who 've done a lot of work on programming get used to certain sorts of languages , and if you make proposals about teaching some new way of dealing with computers , they throw up their hands in horror , and object that this is going to be inefficient , or it 's not going to prepare people adequately for what goes on in industry , or whatever . |
| 27 | It is recommended that their training stretches over a period of about 15 months from the time that they take up their post . |
| 28 | They take up their posts in June . |
| 29 | The week-long camps are sponsored by Digital Equipment Company , and are open to students aged from 14 to 17 years to give them practical experience of the computer applications they will come across when they take up their careers . |
| 30 | Then they take up their positions , the reader going to the lectern . |