Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] up [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not surprisingly , for a country which is second only to Russia for the scale of its distances ( and second to no country but Norway on a per capita energy consumption basis ) motor fuels make up the largest element of oil consumption . |
| 2 | Lionello Venturi considered lives of artists made up a basic category of art criticism , buttressing his opinion with accounts of writings by Vasari and others . |
| 3 | If the retailer builds up a good relationship with his customers they will keep coming back — and maybe tell their friends . |
| 4 | Like many animals , birds build up a mental map of their home area from sight , sound and other cues . |
| 5 | In other words , the lights were off in the living-room except for the strobes around the disco where a lonely DJ was pumping out Frankie Goes to Hollywood , and all the guests at the party were in the kitchen cluttering up the fake oak worksurfaces and obscuring the Neff oven . |
| 6 | LEGAL peers renewed their attack on the Government 's plans to shake up the legal profession yesterday , when the Courts and Legal Services Bill had its second reading in the Lords . |
| 7 | The Royal College of Nursing is to lobby Parliament on 24 October in protest at the Government 's plans to shake up the National Health Service , the union has announced . |
| 8 | Thus David Reynolds and Christopher Thorne have resorted to such phrases as " competitive co-operation " or " allies of a kind " in their attempts to sum up the famous wartime partnership . |
| 9 | Between them Locke and Newton built up the mental picture of the universe which the educated classes in the eighteenth century absorbed as incontrovertible truth . |
| 10 | After consultation with the Leeds Permanent Building Society , the EOC drew up the following recommendations in respect of mobility : |
| 11 | The latter two are vital in controlling particulate ( soot ) emission , as burnt oil and sulphates make up a significant chunk of the black stuff that swirls away from the exhaust stack . |
| 12 | Bad luck on the Liberal Flemish Freedom and Progress Party ( PVV ) and the Francophone Liberal Reform Party ( PRL ) , who got left out and with a handful of other minority parties make up a discordant opposition . |
| 13 | Winds blowing over lakes pick up a tremendous amount of moisture which is then precipitated downwind of the lakes . |
| 14 | Mr Ishaq has also been at work on the Sindh assembly , in which Miss Bhutto 's supporters make up the biggest group . |
| 15 | Inside , the great piers curve up the interior space and emphasise the verticality of the design . |
| 16 | Bonuses make up an important part of their total annual earnings . |
| 17 | Six staff and one agent make up the full complement which , as Anders Falkman said , ‘ has strength in a team approach , it is all hands on deck and a good atmosphere ’ . |
| 18 | Chef turns up the racing heat |
| 19 | My dilemma points up a basic dichotomy in the educational aims of the school . |
| 20 | Erm and his claim that in fact the regional draft regional guidance er that has emerged is consistent with this alteration , is not really surprising since the same parties drew up the same document . |
| 21 | Carleton built up a sizeable estate in the eastern and midland counties , partly by inheritance , partly through the second of his three marriages , to Elizabeth Mohun , a Northamptonshire widow who brought him the manor of Overstone , where he mostly resided . |
| 22 | A room vine climbing up the old chimney-breast … |
| 23 | British car manufacturers built up an unenviable reputation over the late 1940s and in the 1950s in both respects [ Bhaskar , 1979 ; Pagnamenta and Overy , 1984 ] . |
| 24 | In this way Dr. Bach built up a complete medicine chest of thirty-eight flowers to cover all known negative states of mind . |
| 25 | The industry built up a new audience not by giving a social elite privileges but rather by suggesting that anyone who had paid their admission price would be given value for money and in particular would be given films that had been made with care and attention . |
| 26 | Indeed , " the main theme " of the book is the argument that the triangular pattern of cooperation between government and the two sides of industry built up a new form of harmony which lasted until the mid-sixties and led to the trade unions and employers ' associations being elevated to a new sort of status so that they became " governing institutions " sharing some of the political power and attributes of the state itself . |
| 27 | I kept seeing these double helices like two snakes winding up an invisible tree , only smaller . |
| 28 | Both eased their way to victory over Yorkshire and Surrey to set up a final day showdown . |
| 29 | Mr Bates , a local school governor , is a supporter of the controversial Macmillan City Technology College in Middlesbrough and is fighting his campaign on four main issues : law and order , the Conservative Government 's ability to lead the country out of recession , the Prime Minister 's commitment to the health service and his expectation that Langbaurgh voters will reject the plans of other parties to set up a regional assembly . |
| 30 | The three contending armed factions inside Liberia signed a ceasefire agreement in Bamako ( Mali ) on Nov. 28 , and a further agreement in Banjul ( The Gambia ) on Dec. 21 declaring their intention to set up a national conference within 60 days as a prelude to establishing their own interim government . |