Example sentences of "[adj] [v-ing] up [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you consistently — and by that I mean once or twice daily — follow this waist plan you will feel and see a definite toning up of the whole line . |
| 2 | Tithonus creates a sense of emotional anguish by Tennyson 's use of inversion between lines five and six , ‘ Me only cruel immortality/consumes ’ : This breaking up of the main image of the poem suggests that Tithonus has been captured by immortality . |
| 3 | They spurn any subjective dressing up of the naked data . |
| 4 | There followed the annus mirabilis of 1889 during which , on Wilson 's later estimate , 130,000 members were enrolled in branches at 45 ports , a number representing , net of officers , engineers , cooks and stewards , " almost the whole of the seamen in the British mercantile marine " , though , he added with unusual candour , " it is true that they are not all paying up at the present time " , partly , it seems , because of the union 's policy of issuing " privilege tickets " involving no entry money or contributions until members could afford to pay . |
| 5 | Some staple foods had come off ration with the promise of more to follow , all adding up to a gradual end to austerity . |
| 6 | The Marquess of Salisbury had become Prime Minister in 1895 , and in 1889 his government introduced death duties which were to lead to the gradual breaking up of the wealthy estates , which previously had passed from father to son — or some other relative — without any loss . |
| 7 | But at the time of the Tughluks , when the gridded lines of now-collapsed rubble were bustling streets and bazaars , armouries and elephant stables , all rising up from the glittering waters of the lake , then the sight must have been breathtaking . |
| 8 | It covered all manual workers and those earning up to a given sum — 430 a year by 1942 . |
| 9 | What is more , any forecast about the way in which industry will develop within the United Kingdom and the European Community in the remainder of this century suggests that national prosperity will depend to an increasing extent on the successful skilling up of the national work force to meet the new demands that will be made by industry , technology , the professions and academia . |
| 10 | Heath and his colleagues next abolished the parliament and constitution of Northern Ireland in defiance of all Commonwealth constitutional precedent and despite the fact that the action was a unilateral tearing up of an international treaty registered at the League of Nations . |
| 11 | The royal couple 's individual humanity , rather than their status , has made most impact ; Charles 's unflagging curiosity , reports of Diana shaking hands with a leper in Indonesia , her instinctive picking up of an old woman 's dropped walking-stick . |