Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] up [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The saliva dries and hardens quickly and with repeated flights , the bird slowly builds up the line into a low wall . |
| 2 | The Acrylix brushes helped me to make broad , glazing strokes , slowly building up a depth of colour . |
| 3 | Having established the undercoat by way of washing and blotting onto damp paper , I now begin to apply very watery paint onto dry paper , slowly building up a series of translucent layers . |
| 4 | Having established the undercoat by way of washing and blotting onto damp paper , I now begin to apply very watery paint onto dry paper , slowly building up a series of translucent layers . |
| 5 | Van Dijk has analysed the language of racism , thereby building up a picture of modern ideology which pays particular attention to the way that elite messages can be transformed into ordinary discourse ( van Dijk , 1985b , 1987 ) . |
| 6 | Soldiers had since picked up the habit of wine-drinking in France during the war and upon returning to England had educated the middle classes , further increasing the popularity of Champagne in the immediate post-war years . |
| 7 | To get as close as possible to sea-dwelling fauna ( and perhaps pick up a crustacean for the lunchtable ) , take a short course in diving and snorkelling . |
| 8 | Ants , aphids and plants together make up a kind of farming economy based on sugar . |
| 9 | If we could precisely specify and conclusively verify every member of the set of observation statements which together make up the meaning of a non-observation statement , that non-observation statement would , in accordance with the verification principle , have its own determinate meaning and in certain circumstances be determinately true or determinately false . |
| 10 | She had long given up the tussle with French and lapsed into straight English ( which Therese , damn it , was supposed to understand ) . |
| 11 | Although the rules only allow the purchase of one new free-standing AVC policy a year , it is possible to purchase a different policy every year , so building up a spread of investments . |
| 12 | They were just two friends , enjoying the cool evening air , perhaps walking up a thirst before repairing to a beer hall . |
| 13 | These operate as discursive resources to be drawn upon and articulated in different combinations in particular contexts , thus constantly opening up the possibility of tension , inconsistency and contradiction within and between sites . |
| 14 | He had foolishly picked up the trolleys from a nearby supermarket and threw them . |
| 15 | After dinner we would gossip , play cards or perhaps walk along the Dee , idly picking up a piece of driftwood here and there along the way . |
| 16 | It also demands that someone is skilled enough to set up the stylesheets in the first place unless you want to stick with the standard set provided by Xerox . |
| 17 | That development entailed a recognition that the concentration upon language by the school of logical positivism , within which Ayer 's dismissal of religious belief emerged , might not so much show up the meaninglessness of theology as elicit its own particular logic Wittgenstein 's thought appears to show a progression from concentrating upon language in order to exclude certain forms of thought — as in Ayer 's exclusion of metaphysics — towards concentrating upon language in order to make sense of those different forms in a way that was sensitive to their particular nature . |
| 18 | ‘ The alternative proposal would only show up a handful of sites , not the 100,000 contaminated sites which we estimate exist in Britain . |
| 19 | The claims so built up the expectations for ZETA after the first conference that the subsequent news was perceived as ‘ failure ’ . |
| 20 | She 'd bent down to pick up the purchases at her feet , and as she rose again she 'd caught sight of a face she knew , looking straight at her through the moving mesh of people . |
| 21 | Christina kneeled down to pick up the handle of a cup . |
| 22 | ‘ Thanks , Mister Tom , ’ and he bent down to pick up the book with the marmalade cat in it . |
| 23 | If you read again the sections covered by the mnemonic MACRO , you will appreciate that the best effects are produced when you do not merely soak up the words of the textbook author , like some print-absorbing sponge . |
| 24 | Outlining the proposals , which will be put in writing to the Bank of England task force set up in to pick up the pieces after Taurus , Mr Pearson said the key point was that any new system should focus solely on the professional market — leaving the private shareholder with paper certificates and the existing fortnightly settlement system . |
| 25 | ‘ I believe someone comes in to pick up the post from time to time . ’ |
| 26 | But the Anglicans , like the Lutherans , did not suddenly give up the composition of Latin texts . |
| 27 | Part of the trouble lay in the German command 's ruthless system of keeping divisions in the line over lengthy periods , constantly topping up the losses with new replacements . |
| 28 | So you can , so if you feel that you 're a bit , you need a bit of practice in a certain area , you can literally look up the type of course that would benefit you the most . |
| 29 | To this it might be retorted that no-one linguistically advanced enough to look up a word in a dictionary could possibly require a definition of the word home . |
| 30 | Constantly turning up the pressure on suppliers to do even better makes doing business with carmakers tough ( see box ) . |