Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] up [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bank , by rejecting offers at r 1 , is in effect reducing its demand for bills ( D 1 to D 2 ) , and thereby drives up the rediscount rate to r 2 . |
| 2 | ACT can also generate additional objects to create customised products — the group will ‘ effectively make up a bespoke product , assemble a bespoke suit to fit each client ’ . |
| 3 | Personal allowances , premiums and payments to cover certain housing costs together make up the benefit payment . |
| 4 | Malt , roast and flakes together make up the Guinness grist . |
| 5 | I remember the disgraceful way she allowed you to be neglected when you had flu , only bringing up a water biscuit or two when she deigned to climb the stairs ! |
| 6 | It is improbable that any of them will be healing up yet if they have ulcers and it is certainly too early to do any pond treatment , as this will only slow up the filter maturation process . |
| 7 | One can not suddenly scale up a laboratory procedure by a thousandfold . |
| 8 | Her life-long friend , Catherine Quinn , 23 , escaped serious injury because she had bent down to pick up a 20p piece , and she was flung over hand railings . |
| 9 | French plastic manufacturers and bottle suppliers have joined together to set up a recycling company , " Valorplast " , which intends to recycle around 1 billion plastic bottles by the year 1996 . |
| 10 | Barnet players have not been paid by the club for the past three weeks and , although the Professional Footballers ’ Association have moved in to pick up the £30,000 tab , £80,000 in promotion bonuses remains unpaid . |
| 11 | When Semple departed , Dalton Trumbo came in to build up the Dega character in line with the buddy-buddy movie trend . |
| 12 | More orthodox critics feared that he was only stoking up a consumer boom which would reap the whirlwind in a vast price inflation . |
| 13 | In many companies the normal management accounting system will only pick up a currency exposure when the sales entry has been made and by that time adverse currency fluctuations could have eroded or wiped out the profit margin . |
| 14 | The theme of Stalingrad was becoming rapidly a major embarrassment to the propagandists , especially those on the Wehrmacht staff , who had prematurely whipped up the victory atmosphere in September . |
| 15 | Human Touch ( Columbia ) is the worst : an hour of express-way roar with only the odd shift down to break up the nose-to-bumper raunch . |
| 16 | This has two properties together making up a property complex ; each property is applied to the immediately adjacent subject of the sentence . |
| 17 | The alternative version has the same two properties together making up a property complex that is applied to the immediately adjacent subject of the sentence ; moreover in both cases the complex as a whole is assigned syntactically to the subject E ; the sole difference is in the matter of which property is taken as " senior " to the other within the bounds of the complex , as in ( 63 ) , and in such a case this will produce an infinitesimal semantic difference : ( 63 ) However this sort of syntactic trading is only possible where the language contains suitable lexical items ; it must have an adverb and verb with the appropriate meanings ; thus , in the absence of an adverb equivalent to after a change and a verb meaning to be orange , for instance , English can not offer such an alternative for ( 64 ) : ( 64 ) in spring , their skin turns orange 5.8 The range of verbs which can occur with postverbal adjectives is in fact quite wide . |
| 18 | It is a clear indication of the quality of Vic Rouse 's goalkeeping ability that he succeeded the great Roy Bailey between the Palace posts , then went on to set up a club record 238 Football League goalkeeping appearances ( since exceeded only by the invincible John Jackson ) , and that it then took another goalkeeper destined for the 1st Division in Bill Glazier to oust him . |
| 19 | Where the road bears left continue straight on to pick up the coast path above Caerbwdy Bay — look out for the purple sandstone around the bay . |
| 20 | She could conceivably be denied by Kitrina Douglas , the winner of this season 's St Moritz Classic and European Masters , although even if she were to win each of the last four tournaments , she still might not make up the £30,000 deficit on De Lorenzi . |
| 21 | Jackie Gardner takes exhibits to horticultural shows all over the country and the nursery has just picked up a Gold Medal at Chelsea . |
| 22 | Yeah , try those for and er , I mean there , but there , they 'll go on to a similar any way , but just keeping up the enjoyment side and er |
| 23 | Compaq Computer Corp accompanied its new product blitz yesterday with the news that it will no longer publish suggested list prices for its machines in the US — but unlike IBM Corp with its mainframes , it 's not tearing up the price list . |
| 24 | The scheme was set up to encourage a broader section of the public to buy works of art by living artists , thus opening up the art market while at the same time helping artists to earn an income . |
| 25 | We will not give up the US customer base to anyone unless it 's done in a partnership . |
| 26 | as smokers but coming on to th the real point of the experiment was n't to look at fitness , and was n't just to set up a stop smoking project , but what I wanted to look at was whether people gain weight or not . |
| 27 | His eyes are already lining up the entry point as he begins to ease off the front brake and apply handlebar and footrest pressure to steer the bike . |
| 28 | Unlike everybody else , however , the hard man did not look up the neighbourhood exorcist in Thompson 's Local Directory . |
| 29 | Nigel Mansell showed today that he 's still out to win despite having already wrapped up the World Championship . |
| 30 | Nils had already opened up the engine compartment , which was directly below the deckhouse , and he and Iain were sitting on the floor with their legs dangling over the big diesel , going through a list of requirements he had produced . |