Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] up the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Compact benefits students by offering them " value-added " jobs when they have attained their goals , and so opens up the realistic prospect of job satisfaction and career progression . |
2 | We were together all the time : played languid games of tennis on the court behind her house , swam , went on picnics , went for long walks up the lower slopes of Kinabalue , the mountain whose green and mauve shadowed mass loomed over Jesselton . |
3 | The Waterline , then , returns to its origins , as the case study which is Billy 's life painfully dredges up the first scenes of his disorder . |
4 | ‘ Qui plus fait , mie[u]x vault ’ ( ‘ Who does most is worth most ’ ) , the refrain in the Livre de chevalerie written in the middle of the fourteenth century by Geoffroi de Charny , the standard-bearer of King John II of France at the battle of Poitiers , who preferred to stand and die rather than run away in the moment of defeat , aptly sums up the chivalrous attitude to war . |
5 | The term ‘ royal forest ’ always conjures up the wrong picture . |
6 | But the latter were clearly hopelessly reductionist in relation to a concept such as this which at once opens up the possible significances of what was once merely seen as the aesthetic . |
7 | It always takes up the same number of positions in the file name , and that 's useful as you shall see . |
8 | Christmas time , when party-giving is on the whole overdone , may make the social aridity of the rest of the year seem almost attractive , but this exhausting seasonal overswill also points up the ordinary isolation that obtains for most of us nowadays . |
9 | Knox 's account of the bond and its aftermath compellingly conjures up the new spirit released by that small group in December 1557 . |
10 | This clearly sums up the Conservative attitude to taxation and , most importantly , it views the alleviation of poverty as part of an overall policy to improve prosperity for everyone . |
11 | Richardson is not uncritical of his subject or the paintings , particularly the blue period works , and certainly points up the variable quality of the paintings of the earliest years , where fully-fledged masterpieces were mixed in with hastily produced or rather gauchly sentimental pieces . |
12 | The provision of council housing therefore links up the second basis of local — newcomer conflict , which relates to broadly environmental issues . |
13 | It certainly freshens up the dusty atmosphere , and one can almost see the grass and leaves on the trees beginning to sprout . |