Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] up [art] [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 | The airport already takes up a significant proportion of the island 's land area , and lengthening the runway will be difficult and expensive for the fragile economy . |
| 3 | Easy moves up a short arête lead off , and with the cliff being plumb vertical for 120ft at this point , the exposure is soon felt in both mind and arms . |
| 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 | This at once opens up a huge field of enquiry , but since our concern here is with literary theory , I shall restrict my discussion to structuralism 's contribution to the study of literature and , in doing so , unfortunately run the risk of understating the effects of the new pluridisciplinarity on the approach to literature . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 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 | Moving away from the house we have suggested turning the whole paving pattern at an angle and this immediately sets up an interesting shape , away from the building and fences . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It certainly freshens up the dusty atmosphere , and one can almost see the grass and leaves on the trees beginning to sprout . |