Example sentences of "[vb -s] up [art] [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The building , which faces west , lies below a turn in the Sacred Way which zigzags up the steep site to the temple , on a little terrace just above the south wall of the sanctuary . |
| 2 | This departure from the rigid procedures of experimental psychology sets up a radical challenge to the conventional discipline . |
| 3 | The Treasury is not a reactionary monolith , but the combination and interpenetration of the upper echelons of private financial capitalist enterprises and the Treasury sets up a formidable obstacle to radical change in the management of financial flows . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | The return pipe of the power filter can be inserted down the uplift pipe of the undergravel filter where the water flow pushes up the heavy mulm to the surface of the gravel , from where it is hoovered away . |
| 7 | The river exhibits some fine rapids and waterfalls as the road continues up the steep-sided valley to the hamlet of Ried and to the village which bears the valley 's name , Muotathal , which boasts a late eighteenth-century parish church with a particularly striking rococo interior . |