Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [verb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Middlesbrough Town Hall RIDE grew up a lot in public in 1990 a year when bands like themselves and the Charlatans made it very big , very quickly . |
| 32 | On the 42nd lap Levagh came up the straight between the grandstand and the pits in his silver Mercedes at about 240 kph ( 150 mph ) and was being followed by Fangio . |
| 33 | Three pairs of navy wool socks and a white-spotted red cotton scarf made up the total . |
| 34 | He , they were late to bed I 'd had them erm round at the shops and then er er Queensway , then the shopping centre to pick up a card for for Chris . |
| 35 | More than 1.5 million calls have swamped a free telephone bank set up a month ago by his employees to sign up volunteers . |
| 36 | ‘ NO OTHER PLACE in the UK can lay claim to so much aeronautical history , ’ was how Sir Peter Masefield , Chairman of the Brooklands Museum Trust summed up the status of the famous site at the ‘ launch ’ of their 1992 season plans . |
| 37 | It is hardly an exaggeration to say that by delaying tactics the Home Office held up the legislation by more than twenty years . |
| 38 | The lowest level of index records makes up the sequence set , and in this case the pointers are to control intervals ; the total number of control intervals indexed by one index record makes up a control area . |
| 39 | Our perception of spermatozoa was changed forever by Woody Allen 's impersonation of one in Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex , and University of Pennsylvania are giving substance to his fantasies , putting the poor little tadpoles through an arduous obstacle course to step up the process of survival of the fittest : according to Prodigy Services Co , the mad scientists have created a new class of silicon chip that can be used for analyzing sperm samples and providing a venue for fertilisation ; the technology uses microscopic obstacle courses inside a silicon wafer to weed out unhealthy sperm , and has been used successfully to fertilise a mouse egg ; the chips are etched with a virtual theme park of twisting channels , forests of columns , and other features designed to ensure only the strongest of sperm reach their goal , with some passages so small that only a single cell can pass ; the researchers have not yet applied for approval to test human fertilisation using the chip , but say that could happen within the next 12 months — Brave New World , or the embodiment of virtual sex . |
| 40 | Routine thinking throws up no ideas about how to work on or round or against a seemingly impossible situation — which reaffirms powerlessness . |
| 41 | The amp 's master volume pot , headphone socket and mains switch make up the remainder of front panel controls . |
| 42 | This inelegant but graphic import from American business vocabulary sums up the relevance of finance to the building surveying practice . |
| 43 | ‘ The lil ol boy turned up a bit quick : he come jus in time to hev a slice of his mother 's wedding cake . ’ |
| 44 | I could n't wait to finish at the studio that day so I could slip down the record shop to pick up a copy , and several months later I still have n't stopped playing it . |
| 45 | Super disk copier speeds up the operation of duplicating a master disk many times . |
| 46 | It could only be left to each Group Organiser to weigh up the pros and cons of the situation . |
| 47 | On command , a wave of tube inflation rises up the tights from ankle to thigh , squeezing the vein-blood in front of it . |
| 48 | Respect for product in the form of dramatic production became eroded and , regrettably , those who believed in the value of drama as a community enterprise gave up the struggle . |
| 49 | Erm , the buy who was gon na do it , unfortunately has eye trouble and er towards the beginning of the start , quite near to the start his er eye trouble picked up a lot more . |
| 50 | Clicking on an object with the right mouse button brings up a menu listing all the things you can do to it — a feature first seen in Borland 's Quattro Pro for Windows . |
| 51 | The Evening News summed up the affair by calling for greater public vigilance to root out the canker of immorality : ‘ England has tolerated the man Wilde for too long … he was a social pest , a centre of intellectual corruption … who attacked all wholesome , manly , simple ideals of English life . ’ |
| 52 | The Edinburgh Evening News picked up the point during the dispute and commented that " the old story of the men 's dislike to machinery appears in this dispute just as it was with the engineers " , 25 Whatever the reason or reasons , the men 's unwillingness to handle the machines led directly to the situation of the late 1900s in which Edinburgh master printers were trying to counter the threat of London and southern firms by combining both the employment of women and the use of machines , thus posing a double threat of a new kind to the male compositor , and inspiring a more determined resistance from the latter than had been seen during the previous thirty-odd years . |
| 53 | Teachers should be aware , particularly of that aspect , I think , because phonic method is very often used in schools , by which I mean that the teacher wil hold up a flash card , and on it would be a pair of letters , say , suppose for example sh the teacher will hold up a large card with sh on it and will say to the class ‘ this is shuss ’ and the children will all say shuss whenever this card is held up — that 's fine , but the dyslexic pupil may not be seeing sh in the same way that the other children are . |
| 54 | A hall , lounge , kitchen , dining area , three bedrooms and bathroom/ w.c. make up the accommodation . |
| 55 | A SIDA report sums up the crisis : |
| 56 | Certainly the kind of modern-day would-be Kerouac who survives entirely on the proceeds from trading-in free albums and indulging in the fine art of ‘ ligging ’ — tagging along to any show in town where the record company picks up the catering bill — is not extinct . |
| 57 | Inside the panelled room Buckmaster picked up a malacca cane , pointed to the wall over the fireplace . |
| 58 | The article in the Evening Standard takes up the issue in the same vein . |
| 59 | Two years later , the War Office picked up the idea and soon the system was adopted by the army and navy . |
| 60 | Peter Brachaki 's TARDIS control room set made up the bulk of the design requirements , leaving Cusick only with the task of constructing two dormitory rooms . |