Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] up [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the retailer builds up a good relationship with his customers they will keep coming back — and maybe tell their friends . |
| 2 | Chef turns up the racing heat |
| 3 | My dilemma points up a basic dichotomy in the educational aims of the school . |
| 4 | Basic research takes up a tiny percentage of that life sciences budget . |
| 5 | Erm Freud 's hypothesis is that this religion left Egypt because of the persecution , Moses was one of Akhenaten 's followers who went out into the desert , erm here as I 'll explain in the lectures er some of my own research opens up a new angle on this that Freud did n't know about and why they went out into the desert , why they picked up these er Hebrew erm er immigrants who were living on the fringes of the Egyptian Empire . |
| 6 | The defender takes up a left fighting stance ( all combinations are best practised from the fighting stance , as this allows a greater amount of protection and freedom of movement ) and faces the attacker , who executes a front kick to the defender 's mid-section . |
| 7 | Being at the other end of an extremely hostile divorce suit can be a very nasty experience — especially when your expartner cranks up an aggressive lawyer to screw you . |
| 8 | To lend naive party cheer , the young American DJ whacks up the dry ice machine which spurts more of its obnoxious fumes into the heart of the room . |
| 9 | Chanel sums up the new colour and shape of accessories . |
| 10 | If you prefer to mount a stalwart defence you can wait behind long lines of hand gunners , massed ranks of halberdiers and hold important positions with volley guns while your artillery softens up the advancing enemy . |
| 11 | In it they asserted quite clearly that permitting divorce would certainly affect the stability of all Irish marriages because it rendered every Irish marriage dissoluble : ‘ It is as though the legal availability of divorce builds up a social pressure which , for large numbers of people , becomes stronger than moral or religious resistance ’ ( abridged version , Irish Times , 14 May 1986 ) . |
| 12 | Labour Party say they want to tackle crime in and we have , and I hope we will debate later on this agenda , the situation where a Labour Chairman of the Police Complaints Committee turns up a public meeting urging er law- breaking and support for people who are not actually gone to trial an a the circumstances of the events really does not concern us but it 's the fact that leaflets are now circularising this city , printed by our old friends , the resource centre , urging people to join the Defence Committee , which is supported by the University Labour Party , is supported by the West Labour Party and is supported by the Police Complaints Committee no less . |
| 13 | The plan clears up the legal wrangles set off by the federal government 's decision in 1988 to sue the state government over water quality in the Everglades , but leaves unclear many of the details of the clean-up . |
| 14 | The hall takes up the central bay through the two storeys ; the dining- and drawing-rooms are on either side . |
| 15 | Extensive use of the computer in project work opens up the further possibility of a computer-oriented career . |
| 16 | The passage sets up a straightforward opposition between what de Man calls " two apparently incompatible chains of connotation " : De Man 's claim that these poles enter into a system of exchanges and substitutions becomes an argument that this opposition " also contains statements claiming the priority of metaphor in a binary system that opposes metaphor to metonymy " ( 1979 : 62 ) . |
| 17 | Clothing sets up a hierarchical order founded on a father 's liking for a child . |
| 18 | Korah sets up an alternative people of God ( the Hebrew term translated ‘ company ’ in the RSV in verse 5 and beyond is the same as ‘ congregation ’ in verse 2 and elsewhere , which is used to refer to Israel as a whole ) . |
| 19 | Similarly , where Community law sets up a comprehensive system of health controls on export , as in trade in fresh poultrymeat , the importing Member State may no longer impose systematic checks on importation under its own law . |
| 20 | When an experimenter sets up a new group of hens they first fight among themselves . |
| 21 | Just to avoid confusion , the slave machine pops up a small banner at the top of the screen to let you know that it is being controlled from the other machine . |
| 22 | Wine bar cooks up a top award |
| 23 | If the core makes up a closed circuit as shown in Fig. 4.7(a) then l should be taken as the length along the dotted line and eqn ( 4.43 ) is still applicable . |
| 24 | Each Victorian town conjures up a distinctive image in one 's mind , an overall impression that blurs the differences that existed within a town between one quarter or district and another . |
| 25 | The surface of a warm , damp body takes up the wet-bulb temperature of the air around it . |
| 26 | ‘ Make sure that the old grandma keeps up a constant supply of hot water to keep the instruments clean . |
| 27 | Your opponent takes up a left fighting stance , that is with the left leg leading . |
| 28 | The placing of Becker and Stich in the same section of the draw throws up an intriguing quarter-final clash , assuming they justify their seedings . |
| 29 | The microphone picks up the surrounding sounds and feeds them to the amplifier . |
| 30 | The embroidery-edged bed linen picks up the delicate decoration as does the appliqué bedcover , while the plain brown walls add warmth and lend a strong contrast . |