Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [verb] up [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With rucksacks on their shoulders and clutching their weapons , the group of desperadoes trudged up the main coast road , clearly silhouetted by the headlamps of passing enemy traffic . |
| 2 | Lionello Venturi considered lives of artists made up a basic category of art criticism , buttressing his opinion with accounts of writings by Vasari and others . |
| 3 | Lastly , there are a number of differences between groups of institutions making up the monetary sector . |
| 4 | The Society of Authors set up a powerful lobby , which convinced a Parliamentary Committee that the common law of obscene libel should be replaced by a modern statute which afforded some protection to meritorious literature . |
| 5 | Often we have only fragments of bones to build up a mental picture of the final complete skeleton . |
| 6 | Contrary to one popular view , it is not the case that at the Kalmar plant each group of workers builds up a complete car from a box of component parts . |
| 7 | With his latest movie , Henry & June , Philip Kaufman slightly varies this mix of spices to serve up a soft-focus hash of Sex and Literature in Paris , 1931 . |
| 8 | And as six-month-old Farrah arrived back from Ireland with mum Bernadette and dad Shane , throngs of neighbours sent up a deafening cheer . |
| 9 | The knot of demonstrators summoned up a ragged cry and waved their tattered banners , but whether it was the sight of Edwina Currie or of Virginia Bottomley was not immediately evident . |
| 10 | The transferability and the value of the culture of higher education to society lie not in the acquisition of specific competencies , but in the propensity of graduates to take up a sceptical stance to what they come across ( in truth claims , in concept , in value , in ways of going on ) . |
| 11 | Rather in the same way that the mite of scabies sets up an allergic reaction , in certain people infected with candida an intense irritation occurs , which may be quite out of proportion to the degree of infection . |
| 12 | However , as the busloads of pilgrims trudged up the muddy paths to the whispered prayers ( ’ Our Lady of Ballinspittle sway for us ’ ) of the local inn keepers , the Bishop of Cork gave a lukewarm endorsement to the extent that it WIS no bad thing to see people praying . |
| 13 | In view of that stated aim , I was surprised to find no mention of Sherwood Idso 's claims that all of the fuss is a result of climatologists barking up the wrong tree , misled by computer models which are all making the same mistake . |
| 14 | Following his failure to grab a slice of Dan-Air , he announced that he is pressing ahead with plans to set up a small European airline if Virgin can get permission to fly from Heathrow to Brussels , Paris and Maastricht . |
| 15 | This was confirmed in April 1948. when ‘ it was agreed that Abdallah would control Arab Palestine if he did not interfere with efforts to set up a Jewish State . ’ |
| 16 | Messages IV suggested greater youth in its composer , Stephen Tittle , who used a sort of minimalism with interruptions to build up a spirited and engaging little number , though hardly one to overstretch the skills of Bob Becker , the percussionist this time . |
| 17 | When they finally caught up with the aftershocks of the mid-Eighties housequake , they immediately started looking for ways to whip up an old-style moral panic . |
| 18 | He then served on committees to set up a republican government and abolish kingship and the House of Lords . |
| 19 | The ability to build large glass display cabinets without frames opens up a new world of design possibilities . |
| 20 | The Japanese government still has some scope for measures to prop up the financial system , so there is little likelihood of a meltdown comparable to the American banking collapse in March 1933 . |
| 21 | To become a ‘ presence ’ for others opens up a new dimension of being , and at the same time we know the joy of God 's presence in our lives . |
| 22 | Since a very large amount of material was required on staffing , syllabuses and in some cases resources , it was easy for reports to end up a pure description of a department 's programme . |
| 23 | In Berkshire and Oxfordshire , for example , the cry of the " Church in Danger " was raised by some " hot heads " who feared the recent attempts by Nonconformists to set up a nationwide " correspondence " to pursue " the reformation of manners " was a plot against the Anglican establishment . |