Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [to-vb] up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's much more fun to go into battle with someone who 's fighting fit than to beat up a victim who 's languishing after a bout of disastrous presentation . |
| 2 | If that person dies the remaining friends are not sure whether to keep up the contact or not . |
| 3 | And in this case it is particularly acute because to set up a typology in which science correlates with religious moderation risks the objection that what one means by moderation is going to change according to political circumstances . |
| 4 | On these rested the employers ' capacity to break any strike , while the union 's strength lay in its capacity to " picket out " the vessels and shipping offices concerned and to dry up the supply of blacklegs by intercepting the trains on which they arrived and by organizing the ports from which they had been recruited . |
| 5 | ‘ We are aware there is a degree of anxiety among the public and so we have taken steps not only to contact those people concerned but to set up a helpline so any member of the public can ring in and have private counselling . ’ |
| 6 | Ramsay was apt to make his backgrounds neutral and to sharpen up the clarity of his designs to focus the viewer 's attention on the sitter 's face and hands . |