Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] up [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this way , these researchers built up a picture of life styles in Chicago at that time , especially those of certain deviant groups such as hoboes and gang-members . |
| 2 | Science is a collective enterprise ; over time , researchers build up a body of wisdom which tells them which are the important variables to include when modelling a particular process , and which must be controlled . |
| 3 | my three wishes sucked up a chimney of flame . |
| 4 | A well-known example is the motif in Schubert 's Erlkönig , which combines perfectly with the dashing octave triplets to conjure up a picture of the father 's wild gallop , with his dying son in his arms : |
| 5 | Newman in one of the Tracts for the Times drew up a form of service , to be used on the anniversary of Ken 's funeral , whose central message was ‘ He gave to Caesar the things that be Caesar 's and to God the things that be God 's . ’ |
| 6 | Convinced , and quite rightly , that nothing had or would come of Napoleon III 's attempts to drum up an alliance with Italy or Austria-Hungary , dismissing such a possibility as ‘ idle gossip ’ , the Prussian Chancellor prepared to spring his trap . |
| 7 | Two skimmers to pole and bloodworm tactics made up the bulk of his 4–1–3 winning weight , pipping England international Alan McAtee ( Elton Tackle ) on 3–13–8 . |
| 8 | A flight of steps led up the mound to the base of the figure . |
| 9 | Animals make up a category of painting with an uneven reputation , though the theme is one of obvious importance and interest in sculpture . |
| 10 | In 1989 , the United Nations drew up a convention on these rights , signed by 74 countries . |
| 11 | In 1848 , Engels had viewed Europe as a general , deploying as his armies subject peoples to lock up the gendarme of Europe , Tsarist Russia . |
| 12 | Many of the owners had once been renters , thus , suggesting a pattern where young migrants , who can not afford land or property rent until they have sufficient savings to set up a home of their own . |
| 13 | The question of ratification of treaties with Western nations opened up a gulf between the Bakufu and an imperial court whose nominal supremacy Tokugawa enemies were beginning to realize could be fruitfully exploited to the regime 's disadvantage . |
| 14 | A large percentage of recent spring birds have been recorded in parties flying up the Channel during the offshore movements of ducks , waders and terns , which are such a feature of spring migration in Sussex . |
| 15 | Apathy is usually ascribed only to one side — the parents — and that is sometimes thought to give a sufficient reason for teachers and schools to give up the struggle of recruiting them as allies . |
| 16 | The time was now about nine-thirty , and I must have looked ghastly , for a young nurse who popped in with a set of pyjamas sized up the situation in a second and popped out again , running down the corridor calling for help . |
| 17 | In 1889 the NAS&FU 's instruction to its members not to sign on with any company until all Liverpool shipowners had acceded to its demands stiffened up the resolution of the thirteen principal lines affected . |
| 18 | Administrative support posts are becoming increasingly attractive to men and this broader approach to the core subjects opens up the market of applicants to both sexes who wish to work as part of the executive office management team . |
| 19 | The simplest way of changing scenes is , simply , to cut : but this is often rather drastic , and risks breaking up the flow of the film . |
| 20 | The words set up an echo in Lorton 's mind : he remembered Sue 's death , and the doctor saying , She ca n't tell us what the problem was now , Mr Lorton . |
| 21 | In a fiery speech at the " peace summit " on May 24 , the king had warned the ANC against verbal attacks on his people , which he called " killing talk " , and said that he would not acquiesce in demands to give up the bearing of traditional weapons . |
| 22 | The departmental appraisals took up the bulk of the self-evaluation report . |
| 23 | A dozen books took up the space of three dozen nomes , and while Grimma privately thought that some of the books were more useful than many of the nomes , she 'd accepted Dorcas 's promise that they would come back , one day , and try to retrieve them from their hiding place under the floor . |
| 24 | The Department of Transport should ‘ take immediate steps to speed up the rate of progress of road maintenance research , ’ the MPs said . |
| 25 | The method adopted by larger animals to speed up the distribution of essential materials is to force carrier-fluid through transport systems . |
| 26 | Alcohol-soaked cherries sum up the bouquet of this unusual Dornfelder . |
| 27 | Therefore , these two speeches sum up the difference between Brutus and Cassius : Brutus works unselfishly and nobly for the good of the people of Rome , disregarding personal cost ( for it did cost Brutus a lot to kill Caesar ) , while Cassius is jealous of Caesar 's great power and begins the conspiracy with hopes of gaining more prestige and power for himself . |
| 28 | 6.7 The thing which all the adjectives of the sort found in ( 33 ) have in common is that on the intensional level they qualify the relation between the entity identified by the noun phrase in which they appear and the description supported by the words making up the remainder of that phrase . |
| 29 | Members of seven parties making up the Union for Democratic Renewal ( URD ) , a newly formed opposition alliance , refused to join the government . |
| 30 | Jacques 's famous Principes summed up an era of flute playing , presenting a retrospective view , in a way comparable to the methods of Corrette ( c. 1734 ) , the first method for the four-piece flute , and that of Devienne ( 1795 ) , the last significant French method for the one-keyed flute . |