Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only gateway from the Walks was directly opposite the church , so that the Lassiters rarely walked up the village itself . |
| 2 | Opulent decors and images only point up the jadedness , and the tale of a deracinated interloper ( Beatrice Dalle ) caught up in family plotting at the chateau turns into a risible cross between Edgar Allan Poe and Homes And Gardens . |
| 3 | There is not only a form of filtering within homes of the rooms offered to those on income support , but homes sometimes put up a bar against those whose only contribution is up to the ceiling laid down by the Government . |
| 4 | St Tropez was known for its beaches , and normally she could spend hours just soaking up the sun and watching the other people parading , but she felt too unsettled to do much more than lie on her towel , playing aimlessly with the sand and trying to convince herself that she did not want anything more out of Piers than he was prepared to give her . |
| 5 | Plenty of gulls still kicking up a shindy . |
| 6 | Scramblers probably make up the majority of Munro-baggers , since to do them all you ca n't avoid scrambling , and will also be obliged to dangle once on the Inaccessible Pinnacle on Skye . |
| 7 | Is it connected with the variety of radical movements actually making up the counterculture ? |
| 8 | Ants , aphids and plants together make up a kind of farming economy based on sugar . |
| 9 | The Construction Ministry estimates that $5.3 billion will be needed over the next five years just to clean up the country 's water supply . |
| 10 | The fizz of 300 sparklers soon lit up the atmosphere , as across the darkened hall wailed the haunting sound of sitar ( played by Sikhs from Britain Sikh Human Rights Movement ) . |
| 11 | The upper classes rapidly gave up the struggle to maintain social exclusivity at the seaside resorts and fled to the Highlands , the Lakes , and eventually the Continent , to pursue their particular pleasures , unhampered by the proximity of their inferiors . |
| 12 | US troops later blew up the radio transmitter to prevent further broadcasts . |
| 13 | The application of towers dramatically broke up the monotony , as in Francis Thompson 's Chester General and P. C. Hardwick 's Royal Great Western Hotel , Paddington . |
| 14 | In the same way six women in the area got together 5 years ago to set up a project which would bring the women together to tackle their problems as a group , to teach them new skills which will help them find alternative sources of income . |
| 15 | As the positive part of conventionalism shrinks in practical importance in court , because there are so few occasions for judges to rely on law as conventionalism construes this , so this particular defense of the negative part becomes weaker , for the exceptions steadily eat up the rule . |
| 16 | This has two properties together making up a property complex ; each property is applied to the immediately adjacent subject of the sentence . |
| 17 | The alternative version has the same two properties together making up a property complex that is applied to the immediately adjacent subject of the sentence ; moreover in both cases the complex as a whole is assigned syntactically to the subject E ; the sole difference is in the matter of which property is taken as " senior " to the other within the bounds of the complex , as in ( 63 ) , and in such a case this will produce an infinitesimal semantic difference : ( 63 ) However this sort of syntactic trading is only possible where the language contains suitable lexical items ; it must have an adverb and verb with the appropriate meanings ; thus , in the absence of an adverb equivalent to after a change and a verb meaning to be orange , for instance , English can not offer such an alternative for ( 64 ) : ( 64 ) in spring , their skin turns orange 5.8 The range of verbs which can occur with postverbal adjectives is in fact quite wide . |
| 18 | Even unravelling the cause can be so time consuming that many managers merely give up the struggle . |
| 19 | What is more , the proprietors of seaside cafés and catering establishments actually take up the recipe and produce their own versions of it . |
| 20 | Had n't you better sit in your chair for ten minutes before clear up the lunch . |
| 21 | Mentioning leg ulcers often conjures up a picture of old ladies with large , offensive , discharging ulcers and nurses condemned to daily visits to change unpleasant dressings . |
| 22 | Nomads never gave up the fight , but had no answer to an Alresford side on top form . |
| 23 | Nomads never gave up the fight , but had no answer to an Alresford side on top form . |
| 24 | Pin or staple fabric in place and tie ribbons underneath to draw up the blind . |
| 25 | Shut up in the motor-home with Colin while the mechanics desperately mopped up the mess and changed the fuel bag , Emerson was reasonably sure he would n't be able to race . |
| 26 | These were innovated in the United States , where the innovating exchanges quickly built up a form of " first mover advantage " via endogenous economies of scale , which gave them an impregnable position in the market for their respective instruments within a very short span of time . |
| 27 | This linguistic strategy would not work if the term Americans automatically conjured up a picture of women . |
| 28 | These cell divisions simply divide up the egg to give a population of smaller cells that form the early embryo and are thus different from the cell division associated with cell growth and multiplication . |
| 29 | Nigel was looking forward to the occasion and Gina had promised to be especially nice and polite as long as she could have one of her friends there to make up a foursome . |
| 30 | On April 19 police forcibly broke up a demonstration by members of the Unmask 92 Descenmascaremos el 92 Movement opposed to the cost of Expo and its theme of celebrating the 500th anniversary of Columbus 's voyage to the Americas . |