Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] up [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 This definition , according to Schumpeter , is a summary or basis of a revised theory of democracy which is much truer to life and at the same time salvages much of what the sponsors of democratic method really mean by this term' Schumpeter builds up a definition of the modern political system in the West , which he claims ‘ to try out on some of the more important features of the structure and working of the political engine in democratic countries ’ .
2 Moving like the late Dick Emery in his ‘ Ooh , you are awful ’ guise , Standerline eats up the role of the camp gay explaining his troubled yet amusing life in brisk gag-heavy declarations .
3 The optimised X-Winserver speeds up the performance of X-Windows : DOS and Windows emulation facilities have been built into the kernel .
4 Far away from the great Victorian industrial districts , untouched even by the Midlands framework knitting industry , Northamptonshire conjures up an image of rural stability , great landed estates and ‘ close ’ villages .
5 The loss of McCoist opens up the possibility of Jess playing his first full international from the start , having been used as a substitute against Italy .
6 Ken McRobb rounds up the rest of the World Cup news .
7 With this paragraph in the preface to Newsletter Writing and Production Handbook for the Spirited Journalist , editor Alfonso B Deza sums up the philosophy of the handbook .
8 For example , Chafe sums up the expression of givenness as follows :
9 Hercules conjures up the image of a weight lifter .
10 ‘ … into the last furlong , and the Guppy looks beaten , Breakdancer takes up the running with Prince Charming on the stand side — it looks to be between these two — but now Shine On 's absolutely flying on the outside , a terrific challenge , the three locked together , Breakdancer and Shine On stride for stride , at the line it 's very close but I think it 's shine On who gets it on the nod .
11 The tyre keeps spinning , the revs remain skyward as Doohan shifts up a gear with the rear end still well out of line .
12 Lamborghini 's Diablo brings up the rear with 9 and 14mpg respectively .
13 With Mr Merchant 's assistance Stewart opens up the box of chocolates and offers me one with the hand that is n't attached to a pulley and the ceiling .
14 Maria ties up the contents in parcels , and ( I believe ) exposes them on the hillside like unwanted infants .
15 Paolozzi takes up the challenge with relish , as he deliberately creates hiatuses and breaks in The Wealth of Nations .
16 Mrs Carrington takes up the account from the time when her husband was admitted to the intensive care unit .
17 Every day , at 10am , Grachev picks up the telephone to Yeltsin and speaks for five minutes .
18 Julian gives up the hunt for that elusive pressing plant
19 MICHAEL ROBSON sets up a tank with an educational angle .
20 From his discussion of how such isolated clans as the Macraes , in such hollows of the world as Auchnasheal , repel all boarders , Johnson opens up a discussion of how mankind in this condition regulates itself .
21 Reacting with a positive touch Peter Jones weighs up the prospects for the Lib Dems , who meet in Dunoon this weekend
22 From Deleuze and Guattari , Lecercle picks up the idea of the potential violence of the institution of language which , as they point out , is not so much a neutral entity that can best be analysed by looking at " normal " ( i.e. declarative ) sentences as a series of other people 's slogans organised into a system of power-relations .
23 Joseph Rothschild sums up the effect of these events : ‘ Facts became taboo and suspicion pervasive .
24 It is by tiny touches such as these — though only a stylometrist would consciously notice them — that Jane Austen builds up the picture of one character 's clubbability , and the other 's insolence of rank .
25 Michael Barry conjures up the taste of the Deep South with Shrimp gumbo
26 The secondary difference between the two is that the dramatic context of King Charles opens up an elaboration of reference points which the simple game does not require . )
27 Tim Russon weighs up the odds in Friday Feature
28 Susan sets up a business on her own as a sole proprietorship and has the following balance sheet at the end of year one .
29 Parsons gives up the matter in disgust when Tottle fails to win the hand of the eminently eligible Miss Lillerton .
30 Paul Forster soaks up the peace of a Malaysian island ,
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