Example sentences of "[v-ing] up [art] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 24-year-old sweeper will lose three days ’ wages for deserting his father 's electrical business to take on the infinitely more difficult job of shoring up the leakiest defence in international soccer . |
| 2 | Just as many equality feminists opposed shoring up the traditional family at the beginning of the century , so present-day Labour has been challenged internally time and time again — and externally by the women 's and lesbians and gay liberation movements — on its sexual politics . |
| 3 | A mass of mail when I got back here — replies saying NO for example for the part time post of editor of the Episcopal Church paper up here and a NO from a firm opening up a new range of discount grocery stores . |
| 4 | Rock Around The Clock are showing some recession-defying ability by opening up a new store in Crouch End , London . |
| 5 | The only disappointment was that after opening up a 50-point lead at the beginning of August , they failed to win any of the next four matches . |
| 6 | These nine examples drawn from a vast literature illustrate many of the key issues of innovation : the importance of observant people , the value of experience , the linking of different technologies to turn failure into success , the need for perseverance , the contribution of group problem solving techniques , the potential for opening up a wide range of opportunities and for changing , even destroying , existing organizational and market structures . |
| 7 | It is also opening up a rare advance in the ancient art of making metal alloys . |
| 8 | The resulting product will enable HP 3000 users to run Progess-based applications unchanged on top of the AllBase/SQL relational database system , opening up a claimed base of thousands of applications from Progress Software 's 2,000-plus Software Partners . |
| 9 | Mark Breland took less than four rounds to come through the third defence of his WBC welterweight title yesterday in Tokyo , opening up a bad cut above the right eye of his Japanese challenger , Fujio Ozaki . |
| 10 | Most people go just that little bit too far , opening up a blessed margin of excess along which our wounded egos can scuttle to safety . |
| 11 | At a secondhand shop they bought him a pair of rather tight jeans and also acquired a metal detector , opening up a whole range of possibilities . |
| 12 | It was this — the politics of culture — that implicitly governed the Channel 4 debate , opening up a whole spectrum of discussion widely at variance with the concerns dominating White ( Western European and American ) feminist film theory . |
| 13 | Here Barnett is opening up a whole store of perceptions , aims , and criticisms which marked out important features of the class relationship in the period ( and which were also relevant to age relations ) , such as the alleged pauperization of self-respect among the poor ; their grasping of excitement ; and the superiority of middle-class culture which made contact between the classes so crucial . |
| 14 | In 1985 a similar change enabled societies to pay interest gross on Eurobond issues , opening up a further source of wholesale funding and reflected in the sharp rise in the ‘ other ’ liabilities column in our table . |
| 15 | In fact er just before I retired they were saying , you know , my job 's obsolete and that , and then and says oh we 're opening up a big depot in Japan . |
| 16 | McClure was in his usual brilliant form opening up a 7-1 lead after five ends and then extending that to 14-3 at the halfway stage . |
| 17 | In this chapter we will channel our energies into opening up the contradictory facets of our personalities and explore the different voices , different tones of voice , that these contradictions make available to us . |
| 18 | It does , however , make it more likely to happen , and facilitates this by opening up the political space in which local differentiation can occur . |
| 19 | However he ruled out opening up the political system to a number of parties , insisting that national unity must be achieved first . |
| 20 | As Hennessy was opening up the grey lockers at the end of the room , Donaldson spelt Bobo again . |
| 21 | Pioneering scientific work is now opening up the immense diversity of sensory worlds experienced by other creatures : extraordinary worlds which we may never be able to enter , but which we can at least start to appreciate through our awareness of animal " supersenses " . |
| 22 | Her sheer emotional and physical energy nevertheless took its physical toll , and at various times in her life she abused alcohol and drugs as well as notching up a significant number of car accidents of varying degrees of seriousness . |
| 23 | So I am encouraged in my perhaps natural naïveté , I am encouraged to be simpliste , by my knowledge of the value of complication in fogging up the real issues in politics . |
| 24 | This superb sum was the result of members and friends keeping up a daily supply of super baking . |
| 25 | With a deep breath , Ace slipped out from behind the rocks , and ran in a crouch down the length of the wall , keeping up a steady rate of fire from her gun . |
| 26 | But it quickly re-formed in 1897 to challenge fresh regulationism introduced into India , keeping up a constant barrage of propaganda against any return to compulsory medical inspection and detention of prostitutes at home . |
| 27 | Cook drove clumsily , keeping up a constant stream of chatter . |
| 28 | She chatted on , keeping up a constant barrier between them , all the way out to the car park , and when she was securely belted into the passenger-seat she fiddled with her gloves and gave a deliberate yawn . |
| 29 | The soft drinks sellers tapped out rhythms on the sides of their coolers with bottle-openers , keeping up an incessant chant of Peps , Peps , Peps , although Pepsi was the one drink that none of them had . |
| 30 | Consistently keeping up an outward appearance of beauty can be a strain , and even a repression of other forces which need expression . |