Example sentences of "up a picture [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This verve , this ambition and Jay 's laid-back curl of desire threw up a picture of Lucy as a B-movie dominatrix — but very , very civilised . |
| 2 | This meant that what the social scientist was doing in building up a picture of the political society was systematizing people 's conscious perceptions into a system . |
| 3 | Even though you might continue to build up a picture of the whole operation , it must be based upon an increasing number of assumptions — and assumptions might be wrong , with potentially catastrophic effects upon the correctness of your account of the family and its activities . |
| 4 | Detectives were interviewing the mother , who has asked not to be named , to build up a picture of the kidnapper . |
| 5 | Although it is often taken to imply that the citizen is entitled to ‘ social rights ’ , it does not immediately conjure up a picture of socialist collectivism which would alienate those on the right . |
| 6 | All this helps the researcher build up a picture of the socioeconomics of an area . |
| 7 | This type of sequence could be used to build up a picture of a patient suffering from a specific condition . |
| 8 | Many theories have been suggested and most back to the whale by the environment and any objects , such as fish , nearby ; the whale builds up a picture of its surroundings from these echoes . |
| 9 | This is a scaled-down version of what originally was to be an ambitious orbiting craft that would build up a picture of the planet 's surface using radar . |
| 10 | This permits them to build up a picture of how the weather is changing virtually anywhere on Earth . |
| 11 | From evidence such as this we can build up a picture of a society in which child mortality was common ; in which many of the children who survived their first year none the less died before they were twenty , as was still the case down to the early nineteenth century ; in which a serious famine or an outbreak of disease might rapidly depopulate a whole region — and yet in which the expectation of life of those who passed twenty was probably not sensationally lower than it is today . |
| 12 | This picture emerges from an analysis of 715 applications to join 3i 's management buy-in programme which has enabled 3i to build up a picture of the business experience and personal characteristics of future MBI managers . |
| 13 | Whichever point the patient selects , that is the age from which I start to build up a picture of the character . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The bald star had been left in tears earlier when fans jeered her for ripping up a picture of the Pope on a US chat show . |
| 16 | See if you can conjure up a picture of you being successful — what were the events , what were your thoughts and feelings , and what were you doing at the time ? |
| 17 | Reading this , I could have been forgiven for conjuring up a picture of the Queen Mother settling down comfortably by a television set at Sandringham , perhaps a daughter at her side , a corgi at feet and refreshment to hand , basking in the glow of my birthday tribute to her , and making a mental note to instruct the Private secretary in the morning to send a line of thanks to those concerned . |
| 18 | As I passed what had been the marshalling yard and sidings , I glanced at the rows of rusting buffer stops and rotting wooden buffer beams , and conjured up a picture of its lines of laden coal wagons waiting to be despatched and the coal empties waiting to be taken to the collieries to be filled . |
| 19 | If this is the same person as the author of the Gospel then it is possible to build up a picture of him . |
| 20 | It is valuable to collect information from the family network , and from involved professionals , as by weighing up and balancing different contributions it is possible to build up a picture of recent events to complete an assessment . |
| 21 | This linguistic strategy would not work if the term Americans automatically conjured up a picture of women . |
| 22 | It does take courage ( though perhaps not integrity ) to rip up a picture of the Pope on prime-time TV . |
| 23 | I was in no way offended , though , by O'Connor 's simple action of tearing up a picture of the Pope on television . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | By drawing together a variety of material , it builds up a picture of inequity which ‘ is inexcusable in a democratic society which prides itself on being humane ’ . |
| 26 | In the UK , with only around 100 TBs on the register , the phrase ‘ that fast French aeroplane ’ is much more likely to conjure up a picture of the faithful Robin DR400 , a lovely aircraft but one which is in an altogether different class . |
| 27 | However , the evaluators are not satisfied that they have built up a picture of library use which permits them to be confident in drawing firm conclusions about the project 's success in these terms . |
| 28 | It was more difficult — and more intriguing — to conjure up a picture of her future husband , Dom João . |
| 29 | At the opposite end of the spectrum , another solution is to excavate one large area without sections , but to build up a picture of the stratigraphy by recording the relationship of each layer to any adjoining layers . |
| 30 | As we have seen , this involves a considerable sorting of data in order to build up a picture of the site — to see , for example , what buildings existed there , and at what periods . |