Example sentences of "up [art] [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Relieved , we leapt out of our sinking craft and dragged it up the beach to the waiting clothes- stand in the sand . |
| 2 | The bag is difficult to get a hold on , but eventually he manages to secure a line to it and troops back up the road to the waiting vehicles . |
| 3 | This position was also felt to have been influenced by the controversial decision taken by the Arab League Council in September to speed up the transfer of the Arab League headquarters from Tunis to the Egyptian capital Cairo , a decision first taken in March [ see pp. 37334 ; 37726 ] , and by the lack of large-scale Western aid to support domestic economic reforms and to compensate for serious economic losses forecast as a result of the Gulf crisis . |
| 4 | Picking up the feelings of the other person |
| 5 | Summing up the mood of the pro-reform lobby the NIAPA spokesmen said ‘ The next five years are going to be difficult but we must go onto reform if European Agriculture is to survive . ’ |
| 6 | One back-bench MP summed up the mood of the Scottish parliamentary party , saying : ‘ If he does n't make the grade by the end of the year then there 's no way I 'd vote for him again . |
| 7 | I stuck my nose in the beaker and hoovered up the aroma in the approved fashion . |
| 8 | On Nov. 13 Menem signed a decree for a sweeping new privatization programme , aimed at winding up the remainder of the public sector by the end of 1992 . |
| 9 | She threaded up the machine with the right cotton for her curtains , arranged the material in the right position under the needle , and began to turn the handle of the machine . |
| 10 | This cemented his place in the Test team , although it would be another year or so before he was given the new ball , and then it was just a question of piling up the scalps as the main strike bowler . |
| 11 | In words like ‘ potato ’ , ‘ tomato ’ , ‘ canary ’ , ‘ perhaps ’ , ‘ today ’ , the vowel in the first syllable may disappear ; the aspiration of the initial plosive takes up the whole of the middle portion of the syllable , resulting in these pronunciations ( where indicates aspiration ) : ; ; ; ; |
| 12 | In particular , as the discount houses were obliged to take up the whole of the weekly offering of Treasury bills by the Bank , the Bank could , by deliberately overissuing Treasury bills , leave the discount houses short of cash balances and force them to borrow from the Bank . |
| 13 | Delegated legislation , decisions of the courts , and changing administrative practice , amounted to a sluggish dynamic for speeding up the ability of the criminal justice system to respond . |
| 14 | Law 's campaign against Home Rule also brought the Liberal government face to face with power politics and showed up the hollowness of the reasoned optimism that underlay Edwardian Liberalism . |
| 15 | The milling throng immediately surged forward and began to scramble up the ramps into the spacious interiors . |
| 16 | Indeed those who drew up the blue-print for the Common Market in the 1956 Spaak Report sought to make available to Europeans those advantages so long enjoyed by US manufacturers in the USA 's single market . |
| 17 | To follow up the concern in the White Paper for the definition of levels of attainment , the government intend to introduce some kind of benchmark assessment , a point we made earlier , in an effort to improve standards . |
| 18 | They become the guardians of decisions , some of which accord with the criteria for units of goodness which make up the substance of the Created God , and can therefore become part of it . |
| 19 | Under preparation for three years , the bill set up the framework for the legal operation of private radio and television stations and for an independent public broadcasting system . |
| 20 | The question of the freedom to re-export the works of art was in fact the main stumbling block in drawing up the contract with the Spanish State in 1988 . |
| 21 | For women , who make up the majority of the increasing proportion of lone elderly people , there seems little prospect of an improvement in their economic position unless there is a considerable rise in the basic statutory pension . |
| 22 | This season of exhibitions promises a unique and long awaited opportunity to address , at first hand , the current concerns and practices of the women artists who have picked up the gauntlet of the conventional ‘ feminism versus modernism ’ polarisation . |
| 23 | Was he taking up the gauntlet against the subtle yet inevitable erosion such wealth would bring to the culture of his people ? |
| 24 | Alyssia was still feeling inordinately pleased with herself when , half an hour later , she picked up the telephone in the little village post office and dialled her father 's direct work line . |
| 25 | ‘ Best be movin , ’ he said and they swung open the gate and set off at a jaunty pace back up the lane towards the main road . |
| 26 | They sowed exotic grasses for their animals , built up the herds during the good years , when it rained , but then ( at least in some cases ) found that the grass was overgrazed in the drought years , when it failed to grow . |
| 27 | 4 Draw up the rules with the legal requirements in mind and make sure that everything is covered . |
| 28 | It is hardly surprising that the Largo of No. 88 , one of the loveliest slow movements that Haydn ever wrote , should encourage expansive treatment , but Kuijken makes it far too heavy , seriously holding up the flow of the great melody with overemphasis and exaggerated pauses , all made the more obtrusive without continuo . |
| 29 | The nation-state , therefore , is the spatial reference point for most of the crucial transnational practices that go to make up the structures of the global system , in the sense that most transnational practices intersect in particular countries and come under the jurisdiction of particular nation-states . |
| 30 | The crisis in the Gulf in the autumn of 1990 reveals once more how heavily the Western lifestyle rests on its ability to buy cheap commodities , backing up the rights of the sovereign consumer with gunboats ( or F-111s ) where necessary . |