Example sentences of "up [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On March 2 Pedro Mendes Jurado became the new Attorney General ; he stated that he would step up the battle against terrorism and drug trafficking . |
| 2 | The first Tay Bridge showed up the lack of expertise and foresight required for such a structure , no wind tunnels or sophisticated testing were available to the engineers in the late 1870s . |
| 3 | An objection which has been raised by Jürgen Moltmann ( see chapter 7 ) and by others who have been concerned to set our present time in the light of the eschatological emphasis of the New Testament is that Barth and his allies in the 1920s who aimed to recover that emphasis in fact misinterpreted it by twisting it into the ‘ eternal moment ’ of the encounter between time and eternity , ; and that his mature theology distorted it in a-different but equally damaging fashion by swallowing up the whole of time and history in the central history of Jesus Christ , and by dissolving that away in turn in the eternal self-determination of God within the council of the Trinity to be ‘ God for man ’ . |
| 4 | The Supreme Council voted on Nov. 18 to introduce visa controls on the Estonian borders from Jan. 10 , 1992 , to " step up the campaign against crime and stop illegal migration into the republic " . |
| 5 | A Borderer from Melrose , he showed more interest in keeping up the rivalry between Highlander and Lowlander than in scoring off the Sassenachs , whom he was prepared to respect as competitors and , if they were good enough , business associates . |
| 6 | Although the addition of fibres is a fairly effective way of making these materials tough it does put up the cost of manufacture and it also restricts the number of applications for which they are suitable . |
| 7 | How many millions similar to him have given up the ghost of ambition or had it driven out of them ? |
| 8 | The garment was worn with an overdress or bed gown , bunched up the waist in front and falling behind to the hem of the petticoat . |
| 9 | I looked back up the wall in wonder and doubt . |
| 10 | As Coleman subsequently reported to Control , this pretty well summed up the relationship between Hurley and the spooks in Nicosia . |
| 11 | Well to make that sort of revenue they will actually need to fly rather more than two million passengers a year , and in the present state of the world aviation market I reckon that 's quite a tall order , in fact if they fell short of it by five percent in a particular year that would be capable of using up the kind of capital and reserves which we 've been talking about . |
| 12 | Well , the answer is pretty simple , you save the file , and you re-retrieve it , and when you re-retrieve the file , erm , it erases the memory to start with , and then erm , fills up the memory from scratch and if there 's nothing there any more , then it wo n't use any memory for it . |
| 13 | Well he 'd go , er we lived at this t time in Road , well you went up the top of Road and then you were across and on into Forrest . |
| 14 | The work of the symbolic , of the American television institution , in articulating this technical and imaginary possibility is to break it , interrupt , withdraw by separating the text into saleable parts , breaking up the promise of coherence and wholeness into short sessions , as it were , constantly jerking us out of the dream of coherent signifieds into the world of the endless play of signifiers . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'll go , ’ she said , and ran to the surgery to collect the bag , and to pick up the roll of towelling and a pair of scissors which Dr Neil kept for emergencies . |
| 16 | Philip picked up the roll of wire and nipped off a length with the cutters . |
| 17 | The remedial programme should aim to make up the deficit in primary and community health services in the capital , to bring them into line with national standards . |
| 18 | The communiqué outlined five principles for drawing up and implementing the five- and 10-year plans : ( i ) " firmly follow the road of building socialism with Chinese characteristics " ; ( ii ) " firmly push forward reform and opening to the outside world " ; ( iii ) " firmly implement the principle of developing the national economy in a sustained , stable and co-ordinated manner " ; ( iv ) " firmly follow the principle of self-reliance , hard struggle and building up the country through thrift and diligence " ; and ( v ) " firmly implement the principle of promoting both material civilization and socialist culture and ethics " . |
| 19 | At least a portion of the jewish population was saving its skin by allying with the Party , for in April we discover 400 Jewish delegates in Minsk speeding up the fight against Zionism and proposing the closure of their religious schools in Belorussia , a notion which had become a reality by September according to the central press . |
| 20 | He was amused to observe that she forced herself to be a blank when she picked up the bowl of pus and blood . |
| 21 | The exploration stage helps the client to open up the problem for review and then narrow down by focusing on issues that need immediate attention . |
| 22 | Today we can talk about sex without modesty or fear , but bring up the subject of death and you will be treated with the same social horror as if you had brought up the subject of masturbation at a Victorian ladies ' tea party . |
| 23 | Two medical doctors , Julio Bientz Saab , 42 , and Julián Arana Rosainz , 35 , were imprisoned for 12 and eight years respectively on July 9 for plotting to kill Castro by blowing up the Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery in the capital , Havana , where they both worked , on his visit in September 1990 . |
| 24 | And the challenge for the 1990s is to step up the right against lawlessness and violence , so that our citizens can live free from fear . |
| 25 | In time the development of the market would speed up the rate of urbanization and reshape the social structure , thereby undermining the traditional dominance of the Tsar and landowning nobility . |
| 26 | The physical stuff of the universe wraps up the earth with knowledge and communication , and the earth shrinks , and those who do not partake of the great secret growth are eliminated and shrivel away under the physical stuff that is knowledge and communication and wraps the earth with love , for nothing less than symbiosis will do . |
| 27 | Donna rubbed her eyes and got to her feet , picking up the piece of paper and putting it in her handbag . |
| 28 | Robyn picked up the piece of paper and tried hard not to believe he had made an effort . |
| 29 | Athelstan returned to the table , rolled up the piece of parchment and put away his quills and inkhorn . |
| 30 | Athelstan picked up the piece of parchment and the candle , scrutinising what he had written . |