Example sentences of "it [vb -s] up [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | doctrine of original sin under the guise of a genetically determined bio-grammar of cultural values , by colleagues who would clearly like to think of themselves as hard-boiled scientific rationalists , both amusing and disconcerting ; but it points up the difficulties of the problem ! |
| 2 | The programme does not apportion blame , or claim a conclusive link , but it points up the lack of long-term monitoring on people working with the chemicals , and suggests warning labels on the products do not always make clear what type of protective clothing is suitable . |
| 3 | It points up the importance of admissions , and suggests that the assessment of a course may ‘ wash back ’ on its content and aims . |
| 4 | I mean I think the first is that the kind of evidence one picks up , none of it on its own can be considered , I think , to be totally objective or totally valid , but what it does is it builds up a part of a picture and gradually different sorts of evidence build up a rather more complicated , rather more perhaps accurate picture of a situation , and it 's really the cross-checking of different kinds of evidence that in the end gives the thing some kind of validity . |
| 5 | Over the summer it builds up a surplus of fat and as autumn draws on it returns to an underground burrow . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | It builds up the foundations of the grammar system and essential vocabulary , as appropriate to the learner 's needs at this level . |
| 8 | An onshore wind will also be difficult since it builds up the waves into difficult chop which can break on the beach with mast-breaking force . |
| 9 | Sometimes a mass of viscous lava gets intruded near the surface , but does n't actually manage to break through ; instead it forces up the surface of the ground on top , forming a considerable hill where there was no hill before . |
| 10 | For it cuts up the grass like farmyard manure , it chops it up you see and it rots quick and makes the grass grow quicker . |
| 11 | And it cuts up the grass in wee bits and instead of er making the roads better it makes them worse . |
| 12 | The natural way to interpret the EPR experiment is not that it shows up the incompleteness of quantum theory but that it manifests the falsity of naive locality . |
| 13 | It conjures up a vision of a large , appetizing meal , around which the whole family gathers , to share food and conversation in an especially leisurely way . |
| 14 | It conjures up the picture of an omnipotent and independent sovereign — the image actively cultivated by the ideology of Tsarism . |
| 15 | It gathers up the movement of the house as we pass from kitchen to living room or dining room , or kitchen to bedrooms . |
| 16 | this bloke and his bird , right , and then ahead would n't like it clears up a bit in , in the Blackwall tunnel but it 's still like sort of five yards in between each car and he 's just like moving from lane to lane without signalling or anything |
| 17 | This tactic does sometimes work , but it 's quite risky for Orcs because it ties up a lot of character points which you could well use elsewhere . |
| 18 | One eye shifts right round the body so that it takes up a position alongside the other . |
| 19 | I mean , if you 've got a fuzzy-sounding guitar running through everything it takes up a lot of space in the mix . |
| 20 | It is n't a large place , but it takes up a lot of your time . ’ |
| 21 | But anyway I know it takes up a lot of time and a lot of our columns . |
| 22 | Larkin 's poem complains in concert ; it takes up the question of what it is to be sexually debarred . |
| 23 | It takes up the concept of ‘ covenant ’ already familiar in the ancient world . |
| 24 | That itself should n't er impose er any greater cost on auditors , but it should , and this is the crucial point I think , it should bolster the ability of auditors to insist that their client companies er are forthcoming and open and where necessary correct if they can er problems which might otherwise bring their authorised status er into question and therefore it is a welcome enhancement of the law , it toughens up the law without imp imposing the costs about which he 's rightly concerned . |
| 25 | ‘ It opens up a wealth of exciting new opportunities . |
| 26 | It opens up a lot of interesting possibilities for the crack , most of which involve adopting a fake French accent . |
| 27 | It opens up the possibility for a male to come along and displace or remove the sperm stored from a previous mating . |
| 28 | Its value lies in the way it opens up the issue for reasoned discussion . |
| 29 | Pursued further , as a form of enlightenment and emancipation , it opens up the possibilities of critical self-reflection , of seeing one 's central pursuits in a new perspective . |
| 30 | He goes in , he trips the toggle , the toggle jiggers the trapeze , the trapeze lets go the springy pole , it whips back , it pulls up the door to the basket … the big fish is the prisoner now . |