Example sentences of "[verb] up [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A woman who found £40 on a bank floor has won a three-year battle to have it donated to a baby unit — and the bank has stumped up an extra £10 . |
| 2 | They were able to drum up a great deal of press and radio material on the sorry plight of British beer . |
| 3 | The Socialist leader took charge of the mandate after the conservative New Democracy Party , which fell three seats short of an overall majority in the general elections last weekend , failed to drum up the extra support it needed to create a minority administration . |
| 4 | Broker Cazenove , responsible for marketing the UK tranche of the share sale , failed to drum up the same level of enthusiasm exhibited in other centres . |
| 5 | Sure enough , I dived in the water , swam up the other end , and he came after me . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The Junkers , predictably , wanted none of this and their interests in the government , civil service and the military persuaded the government to continue shoring up the ailing Ost-Elbian estate system through continued tariff protection , artificially high grain prices and a policy of grants and loans . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They were talking about the House of Representatives at Weimar — ‘ That troublesome place ’ , as the T'ang continually called it — and about ways of shoring up the tenuous peace that now existed between it and the Seven . |
| 10 | But another thing is you see where Sandra lives , you saying that where she lives is apparently erm P C , now I do n't know him , but she does he lives up the same road and when people park did n't she tell you this when we were coming down ? |
| 11 | I could buy up the whole block . |
| 12 | The lock snapped and the detective levered up the bottom section . |
| 13 | When he heard of his army 's defeat he proclaimed a huge mushroom feast and ordered his shamans to brew up a fresh batch of Mad Cap fungus liquor for the Fanatics . |
| 14 | Back in November , Mr Bush got a rude shock when his ‘ Energy Strategy ’ ( which amounted to little more than building a few more nuclear reactors and opening up every remaining square inch of Alaska to further oil exploration ) got kicked out by the Senate . |
| 15 | Rock Around The Clock are showing some recession-defying ability by opening up a new store in Crouch End , London . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | What needs to be considered when opening up a blocked off flue ? |
| 20 | Britain 's Paul Curran escaped as the race entered Liverpool but after opening up a 10-second gap , he was caught by Illingworth , Australia 's Patrick Jonker and Denmark 's Kim Marcussen as they entered the circuit with 11 miles to go . |
| 21 | The whole of Havant 's operation has been spun off as a separate business , so Wilkie has to find outside customers for the plant 's mix of personal computer and mid-range disk drives ; integrated disk subsystems and ‘ flexible circuitry ’ expertise ( those plastic straps bearing solder tracks found when opening up a personal computer or disk drive ) . |
| 22 | ‘ But we have got to spend considerably more effort on opening up a two-way dialogue . |
| 23 | It is also opening up a rare advance in the ancient art of making metal alloys . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Fontenoy too was designed to be a watershed — washing away the detritus of the past , opening up a clear future . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Is he just opening up a bad |
| 28 | Referring to it as an artificial " pampered velveteen system " , the union journal was scathing about its " pretentions " : The small office in Edinburgh called the Caledonian Press … was opened a year ago , under the patronage of many of the nobility and members of the learned professions : yet with all its boasting about promoting the employment of women … and opening up a fresh field … to the " surplus female population " … it actually employs fewer women than any simple respectable milliner , of whose philanthropy the world takes little note . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The features cover everything from the environment to business , from shutting down a nuclear power station , to opening up a red-hot Mexican restaurant . |