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 Sure enough , I dived in the water , swam up the other end , and he came after me .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 I could buy up the whole block .
9 The lock snapped and the detective levered up the bottom section .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 Rock Around The Clock are showing some recession-defying ability by opening up a new store in Crouch End , London .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 What needs to be considered when opening up a blocked off flue ?
17 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 ) .
18 ‘ But we have got to spend considerably more effort on opening up a two-way dialogue .
19 It is also opening up a rare advance in the ancient art of making metal alloys .
20 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 .
21 Fontenoy too was designed to be a watershed — washing away the detritus of the past , opening up a clear future .
22 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 .
23 Is he just opening up a bad
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 The features cover everything from the environment to business , from shutting down a nuclear power station , to opening up a red-hot Mexican restaurant .
27 It was this — the politics of culture — that implicitly governed the Channel 4 debate , opening up a whole spectrum of discussion widely at variance with the concerns dominating White ( Western European and American ) feminist film theory .
28 Here Barnett is opening up a whole store of perceptions , aims , and criticisms which marked out important features of the class relationship in the period ( and which were also relevant to age relations ) , such as the alleged pauperization of self-respect among the poor ; their grasping of excitement ; and the superiority of middle-class culture which made contact between the classes so crucial .
29 You may find yourself opening up a whole new world of exciting foreign contacts which could , eventually , lead to some charming holidays .
30 You 're opening up a whole new can of beans as to why he married this young kind of Lolita-ish girl .
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