Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] up a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I kept seeing these double helices like two snakes winding up an invisible tree , only smaller . |
| 2 | In these 239 murals , covering a surface of 1,585 square metres , there are traces of many influences making up a popular and forceful imagery : ‘ The codices , pre-conquest sculpture , popular art , the study of living people , the colour of nature as well as the paintings of the misnamed Italian Primitives , together with the modern artistic tendencies to which Rivera himself had contributed during his stay in France , all went to form his own peculiar style , which is apparent for the first time in these frescoes . ’ |
| 3 | There is evidence of Roman traders setting up a depot near Braughing , using the River Lea as the transport link with the Thames . |
| 4 | One gentleman , who has not actually seen the apparition , has on several occasions heard footsteps walking up a stairway in the station . |
| 5 | The man 's hair mass rocks back and forth on his rigidly stationary head like a wildly excited toupee and is only matched for unusual activity by his furiously trembling eyebrows and the cracked black toe-caps of his shoes moving up an down like wasps ' abdomens about to insert their stings . |
| 6 | This theory seems to me the most sophisticated method at present available of conceiving the relationship between musical forms and practices , on the one hand , and class interests and social structure , on the other ; more sophisticated , say , than the theories of homology put forward by some ethnomusicologists and subcultural theorists , which suggest the existence of structural ‘ resonances ’ , or homologies , between the different elements making up a socio-cultural whole. ; Such theories always end up in some kind of reductionism — ‘ upwards ’ , into an idealist cultural spirit , ‘ downwards ’ , into economism , sociologism or technologism , or by ‘ circumnavigation ’ , in a functionalist holism . |
| 7 | These include the spatial or temporal intervals between the elements making up a display ( Kimura , 1969 ; Hines and Satz , 1971 ) , the distance of stimuli from fixation ( Bryden , 1966 ; McKeever and Gill 1972c ; Carmon and Nachson , 1973 ; Curcio , MacKavey and Rosen , 1974 ) , the spatial frequency of the stimulus ( Rao , Rourke and Whitman , 1981 ) , the directional characteristics of words and letters ( Harcum and Filion , 1963 ; Bryden , 1966 ; 1968 ; White , 1969b ) , the number of times a stimulus is presented ( Hardyck , Tzeng and Wang , 1977 ; 1978 ; Schmuller , 1980 ) , exposure duration ( Bryden , 1965 ; Gill and McKeever , 1974 ; Beaumont and Dimond , 1975 ) , stimulus size ( Pring , 1981 ; Pitblado , 1979b ) , typeface ( Bryden and Allard , 1976 ) , complexity ( Fontenot , 1973 ) and discriminability ( Patterson and Bradshaw , 1975 ) . |
| 8 | Other key measures in the Queen 's Speech will be Bills setting up a national lottery ; ratification of the Maastricht treaty on European economic and political union ; and legislation paving the way for the privatisation of British Rail and the coal industry . |
| 9 | Implementation of the Eleventh Company Law Directive will add further complexities to the law relating to disclosure of information by foreign companies setting up a place of business in the UK , according to the Institute 's Company Law Sub-committee . |
| 10 | As the factory operates on shifts throughout every 24 hour period , there are always more workers building up a hunger and thirst . |
| 11 | A friend of mine in her late thirties has spent the last five years building up a successful business . |
| 12 | The proprietor has spent years building up a remarkable cellar of aged Riojas , which lie side by side with the best that Burgundy and Bordeaux have to offer . |
| 13 | You are n't seriously suggesting he might have spent fifteen years building up a simpleton 's profile , in case it would come in handy if ever he wanted to commit a crime ? ’ |
| 14 | Drs Anthony and Maggie Barker , average age 70 years , spent 30 years building up a medical service in rural South Africa . |
| 15 | But having spent many years building up an effective distribution network , we see no reason why this network should be given away to our competitors . |
| 16 | The Gloucestershire company has spent the last five years building up an export market in America with department stores now taking their products . |
| 17 | After six years working up a polished stage show and building a loyal fan base , she 's all too aware of the scene 's limitations . |
| 18 | Food at Greenways is wholesome , fresh and plentiful ( Jill and Mike count on their guests working up a good appetite from walking ) with herbs and vegetables from the kitchen garden . |
| 19 | There is nothing uglier than a redundant ski-tow out of season , with its pylons marching up a scarred , broken hillside . |
| 20 | The statisticians and historians will have to cut through all this and the added confusion of teams moving up a division without being promoted . |
| 21 | Dr Paul Hansma and colleagues at the University of California at Santa Barbara have already produced AFM pictures of individual amino acids making up a peptide chain . |
| 22 | Without warning a big estate-car swung round a bend in the lane , its wheels throwing up a shower of mud and water . |
| 23 | The fact is , I work in the National Health Service , and regardless of what the media or politicians may say , the reforms are costing millions of pounds setting up a system which is not working . |
| 24 | The court has been today hearing evidence from witnesses building up a picture of what the who defendants were doing in the hours before the alleged abduction of James Bolger . |
| 25 | The Lloyd Baker estate is a few streets of plain Victorian houses reaching up a slope near King 's Cross . |
| 26 | Colonials keeping up a good show , ignoring the riotous jungle around them . |
| 27 | This superb sum was the result of members and friends keeping up a daily supply of super baking . |
| 28 | A fight involving 150 people led to BUF members breaking up an IFL meeting , tearing up its banner and beating up Arnold Leese and Brigadier-General Blakeney , the ex-president of the BFs . |
| 29 | Modern Languages Option In Industry Resources Pack is available free to modern language teachers taking up a placement — a collaborative project between UBI , Barclays Bank , Department of Trade and Industry and Kent Education Authority . |
| 30 | Pi was filmed in the restaurant , in Cheltenham 's fashionable Montpelier district , as part of a programme which exposed his gang members beating up a business competitor in Manchester . |