Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [vb base] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only did the fragrances of the essences cover up the putrid smells of gangrenous wounds , they also suppressed them by retarding putrefaction . |
| 2 | In November 1940 the Vichy government abolished the ineffective Commission de Châlons , intending to replace it with an organisation called Le Bureau de Repartition du Vinicole de Champagne , but in April the following year the Germans set up the CIVC . |
| 3 | Hour by hour the birds move up the wedge |
| 4 | For example , the researchers set up the apparatus hours and even days before they took the final readings . |
| 5 | The sensors pick up the change which is then fed back directly to alter the temperature or some other variable . |
| 6 | The beaters stir up the water with enough force to loosen the berries which float to the surface forming brilliant , crimson lakes . |
| 7 | When the archeaologists dig up the ruins in France at the turn of the next millennium , they may well be confused about what was going on in our time . |
| 8 | The headlights pick up the shiny worn sleepers . |
| 9 | The companies set up the Volta Aluminium Company ( VALCO ) in 1959 . |
| 10 | The sun stirs up the winds ; the winds suck up the swells ; the swells pump out waves that trip up against the jutting kerbs of the land . |
| 11 | The Kessels pick up the Chases , and drive into town to go to the theatre . |
| 12 | Not only that , but continuous 124 mph winds surging around the planet whip up the ochre soil high into the atmosphere , turning the sky pink , virtually obscuring the already wan sunlight . |
| 13 | The rural women often become tired of their hard lives in the fields and over the years save up the proceeds from the goods they sell at market . |
| 14 | If the Mujahideen divide up the country among themselves it is likely that the big divide would be along these mountains , which would then become the new division between Central Asia and the Indian sub-continent . |
| 15 | " Gloppo and his pal discover the joys of oral sex , the Freudians blow up the world , but that was going to happen anyway , and our two heroes live comparatively happily ever after . " |
| 16 | Watching the traffic and the rain swallow up the departing taxi , the Captain wondered how the man stayed so thin if he ate that way every day . |
| 17 | Nowadays , the machines chew up the hedge trimmings so that they do n't require burning ; you just plough them in . |
| 18 | Drawing a field means that the hounds are guided by the huntsmen and whippers-in across the field until the hounds pick up the scent of a hare . |
| 19 | ‘ The goats gobble up the vegetation , the pigs dig up the roots and the eggs of tortoises and turtles , and the donkeys trample paths on the hills , causing erosion , so that in the rainy season whole hillsides fall down . ’ |
| 20 | To find each new point on the graph move up the " day " line until you are level with the correct number of kg for that day . |
| 21 | In winter , the storms stir up the water , and nutrients — such as N and P — are brought up from the bottom . |
| 22 | A few letters and edited sections of four interviews with the artist make up the rest of the volume which has some interesting illustrations reproducing photographs of the artist and friends . |
| 23 | The additions bump up the mandatory and discretionary access controls , give each piece of data held a security level label and implement the sophisticated system auditing capabilities that the certification requires . |
| 24 | The additions bump up the mandatory and discretionary access controls , give each piece of data held a security level label and implement the sophisticated system auditing capabilities that the certification requires . |
| 25 | What little ‘ trouble ’ there is virtually disappears as the pupils rise up the school , developing a conception of themselves as valued persons within the official framework . |
| 26 | In FE , where the modules make up the bulk of the non-advanced curriculum , each student , on average , undertakes six modules . |
| 27 | The Founders put up the required £5,000. making a total of £39,650 — enough to match GLEB and trigger the promised grant . |
| 28 | Antennas around the top of the ship pick up the radar signals and a computer works out details such as their frequency , the type of modulation and the intervals between pulses . |
| 29 | The laws speed up the game greatly but clearly much thought has still to be given to implementation . |
| 30 | Miriam and all the women take up the refrain , and dance for joy . |