Example sentences of "[adv] up [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But Baldersdale does have one extra visual blessing rarely seen in the Dales — water , Hury Reservoir was built a century or so ago and it stretches sinuously up a major portion of the valley .
2 ( This makes it hard to draw any line between old and ‘ new ’ , i.e. post-Periclean , politicians in terms of social standing ; similarly we now know that the later and much-vilified demagogue Kleophon was the son of a man high enough up the social ladder to have served as a general : ML 21 . )
3 The caves of Postojna and Škocjan are notable tourist attractions , and there is even a castle , Predjamski Grad , built into the mouth of a cave halfway up a sheer limestone cliff , to which access can be gained by way of a labyrinth of underground passages .
4 Four Australians , for example , above a road to Three Spurs and halfway Up a steep hillside , once knocked out most of the men in the first of two trucks passing below the patrol .
5 It was Mama , though , who wore it in the painting halfway up the great staircase — so that all who passed by could see it and admire .
6 To get ahead of the teams and join them halfway up the 12,000 foot mountain , Fusil flew a few journalists over the forest canopy just a few feet above the top of the trees .
7 She paused halfway up the second flight to hear whether anyone was following , but all she heard was the sound of a door below opening and the voices of Joseph , Maurin and Barbara Coleman going into the flat .
8 He was halfway up the final flight when he heard the voiders ' whistle in the street outside , its piercing din unmistakable .
9 His powerful trunk and huge belly filled the chair and the yellow cattleman 's boots were laced halfway up the stout legs .
10 Straightening her legs out , she leaned forward to pull the zip halfway up the duvet-like sleeping-bag which , she realised belatedly , was actually two bags opened flat and zipped together .
11 Halfway up the little tarmac driveway I trip a sensor .
12 The sun had moved behind the rooftops and it cast shadows halfway up the little houses on the opposite side of the turning .
13 Nara was perched safely halfway up the notched-pole ladder to the upper roof .
14 In January 1987 , a clicking signal at 37kHz was detected coming from a band 3ft in width halfway up the tallest stone in the circle .
15 A narrow track wound steeply up the lower slopes through dense forest , and then areas of bamboo and giant heather .
16 We go for a walk up into the hills in the afternoon ; me puffing and panting and coughing after Andy as he strides quickly , easily up the rutted forest tracks .
17 Indeed , their only identifiable link is Andy , currently climbing easily up the red rock .
18 Leo had climbed laboriously up the promotional ladder of merchant banking to one of the higher rungs , earning every penny of his salary , whereas James seemed to accumulate money without even trying .
19 His ability took him rapidly up the social security tree and to Number 10 as Jim Callaghan 's Principal Private Secretary .
20 All political parties have their own reasons for pushing the quality of public services further up the political agenda .
21 Only slightly further up the evolutionary scale in terms of reproduction are the Echinoderms .
22 Don Peters had failed in his UK assignment and had effectively blown his chances of being moved further up the corporate ladder to a Vice Presidency and , maybe , to the Presidency itself .
23 A magistrates ' or crown court will rarely second-guess a constable and it in turn will only very occasionally be overruled on this issue further up the judicial ladder .
24 First there is an increase in misdemeanours — the type of behaviour a girl might be ticked off for at home but which in care results in her finding herself further up the custodial ladder in a Community Home with Education .
25 That influence will be needed tonight as Wrexham bid to climb further up the third division table .
26 Further up the same road there were even more Walkers , all related , living at Botany Farm — William and Annie with one daughter , Marjorie , who was a little bit older than me .
27 But further up the social scale , unrewarded deference was often required , often with the constable being treated as simply another flunkey in uniform , an attitude that might provoke a retaliatory reaction .
28 By the 1960s , on the other hand , it was becoming increasingly difficult for those further up the social scale to avoid the consequences of industrialization any longer — even by indulging in rural retreatism .
29 Only a little further up the social scale , another quarter or more of the rural inhabitants had tenements varying in size up to a yardland , which in Cambridgeshire seems to have been about 30 and 40 acres .
30 As the ‘ laar ’ ( breath ) of wind is from the south east , I head slowly up the western shore , knowing that , with the ebbing tide , there will be a few seals hauled out on the rocks .
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