Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile the main path route goes up the valley until sea reappears ( where these two routes merge ) . |
| 2 | This definition , according to Schumpeter , is a summary or basis of a revised theory of democracy which is much truer to life and at the same time salvages much of what the sponsors of democratic method really mean by this term' Schumpeter builds up a definition of the modern political system in the West , which he claims ‘ to try out on some of the more important features of the structure and working of the political engine in democratic countries ’ . |
| 3 | Moving like the late Dick Emery in his ‘ Ooh , you are awful ’ guise , Standerline eats up the role of the camp gay explaining his troubled yet amusing life in brisk gag-heavy declarations . |
| 4 | I 'm all for waiting till Mrs Fanshawe perks up a bit . ’ |
| 5 | The optimised X-Winserver speeds up the performance of X-Windows : DOS and Windows emulation facilities have been built into the kernel . |
| 6 | Far away from the great Victorian industrial districts , untouched even by the Midlands framework knitting industry , Northamptonshire conjures up an image of rural stability , great landed estates and ‘ close ’ villages . |
| 7 | This study shows up a lot of the over-simplifications in the ‘ status consciousness ’ argument . |
| 8 | Then I hear a muffled cry of alarm , but a rush of wind breaks up the information to my ears . |
| 9 | Approval will partly depend on whether or not the UK Department of Trade & Industry opens up the market for international simple resale to the US . |
| 10 | But some believe the DoH has stopped short of adequate advice , while others believe the new guidance opens up the system to abuse . |
| 11 | In words like ‘ potato ’ , ‘ tomato ’ , ‘ canary ’ , ‘ perhaps ’ , ‘ today ’ , the vowel in the first syllable may disappear ; the aspiration of the initial plosive takes up the whole of the middle portion of the syllable , resulting in these pronunciations ( where indicates aspiration ) : ; ; ; ; |
| 12 | Administrative support posts are becoming increasingly attractive to men and this broader approach to the core subjects opens up the market of applicants to both sexes who wish to work as part of the executive office management team . |
| 13 | This chapter takes up the theme of industrial determination introduced in relation to the Northern Region in Chapter 3 . |
| 14 | In the brief soliloquy following Clarence 's exit Richard keeps up the equivocation : ‘ I will shortly send thy soul to heaven , /If heaven will take the present at our hands ’ ( 119 — 20 ) . |
| 15 | The record company folk who have been talking Gulf and eating her sarnies leave and Susanna draws up a chair , sits on it cross-legged and starts to play with her hair , twisting it and knitting it . |
| 16 | The monitor picks up the amount of ultraviolet or UV rays coming from the sun . |
| 17 | Main picture : The uncluttered bedroom sums up the atmosphere of the house |
| 18 | The only part of the county where Labour puts up a fight is in Milton Keynes where hold eight of the sixteen seats . |
| 19 | The lessee in a lease — the defendant so covenanted in this case — covenants in effect that he or his assignee will perform the covenants and observe the conditions contained in it ; and when , as in the present instance , the defendant sets up no performance by himself of the covenants sued on , his defence must be either that his assignee has performed them or that his assignee is in some way as between himself and the lessor absolved from performance . |
| 20 | The game is a vertically scrolling shoot-'em-up where your aircraft zooms up the screen to greet the enemy troops zooming down to kill you ( surprise , surprise ) . |
| 21 | This process provides the manufacturer with more of a profit because the bacon soaks up the salt and water which increases its weight . |
| 22 | Now , we 're working on language , now , but because a question turns up every year on paper one , to do with education , we 're going to be considering education , and we 're going to consider education in the broadest possible way , and that is , how do we know things . |
| 23 | Everything in the supermarkets goes up every week . |
| 24 | We cheer when a meerkat eats up a scorpion or a rattlesnake just for the hell of it . |
| 25 | Note that this may conflict with requirements of efficiency given above for example , a chain of subroutines takes longer to obey than the expanded code and the liberal use of remark statements to aid readability uses up a lot of valuable memory . |
| 26 | Tenderly : A 1953 jam session takes up the whole of one side . |
| 27 | The loss of McCoist opens up the possibility of Jess playing his first full international from the start , having been used as a substitute against Italy . |
| 28 | The advertising campaign backs up a strategy which includes the introduction of a toll system in built-up areas and substantial investment in public transport . |
| 29 | And as a little extra , the whole family is remembered through the generosity of the school 's industrial ‘ twin ’ — Triton plc , Britain 's leading shower manufacturer — which offers £10 cash back for every Triton shower purchased at Payless DIY , Nuneaton when your child takes up a place at Manor Park . |
| 30 | The problem was that we were firefighting not just for ourselves but for so many of our clients , and firefighting takes up a lot of time and emotionally is a strain . |