Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] up [art] [noun] " 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 Twice I forked out for cable car rides up the Stock Mountain where there are more langlauf tracks and ample space to make your own .
3 Such an approach 's insistence on dealing with non-traditional , non-objective methods points up the ambiguities which characterize psychological methods , in a persistent and useful way .
4 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 ’ .
5 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 .
6 I 'm all for waiting till Mrs Fanshawe perks up a bit . ’
7 The optimised X-Winserver speeds up the performance of X-Windows : DOS and Windows emulation facilities have been built into the kernel .
8 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 .
9 This study shows up a lot of the over-simplifications in the ‘ status consciousness ’ argument .
10 Then I hear a muffled cry of alarm , but a rush of wind breaks up the information to my ears .
11 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 .
12 But some believe the DoH has stopped short of adequate advice , while others believe the new guidance opens up the system to abuse .
13 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 ) : ; ; ; ;
14 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 .
15 This chapter takes up the theme of industrial determination introduced in relation to the Northern Region in Chapter 3 .
16 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 ) .
17 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 .
18 Routine thinking throws up no ideas about how to work on or round or against a seemingly impossible situation — which reaffirms powerlessness .
19 The monitor picks up the amount of ultraviolet or UV rays coming from the sun .
20 The minibus picks up the Inspirals party outside the hotel in Japantown , San Francisco at 10.30 the next morning , a Sunday .
21 Vivian de Sola Pinto sums up the qualities required of this kind of professional scholar as a capacity for " exact scholarship " , an extensive " knowledge " of language and literature , and — if possible — " the most perfect taste and tact " .
22 Main picture : The uncluttered bedroom sums up the atmosphere of the house
23 The first section of this chapter sums up the differences which have emerged between legacies and trusts in the course of this book , and goes on to consider whether or how far or in what sense classical law can be said to have reached a fusion of legacy and trust .
24 The only part of the county where Labour puts up a fight is in Milton Keynes where hold eight of the sixteen seats .
25 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 .
26 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 ) .
27 This process provides the manufacturer with more of a profit because the bacon soaks up the salt and water which increases its weight .
28 Because of the disposition and the shape of Walter 's continuous check in relation to the wrestplank , the treble end of the check would not pass under the wrestplank as the action slides up the ramps at the back if the ends of the check batten were rigidly fixed to the action frame .
29 Sir John Rimmer digs up the Presley hoard .
30 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 .
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