Example sentences of "[verb] up [adj] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even more usefully , from a film-maker 's point of view , untimely celebrity death precludes the risk of libel , thus opening up all sorts of opportunities for dramatic license . |
| 2 | Once the security of the industry was assured there was every incentive for the comedians to experiment , for comedy relied on movement , gesture , and illusion whilst photography and editing were now opening up all kinds of new possibilities . |
| 3 | During Elizabeth 's reign the English had been concerned , as Hakluyt explained , with trade and with opening up new lines of commerce . |
| 4 | Publishers grow thick skins against negative reviewing , but I remain puzzled at the volume of abuse directed at this particular book , by an author who has spent many years working on his subject , opening up new areas of research , and who has arguably contributed more in recent years ( viz Orwell : The War Broadcasts , Orwell : The War Commentaries and The Larger Evils ) to the study of Orwell 's work than any other scholar . |
| 5 | Beyond that , we are into the final , open stage of adult or continuing education , which may go on intermittently for many years , compensating for missed opportunities , updating and extending existing skills , or opening up new fields of interest and expertise altogether . |
| 6 | There are several interesting new developments in the pipeline which could lead to the introduction of more advanced grades of acrylic plastics , opening up new fields of use to them and increasing the rate of growth appreciably . ’ |
| 7 | The horn is fitted with three valves or pistons and it is the function of these valves to lower the pitch of the instrument in varying degrees by opening up fresh lengths of tube . |
| 8 | In the event , the 1559 parliament restored the Henrician anti-papal statutes and the 1552 Prayer Book-albeit modified in a number of important respects- and in 1563 convocation drew up thirty-nine articles of faith , based substantially on Cranmer 's Forty-Two Articles of 1553 . |
| 9 | In a perverse way , the new utopia dredged up ancient ways of doing things which capitalism a few decades earlier had threatened to abolish . |
| 10 | Unhindered by the country 's lax competition rules , they built up complex webs of cross-shareholdings across an astonishing array of businesses . |
| 11 | To create the sloping sides in the base of the pond , John built up three layers of bricks from the edges , sloping inwards towards the centre . |
| 12 | Volunteers recently picked up eight tons of litter left by them . |
| 13 | His own sources among the Altun had picked up vague hints of another conception upon which Sidacai had drawn or to which he had been led . |
| 14 | Or perhaps it was merely an accident that Marcus had picked up those utterances of his ancestors . |
| 15 | Athelstan carefully picked up some splinters of wood . |
| 16 | She has three children , one under the age of one , and has to come up four flights of stairs to her home many times a day . |
| 17 | A year or so later , or it may have been an hour , I crumpled up four sheets of paper and threw them to the floor , and started another , and I was there . |
| 18 | Toying with that idea started a train of thought about some of the other activities probably open to super-beings , which led me to conjure up some images of myself with Sergia , the Ardakkean , minus her costume , in the Orgitunnel . |
| 19 | ‘ So we build up individual patterns of preferred activities which an interviewer , trained to look for them , can detect . ’ |
| 20 | Project English encourages learning through project work : as the pupils work through the projects in the Student 's Book , they gradually build up similar projects of their own by carrying out a number of project tasks . |
| 21 | The parade of lunacy and corruption will continue , but all you will be able to do is go red in the face , mobilise glycogen from your under-used body , build up huge deposits of cholesterol in your coronary arteries and eventually explode , collapse and croak . |
| 22 | They represent the best hope in years of cutting the rich countries ' farm subsidies which , at taxpayers ' expense , build up huge surpluses of foodstuffs that are then dumped on world markets at low prices — and which then put third-world farmers out of business . |
| 23 | Build up deeper tones of colour in several layers . |
| 24 | When we came to a final stop we were carried up many flights of stairs , taken into an apartment and dumped on the floor . |
| 25 | Climbing up several flights of narrow , twisting stairs , I reached the Sultan 's penthouse pavilion with its view over the rooftops of Begampur . |
| 26 | It is not possible to predict the types of security interests that will be created in the future and requiring registration of some such unforeseen interests could be unnecessarily burdensome ; even with respect to the known types of legal charge , particularly those conferring the right to possession , it would produce overkill ; and lastly it is claimed that to require the registration of all charges could dry up certain types of secured borrowing . |
| 27 | Ted Stanley used up two pints of bronze maggots while loose feeding at the opposite end of the car park bank and finished with a heavy mixed net of fish . |
| 28 | Every mile of dual carriageway eats up twenty-six acres of countryside ; the government are committed to fourteen billion pounds expenditure on a road-building expansion . |
| 29 | They must scoop up or snap up huge numbers of insects each day to fill their stomachs , and each insect contains a large percentage of rather non-nutritious outer-covering . |
| 30 | In conjunction with considerable manual dexterity derived in part from the ability to oppose thumb and index finger which man shares with the gelada baboon and presumably derives from the same source ( picking up small objects of the diet ) , the adoption of an upright posture created the right conditions for the final emancipation of the hand from locomotion and set man on the path which led to the invention and use of tools and to material culture in general . |