Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] [art] most " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be robust enough to stand up to the most rigorous testing from the appraisal panel . |
| 2 | Crumbs of advantage , Bénezet had found , may be picked up in the most unexpected places . |
| 3 | These then go out into the environment , are reflected back in a multitude of different ways according to the objects encountered , are picked up by the most amazingly refined hearing organs , matched against an inner mind structure capable of interpreting this data as a full and complete three-dimensional world and used as a major sensory means of perceiving their watery or aerial world . |
| 4 | It can be a pig to set up in the most efficient way as regards memory , because it can use a tremendous amount of the base 640k of a PC . |
| 5 | of all surgery conducted , and came up with a most impressive figure . |
| 6 | Tim Kaihatsu wrote quite a lot — in fact , he was the one who came up with the most material . |
| 7 | Homeless people came up with the most poignant things , probably because they 're used to communicating this way . ’ |
| 8 | The traditionally Muslim peoples of Central Asia accounted for a further 15 per cent ; and the balance was made up for the most part of the larger national groups in Transcaucasia and the Baltic . |
| 9 | It 's very amusing , and you 've explained it amusingly to us , but er , there 's a lot of truth , I think in er , what you say and er how can we , er make the best of these unwelcome guests who insist on turning up at the most inopportune times , when we 're trying to enjoy ourselves . |
| 10 | The field for the 1986 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe was the strongest the race had offered for years , adding up to the most valuable collection of bloodstock ever assembled fur a single race in Europe . |
| 11 | The Literary Lionisers gazed up at the most splendid Norman keep in England . |
| 12 | Before he stepped up for the most nerve-shattering moment of his career Guennady Grishin had kept his nerve to fire the Russians into a 4-3 advantage . |
| 13 | Of course , that sort of thing has a really limited audience and , because we were living in Hawaii , there was nobody there to watch us anyway , so we were coming up with the most insane stuff we could do , basically just to please ourselves ! |
| 14 | She had been brought up in the most isolated of spots — although , perhaps , because of its very isolation and Granny Tremayne 's aloofness , she had simply known about , but not exactly experienced , communal village life . |
| 15 | Hope walked across to one of the biggest stones and examined its blank surface close up with the most scrupulous attention until the Colonel and his ward had quit the field . |
| 16 | But when we were young , she and I used to get up to the most dreadful pranks . ’ |
| 17 | At the same time , however , he earned massive public support for standing up to the most widely feared and despised Soviet institution . |
| 18 | God pops up in the most surprising of places . |
| 19 | Most of the Healthcare group asked if they could attend , and as Brenda says ‘ We ended up with the most romantic wedding you could wish for . |
| 20 | He derides particularly the Dedlock family portraits : ‘ The whole race he represented as having evidently been , in life , what he called ‘ stuffed people ’ , — a large collection , glassy eyed , set up in the most approved manner on their various twigs and perches , very correct , perfectly free from animation , and always in glass cases . ’ |