Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Compact benefits students by offering them " value-added " jobs when they have attained their goals , and so opens up the realistic prospect of job satisfaction and career progression . |
| 2 | My father gently picks up the nearest little one and begins to fit its harness on . |
| 3 | We were together all the time : played languid games of tennis on the court behind her house , swam , went on picnics , went for long walks up the lower slopes of Kinabalue , the mountain whose green and mauve shadowed mass loomed over Jesselton . |
| 4 | The Waterline , then , returns to its origins , as the case study which is Billy 's life painfully dredges up the first scenes of his disorder . |
| 5 | It just props up the underlying immune system . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Qui plus fait , mie[u]x vault ’ ( ‘ Who does most is worth most ’ ) , the refrain in the Livre de chevalerie written in the middle of the fourteenth century by Geoffroi de Charny , the standard-bearer of King John II of France at the battle of Poitiers , who preferred to stand and die rather than run away in the moment of defeat , aptly sums up the chivalrous attitude to war . |
| 7 | The term ‘ royal forest ’ always conjures up the wrong picture . |
| 8 | The use of impro in training has gone through many phases ; it still conjures up the traditional , hackneyed image of a student being asked to be a tree or an icecream . |
| 9 | But the latter were clearly hopelessly reductionist in relation to a concept such as this which at once opens up the possible significances of what was once merely seen as the aesthetic . |
| 10 | It always takes up the same number of positions in the file name , and that 's useful as you shall see . |
| 11 | Christmas time , when party-giving is on the whole overdone , may make the social aridity of the rest of the year seem almost attractive , but this exhausting seasonal overswill also points up the ordinary isolation that obtains for most of us nowadays . |
| 12 | The annual report artificially parcels up the underlying economic trends into years . |
| 13 | Knox 's account of the bond and its aftermath compellingly conjures up the new spirit released by that small group in December 1557 . |
| 14 | This clearly sums up the Conservative attitude to taxation and , most importantly , it views the alleviation of poverty as part of an overall policy to improve prosperity for everyone . |
| 15 | Richardson is not uncritical of his subject or the paintings , particularly the blue period works , and certainly points up the variable quality of the paintings of the earliest years , where fully-fledged masterpieces were mixed in with hastily produced or rather gauchly sentimental pieces . |
| 16 | The provision of council housing therefore links up the second basis of local — newcomer conflict , which relates to broadly environmental issues . |
| 17 | The sprawling retrospective of his work currently takes up the two vast floors normally devoted by the museum to setting forth the story of late nineteenth- and twentieth-century painting and sculpture . |
| 18 | It certainly freshens up the dusty atmosphere , and one can almost see the grass and leaves on the trees beginning to sprout . |