Example sentences of "[v-ing] up [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hope could picture himself comforting Mrs Crump , shoring up the memory of her husband , praising him , assessing him , recalling ‘ mots ’ , reporting favourable comments , and then in would come the daughter , dressed entirely in black , and he would say , would be forced to say no matter what the consequences were , that the child was like the man . |
| 2 | This account of normalisation focuses on opening up a range of life-style opportunities which are available to the rest of the population but which have tended to be closed to people with learning difficulties . |
| 3 | As Titron lifted , the black water in the dock sucked away , opening up a drop of several feet , only to be followed by a surge upwards . |
| 4 | The first frame last night was as crucial as any , but Hendry won that with breaks of 54 and 55 before opening up a lead of three with an 81 which proved to be his highest after the interval . |
| 5 | Reading this collection of interviews with twenty five Scottish and Irish women poets is like opening up a box of plain chocolates , only to be confronted with an array of brightly coloured and diverse tasting liqueurs . |
| 6 | It is recognized that any programme of improving information management will cost money , in the form of staff and equipment , but any money spent will result in opening up the wealth of our information resources to larger numbers of people . |
| 7 | Braque , on the other hand , has used Cézanne 's technique of opening up the contours of objects , so that in his paintings the eye slips inwards and upwards from plane to plane without having to make a series of abrupt transitions or adjustments . |
| 8 | She also delivered her own populist riposte , opening up the possibility of a referendum on the issue of the introduction of a single European currency . |
| 9 | These operate as discursive resources to be drawn upon and articulated in different combinations in particular contexts , thus constantly opening up the possibility of tension , inconsistency and contradiction within and between sites . |
| 10 | Blocked negotiations with the unions resumed at the end of January , opening up the possibility of extending the deadline for job losses to the end of 1994 . |
| 11 | A European Court of Justice ruling on July 21 was seen as opening up the possibility of EC citizens applying for social security benefits in the United Kingdom even though they lived outside the UK . |
| 12 | US scientists have successfully produced the first gene-altered wheat , opening up the possibility of the development of high-protein strains and ones resistant to drought and disease . |
| 13 | Commenting on the grant , Alex Wright of the Commission said , ‘ We welcome this grant and we hope it will assist Lancashire County Council in opening up the rights of way network by dealing with several major problems and paths that need modifications . ’ |
| 14 | Here he studied under Otto Wallach , who was opening up the chemistry of terpenes natural products important as flavours and fragrances . |
| 15 | Identifying a discharge as ‘ polluting ’ is the first step in opening up the sequence of decisions to be made about modes of control . |
| 16 | Such international collaboration is now continuing to locate the gene itself , opening up the prospect of devising a test to find out which women are at risk of developing the disease . |
| 17 | ‘ It acknowledges the success of the JY team in opening up the world of current affairs for ordinary people . |
| 18 | I was in no way offended , though , by O'Connor 's simple action of tearing up a picture of the Pope on television . |
| 19 | Drunks were making a din on the stairs and a sculptor was tearing up a collection of Kisling 's drawings and throwing them down on to the head of the concierge . |
| 20 | Upstairs in the nursery the baby is tearing up The Anatomy of Melancholy , and eating it page by page . |
| 21 | Simon did n't answer , just turned in his swivel chair and began lacing up the front of Kim 's basque while still giving me my instructions . |
| 22 | Pete was now beginning to wonder if she was feeling ill ; it was almost as if , for the latter part of the evening , she 'd only been keeping up a show of enjoying herself and now the strain of the charade was getting through to her . |
| 23 | Anyway , we pulled ourselves together and pretended to be pleased to see him , and then he drove us back to London like a maniac , keeping up a stream of gibberish which after a while I stopped listening to . |
| 24 | This is in addition to the normal purposes of cuts , such as keeping up the pace of the story , or giving emphasis to actions or reactions . |
| 25 | Kirov took a couple steps back , keeping up the look of rejection before allowing his face to clear . |
| 26 | The RCM understood this as well as they understood the realities of keeping up the supply of foster parents . |
| 27 | We can now understand the importance to a country of keeping up the volume of exports . |
| 28 | Bill Strachan , its second owner , is keeping up the policy of good beer . |
| 29 | Tyrants and tribs with Ewen MacAskill mug Keeping up the stream of insults |
| 30 | In spite of the Jockey Club 's apparent determination to play down the doping cases and its hushing up the Flash of Straw investigations until now , it does seem that there is a sinister element at large in British horse racing . |