Example sentences of "[to-vb] up [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were able to drum up a great deal of press and radio material on the sorry plight of British beer . |
| 2 | The Socialist leader took charge of the mandate after the conservative New Democracy Party , which fell three seats short of an overall majority in the general elections last weekend , failed to drum up the extra support it needed to create a minority administration . |
| 3 | When he heard of his army 's defeat he proclaimed a huge mushroom feast and ordered his shamans to brew up a fresh batch of Mad Cap fungus liquor for the Fanatics . |
| 4 | You can now start venturing away from your measured route and start looking for additional ways to clock up the extra miles — try walking to the shops instead of driving ; try parking the car further away from work and walking the rest of the way ; or getting off the bus or train one or two stops from your destination and walking the rest of the way . |
| 5 | How can a twenty-two-year-old mother with three small children , whose stock of crockery consists of three cups and four plates , find the economic or emotional hardware to plug up the six-inch hole around the pipe running from her sink to an outside drain , or similar holes round all the pipes in her kitchen ? |
| 6 | Thus David Reynolds and Christopher Thorne have resorted to such phrases as " competitive co-operation " or " allies of a kind " in their attempts to sum up the famous wartime partnership . |
| 7 | He says Oxford is a wonderland we wanted to sum up the traditional image with dreaming spires and punting on the Cherwell . |
| 8 | This , as Henry looked at it , the piped organ music swelling through the chapel , seemed to sum up the complete irrelevance of English literature . |
| 9 | Herbert also penned the verses which have come to sum up the general fate of such investigations : |
| 10 | First , to sum up the relevant conclusions so far . |
| 11 | So what would The Inspirals T-shirt slogan be to sum up the current attitude ? |
| 12 | So , to sum up the main points so far : the scriptible as a value and the commentary as a form of reading both imply an approach which is largely incompatible with the chief principles of classical structuralism . |
| 13 | To sum up the hybrid theory that has emerged : it is that non-reinforced pre-exposure to a stimulus will allow the formation of potentially interfering associations and bring about a loss of associability . |
| 14 | I 'm going to write up a suggested arrangement on the board now . |
| 15 | The task did n't stop here — Fiona also had to write up a detailed log of the trip , complete with samples , photographs and complex scientific data showing when the river had high and low tides and why it flowed in a certain direction . |
| 16 | The results of this voyage were published in fifty large volumes between 1880 and 1895 , and represented international collaboration in oceanography and marine biology ; the most eminent authorities in the world were chosen to write up the various results and describe the collections . |
| 17 | On leaving Wilton Park , I went to Sutton Coldfield to write up the Green Paper . |
| 18 | She sit down on the chair but she 'll want to stand up a little bit cause we got bins underneath and she wants to put her feet on the bins |
| 19 | Saturdays made no difference to us , for there was no school then , but on Wednesdays some of us had to stand up the whole way to Parma . |
| 20 | It probably was n't practical to rig up a short tape belay and , in any case , the climbers felt they were down , with the climbing virtually finished . |
| 21 | LEGAL peers renewed their attack on the Government 's plans to shake up the legal profession yesterday , when the Courts and Legal Services Bill had its second reading in the Lords . |
| 22 | The changes were more a reflection of her anti-establishment outlook and determination to shake up the civil service hierarchy . |
| 23 | The Royal College of Nursing is to lobby Parliament on 24 October in protest at the Government 's plans to shake up the National Health Service , the union has announced . |
| 24 | And if you were an important enough visitor , you were allowed to come up the privy stair and straight into the great chamber . |
| 25 | But I could n't remember where the turn off was to come up the scenic route . |
| 26 | I was thinking about life , the universe and how much I liked Kim Carnes 's voice ( a voice that makes you regret moving to filter cigarettes ) on the tape-deck when I began to conjure up a mental picture of Billy Tuckett . |
| 27 | This idea of Elena as the colleague in leadership of Nicolae Ceauşescu led the poet , Ion Gheorghe , to conjure up a mystical vision of Elena as part of a ‘ trinity ’ , whose ‘ three dimensions ’ were Nicolae Ceauşescu , herself and the fatherland , of which she was mother . |
| 28 | There must be a myriad ruses and devices in the pursuit of happiness , and I could think of none in order to conjure up a complementary question . |
| 29 | Surprisingly , only Roger E Bryan tried to conjure up the real Neil Kinnock , now unsuppressed by his minders and able to give full rein to his natural prolixity : ‘ I am full of hate , spite , yes malice and rage/Or even loathing , disgust , rancour , venom and wrath … |
| 30 | The ultimate target of this frantic quest on the part of all the quality papers to conjure up the ideal-average readership — ‘ young , upwardly mobile … leisure and DIY- orientated ’ ( The Independent ) ‘ … a readership of the future with a strong sense of the past ’ ( The Guardian ) — is of course nothing other than that favoured figment of the marketing imagination : the yuppie . |