Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The frost causes the bracken to die back and thereby opens up the canopy to let in more light . |
| 2 | The Bank , by rejecting offers at r 1 , is in effect reducing its demand for bills ( D 1 to D 2 ) , and thereby drives up the rediscount rate to r 2 . |
| 3 | Europe was first to industrialise and thereby throw up the indigent urban proletariat , who in their turn founded the first labour organisations which spawned Marxism and fascism , both truly European ideologies . |
| 4 | On Feb. 7 riot police in Cairo outnumbered and forcibly broke up the first protest march against the war by opposition leaders and 50 supporters . |
| 5 | That in turn means concentrating our limited resources on fewer and carefully selected targets where we can , over the years , bring about change and effect medium and long-term and far-reaching improvements , as opposed to merely and inadequately propping up the status quo . |
| 6 | A good catalogue , therefore , makes life easy for its user , and so builds up the supplier 's reputation . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If you use drugs , you will need to consider that drugs can deplete your immune system and so speed up the progression of the illness . |
| 9 | For the diminutive Andy — people often wonder how he hauls around the pro bags that stand as high as him — the triumphs he has shared with Nick Faldo are something of a fulfilment of his own ambition of winning the titles himself : he started as a tournament professional with dreams of a major championship before realizing he would not make the grade as a pro , and so took up the bag instead of the club . |
| 10 | As one trade union succeeds in a wage claim and so moves up the ‘ league table ’ , other unions immediately put in similar wage claims in an attempt to restore their relative positions . |
| 11 | Clearly such references are not merely longwinded substitutes for a name : they draw attention now to this , now to that aspect of the same person , and so build up a many-sided picture of each character . |
| 12 | They presumably become familiar with all the small local anomalies and so build up a much more detailed magnetic map of the area they live in . |
| 13 | One way round this problem that has been suggested is to complement our village-centred studies of micro-process with studies of institutional or bureaucratic micro-process ; to do , for example , ethnographies of the planners as well as the planned , and so to build up a composite picture of the social realities of people in different social niches . |
| 14 | To get as close as possible to sea-dwelling fauna ( and perhaps pick up a crustacean for the lunchtable ) , take a short course in diving and snorkelling . |
| 15 | As always , remember to practise sl-ow-ly at first and only build up the tempo as and when the part begins to feel comfortable . |
| 16 | He took 2–38 in 10 overs , and eagerly snapped up a chance offered by Graham Gooch off Peter Martin . |
| 17 | If it can be made intelligible , then it is only in terms of certain structural concepts which are all interdependent and mutually complementary , and together make up a logically self-subsistent whole . |
| 18 | I took sips of my wine and carried on with the supper , and at one point I went across to the bookcase and idly picked up a petal that was lying there . |
| 19 | We bade farewell to the wild deer and , with the wind behind us , crossed Taransay Sound and gently cruised up the fjord-like approach towards civilization . |
| 20 | The introduction of the five-point try was announced in Wellington , New Zealand , yesterday by rugby union 's International Board , which has made a series of sweeping rule changes in an attempt to quicken the flow and generally brighten up the game . |
| 21 | We really need to pull some focus on all that percussion and generally tighten up the imaging . |
| 22 | World prices for Arabian light grade had dropped by around $4.50 per barrel since October 1991 , to about $18.50 , at a time when the onset of winter in the northern hemisphere would normally have increased demand and thus shored up the price . |
| 23 | Clearly , one of the potential advantages of this approach is that successive RMI implementations can learn the lessons of earlier sites and hopefully avoid problems and thus speed up the total process . |
| 24 | In the case of Venus thermal tides make a very large contribution and it can be shown that it is this component of the overall circulation that may drive the 4–5 day zonal circulation and thus speed up the axial spin ( section 4.2 ) . |
| 25 | I would dearly like to do what one friend I know does , and that is buy one beautiful piece of furniture , or exquisite porcelain , each year from Partridge , who always have the very best , and thus build up a fine collection . |
| 26 | It was also planned that wherever possible these local workers should be employed to work with a specific elderly person , and thus to build up a relationship between the two . |
| 27 | The greater abundance of mare basalts on the mare than in the highlands is not explained in any detail , but the greater variability of rocks within the highlands could be the outcome of the maria impacts which excavated the Moon to large depths and thus brought up a great variety of layers . |
| 28 | and just use up the P E P . |
| 29 | The Christmas tree decorated only with silver stars cut out and bows made out of paper rope , you cut the paper rope and just tie up the bows . |
| 30 | I wish I could be like you and just give up the Glens for Linfield . |