Example sentences of "up [art] [noun sg] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presumably , too , A sets up the defence of necessity ; we are not expressly told that there was ( or that A thought there was ) no other way of saving the leader 's life , but this is a fair inference from the question . |
| 2 | One way is to crawl up the staircase of preferment on your belly ; the other way is to kick them in the teeth . |
| 3 | Now artistic intention can be seen more clearly as just one of many often overlapping strands — ideological , economic , social , political — that make up the work of art , whether literary text , painting , or sculpture . |
| 4 | The bloke behind the counter said , look , I 've just got to go and look up the year of manufacture , I 'll be back in a couple of minutes . |
| 5 | Fabia could n't help picking up the air of excitement about her , and realised that she was n't the only one when barely had they sat down with a cup of tea than her father , an observant man , was asking , ‘ Are you going to tell us about it — or is it a secret ? ’ |
| 6 | We identify words not by virtue of any intrinsic qualities in them , but by virtue of their difference from one another , and it is therefore their differences which allow words to give meaning to things by dividing up the continuum of experience . |
| 7 | That development entailed a recognition that the concentration upon language by the school of logical positivism , within which Ayer 's dismissal of religious belief emerged , might not so much show up the meaninglessness of theology as elicit its own particular logic Wittgenstein 's thought appears to show a progression from concentrating upon language in order to exclude certain forms of thought — as in Ayer 's exclusion of metaphysics — towards concentrating upon language in order to make sense of those different forms in a way that was sensitive to their particular nature . |
| 8 | THE FRENCH have called in the troops to speed up the spread of computer learning . |
| 9 | They speeded up the spread of electricity until all homes were connected . |
| 10 | It was after six when she got home and started clearing up the detritus of lunch . |
| 11 | The students picked up the lack of concern on the part of their teachers and became indifferent . |
| 12 | The first Tay Bridge showed up the lack of expertise and foresight required for such a structure , no wind tunnels or sophisticated testing were available to the engineers in the late 1870s . |
| 13 | The recent Antarctic Treaty meeting [ see ED no. 41/42 ] pointed up the lack of research so far carried out . |
| 14 | How can the Labour party say that in the year when we opened up the whole of industry to competition , in the year when we tightened the price control and made it clear that the customer is high on our list of priorities ? |
| 15 | An objection which has been raised by Jürgen Moltmann ( see chapter 7 ) and by others who have been concerned to set our present time in the light of the eschatological emphasis of the New Testament is that Barth and his allies in the 1920s who aimed to recover that emphasis in fact misinterpreted it by twisting it into the ‘ eternal moment ’ of the encounter between time and eternity , ; and that his mature theology distorted it in a-different but equally damaging fashion by swallowing up the whole of time and history in the central history of Jesus Christ , and by dissolving that away in turn in the eternal self-determination of God within the council of the Trinity to be ‘ God for man ’ . |
| 16 | The distance is of a deep blue , and the near trees and grass of the freshest green ; for Constable could never consent to parch up the verdure of nature to obtain warmth . |
| 17 | Although the addition of fibres is a fairly effective way of making these materials tough it does put up the cost of manufacture and it also restricts the number of applications for which they are suitable . |
| 18 | It was one of many ‘ errors and omissions ’ pushing up the cost of road works according to the government 's National Audit Office . |
| 19 | It was given as an example of how design errors and omissions can push up the cost of road contracts . |
| 20 | Periodic bouts of fixed or artificially determined exchange rates have been the curse of this country for almost a hundred years — by pricing our goods out of world markets and , through high interest rates , by forcing up the cost of capital here . |
| 21 | At the least it is likely to drive up the cost of borrowing . |
| 22 | Recession is the culprit : it has slashed tax receipts and driven up the cost of unemployment benefits . |
| 23 | If the community really wants to tackle the problems of alcohol abuse it merely has to encourage the government to push up the cost of alcohol beyond the point of everyday affordability . |
| 24 | She checked herself so as not to rush and then advanced over-slowly , first took up the bottle of rum , poured a glass , then picked up a guinea , seemed , he thought ( and smiled ) to test it , pocketed it , brought him the rum . |
| 25 | He picked up the bottle of wine . |
| 26 | In addition China undertook to speed up the passage of legislation to enable accession to the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty by March 1992 ( China had agreed in August to sign the treaty — see p. 38395 ) . |
| 27 | Er most of my points have actually dried up now , sir , in view of what Mr Cunnane has said , and also Mr Jewitt , erm I do actually , I would try to emphasize a point that the people who are proposing new settlements in this location have judiciously avoided the question of need this afternoon , well I think we we almost came to the point this morning that the shortfall was nine hundred and reducing almost on a month by month basis , er one or two quick points I would like to pick up , er in view of the erm small nature or the shortfall in housing supply that we see over the next fifteen years , I can not accept that to avoid the new settlement option would be prejudicial to greenbelt objectives , erm the housing land supply allocations are almost there , there are plans to run through which will un almost inevitably allocate additional sites inside the inner edge of the greenbelt boundary and outside the outer edge of the greenbelt boundary , but both within Greater York , which are bound to assist in making up the shortfall of provision , and probably , if I suspect rightly , would actually exceed it , erm erm I agree with Mr Cunnane on the question of the alternative expansion of existing towns or settlements , the same point really , we 're almost there anyway , the op that option is already there , it 's not that it might be there , it is it is there at the moment , er it 's not a clear expression of local preference , and I would also point out the option of the environmental improvements under the P P G criteria you asked us to look at , erm whether it 's a thousand houses , two thousand , two and a half thousand , whether it has a bowling alley , or a ten pin bowling alley , and a B and Q , and a , probably a Tesco as well , this form of development will not sit comfortably in open countryside , almost , wherever it 's put within the Greater York area , I defy anyone to produce a site where one can satisfactorily put er such a massive form of urban development and suggest it 's a positive environmental improvement . |
| 28 | Lowell bent down and picked up the fragment of urn , wiping it with the palm of his hand . |
| 29 | Augmented by informal photographs , the contemporary words conjure up the feel of life in the 1930s , when cricket seems somehow to have been more wholesome and felicitous . |
| 30 | This inelegant but graphic import from American business vocabulary sums up the relevance of finance to the building surveying practice . |