Example sentences of "in [verb] up [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The experiments of the last 30 years in bringing up the young have failed . |
| 2 | In return , the IMF will send a mission to Lima to collaborate in drawing up a medium-term economic programme , and will seek financial support for Peru . |
| 3 | The Founding Fathers in drawing up the American Constitution had , after all , two aims , not one . |
| 4 | Tagg looked for prompt and well-considered short lists of candidates , shrewd advice and help in drawing up the brief and specification , and some form of guarantee and after-sales service . |
| 5 | In spite of the social dislocation and consumer privations that Stalinism wrought , it must be said that the ruthless and heavy-handed mobilisation of human and economic resources did succeed in achieving impressive growth rates and in building up a solid industrial infrastructure in what , with the exceptions of Germany and Czechoslovakia , had been largely agrarian countries . |
| 6 | ‘ He says he 's interested in building up a representative collection of primitive and tribal art , but when we tell him the best place to look is in his own back yard , as it were , he tells us he does n't want Abo art , ’ James said , trying unsuccessfully to pronounce the last two words of his sentence with what he imagined was an Australian accent . |
| 7 | The local church also plays a strategic role in building up a regional and national picture , the accuracy of which will depend upon the quality of the data which churches have amassed and are willing to divulge . |
| 8 | Even if you succeed in building up a good practice as a junior your troubles will not be at an end , because at that point in your career you will have to decide whether to apply for silk . |
| 9 | But I did n't think that order was the most important thing in building up a huge nightclub and casino empire , in a world full of sharks all wanting a slice of the action . |
| 10 | The narrower role of school liaison officers to some extent diminishes the usefulness of the police in building up a cross-community view . |
| 11 | The government , indeed , had made careful preparations , both in conserving fuel stocks and protecting the power network with the aid of other European nations , and also in building up the co-ordinating powers of the police nationally to deal with mass picketing . |
| 12 | So I am encouraged in my perhaps natural naïveté , I am encouraged to be simpliste , by my knowledge of the value of complication in fogging up the real issues in politics . |
| 13 | Whitney joined a select group comprising The Beatles , Queen , Elvis Presley , Cliff Richard and Band Aid in notching up a double success . |
| 14 | On neither occasion were the media at all interested in covering the good news ; they were interested only in hyping up the bad news . |
| 15 | Although the defection of Clarence , in particular , can only have enhanced Richard 's standing in the king 's eyes , the real contribution of the rebels to Gloucester 's advancement lay in opening up the existing power structure by removing several of Edward 's closest supporters . |
| 16 | Although the defection of Clarence , in particular , can only have enhanced Richard 's standing in the king 's eyes , the real contribution of the rebels to Gloucester 's advancement lay in opening up the existing power structure by removing several of Edward 's closest supporters . |
| 17 | At present , truckers can take a load from one country to another but face obstacles , as do airlines , in picking up a second load to take on to a third country . |
| 18 | No harm in picking up the extra dough , so long as I was doing my client 's work at the same time . ’ |
| 19 | As was seen earlier , overtime plays a much greater role in pushing up the average gross weekly earnings of the male manual than of the male non-manual worker . |
| 20 | In adding up the total output of the United Kingdom , for instance , there is no single physical unit of measurement that can be used : the millions of different types of goods and services are all measured in different units — for example , steel is measured in tonnes and cloth is measured in metres and it is , of course , impossible to add tonnes to metres . |
| 21 | Less enlightening is the thought behind the pacing of the ornamentation in the Op. 1 No. 7 Grave which , while succeeding in pointing up the larger ( almost Schenkerian ) structure of the movement , is ( to my ears ) at odds with the serenely poised Affekt Corelli seemingly envisaged . |
| 22 | An Arabic-speaking Tunisian-American , Habib was the son of Phillip Habib , a former government agent who had played a big part in breaking up the French Connection in Marseilles during the 1960s . |
| 23 | There was nothing particularly creditable in giving up an immoral life when you had fully satisfied that nagging curiosity . |
| 24 | Perhaps some forgiving souls might protest that former East German athletes had faced a particular difficulty in giving up the bad habits imposed on them by the success-seeking machine of the old Communist regime , and that it would be unfair virtually to close off their future just because they had n't yet properly learned another way of doing things . |
| 25 | So for the animal-watcher it becomes a challenge , with every brightly coloured species encountered , to find out what particular advantage there is in giving up the quiet life and facing daily exposure . |
| 26 | After teaching himself to juggle , the 27-year-old is now advertising for fellow Big Top devotees to join him in starting up a little troupe . |
| 27 | But what a difference a few days can make Saints crashed badly at home to Bradford Northern on the day when Doug Laughton 's men were giving arguably their best performance of the season in running up a convincing score against his old club Widnes . |
| 28 | He was engaged in tying up a large bundle of documents with red tape . |
| 29 | The mighty Great Eastern not only laid a new cable ; it succeeded in hauling up the earlier one splicing on a centre-piece , and lowering it again to the sea-bed . |
| 30 | Much would depend on the exact state of affairs in Ireland and something would depend on the success of the Progressive parties in patching up a new electoral pact ( although after the events of 1912 and 1913 it could not be expected to work as well as in 1910 ) , but all of these factors would operate in the broad context of a probable Unionist victory . |