Example sentences of "it [verb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next developments involved spectroscopy. the study of the sharp coloured lines resolved by a prism when it splits up the light emitted by a heated specimen . |
| 2 | doctrine of original sin under the guise of a genetically determined bio-grammar of cultural values , by colleagues who would clearly like to think of themselves as hard-boiled scientific rationalists , both amusing and disconcerting ; but it points up the difficulties of the problem ! |
| 3 | The programme does not apportion blame , or claim a conclusive link , but it points up the lack of long-term monitoring on people working with the chemicals , and suggests warning labels on the products do not always make clear what type of protective clothing is suitable . |
| 4 | It points up the importance of admissions , and suggests that the assessment of a course may ‘ wash back ’ on its content and aims . |
| 5 | and put your heel down and it clips up the back , it was like |
| 6 | But I do n't drink very much — it slows up the reflexes and I play squash and tennis two or three times a week . ’ |
| 7 | Nevertheless , the greenhouse effect is so efficient that this energy becomes trapped to the extent that it drives up the surface temperatures to the observed values . |
| 8 | Undramatic in its effect and narrow in its scope , highly forgettable and often forgotten by historians , it made up the bulk of parliamentary business . |
| 9 | I mean I think the first is that the kind of evidence one picks up , none of it on its own can be considered , I think , to be totally objective or totally valid , but what it does is it builds up a part of a picture and gradually different sorts of evidence build up a rather more complicated , rather more perhaps accurate picture of a situation , and it 's really the cross-checking of different kinds of evidence that in the end gives the thing some kind of validity . |
| 10 | Over the summer it builds up a surplus of fat and as autumn draws on it returns to an underground burrow . |
| 11 | By drawing together a variety of material , it builds up a picture of inequity which ‘ is inexcusable in a democratic society which prides itself on being humane ’ . |
| 12 | When the team trusts itself it builds up a view not simply about the one school and what needs to be done in small detail but also about the pressures and demands of society as a whole . |
| 13 | It builds up the foundations of the grammar system and essential vocabulary , as appropriate to the learner 's needs at this level . |
| 14 | An onshore wind will also be difficult since it builds up the waves into difficult chop which can break on the beach with mast-breaking force . |
| 15 | Outside a car revved up its engine as it changed up a gear only to screech to a halt at the corner and roar off again . |
| 16 | How large were the , were the classes with these influx of all these , di did it boost up the numbers in the ? |
| 17 | But , because it tones up the muscles and firms the body , you may well lose inches . |
| 18 | It was low and cracked to begin with , then it rose up the scale , eerily , and shook out its top notes across the damp , half-lit glade until I really did think that my father had come not from the hospital but from some horribly , cold , empty region that lies in wait for us instead of all the heavens we have dreamed up to make things bearable . |
| 19 | It heads up a pop promotion with a wonderful shout line : A-WOP-BOP-A-SIDGWICK-A-LOP-BAM-PAN ! ! |
| 20 | After this it heads up the 600ft Berrow Hill to go on to Berrow Green and then Ankerdine Hill . |
| 21 | And no , I do n't think it holds up the action . |
| 22 | ‘ It mangles up the clothes , she says . |
| 23 | Er it speeds up a reaction , it is n't used in the reaction , it just speeds it up . |
| 24 | It speeds up the game and takes controversy away ’ . |
| 25 | I had it turned up a bit too loud . |
| 26 | Used it to patch up the hole in our roof . |
| 27 | Now before you do anything , if we set set it to pick up the Panasonic K X P Eleven Twenty Four |
| 28 | Clive uses the Chevvy like a normal family car … he takes it to work and uses it to pick up the shopping . |
| 29 | We are not in the business of expecting other people who can ill afford it to pick up the cost of a single person 's discount for the rich . |
| 30 | You can teach it to pick up the broom , but how does it avoid knocking over the potted plant ? ’ |