Example sentences of "from [verb] up [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that it stopped her from gobbling up every cultural titbit dropped before her . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , London University 's proposal that the Witt should become self-financing comes just as the Getty computer programme is ending its support of the Witt Computer Index because it has changed its policy from building up a vast database of its own to producing systems for accessing other databases . |
| 3 | Only time and a falling tide prevented him from going up a nearby church tower and filming us again . |
| 4 | The vibration from breaking up the concrete floor certainly would disturb your fish but there is also the added problem of lime dust from the work contaminating the pond . |
| 5 | It is the argument of this book that many of the reasons for this are organizational , and that a very considerable change in attitudes and practice results from taking up the administrative implications of all aspects of resource-based learning ( audio-visual , print-form and other ) and putting them to hand . |
| 6 | The loss from taking up the unsubscribed shares is calculated as the difference between the market price on the last day of the offer and the subscription price , where n is equal to the number of shares taken up by the underwriters , P , i , m ; is the market price on the last day of the offer , P , i , s ; is the subscription price . |
| 7 | Alcohol does not mimic a neurotransmitter , but at least some of its effects come from messing up the same synapses that heroin works on . |
| 8 | But fifty miles away in Gloucester the same laws have stopped Yvonne Bremer from setting up a female taxi business altogether . |
| 9 | It declared that ‘ no tricks and manoeuvres of the corrupt Korean reactionaries who are the bosses of S. Korea will distract the Korean people from setting up a single democratic Korea ’ . |
| 10 | Some leading MEPs believe an alliance with reform-minded MPs must be struck if leaders like Mrs Thatcher are to be prevented from setting up an economic and monetary union , which is essentially uncontrolled by any democratically-elected body . |
| 11 | No two candidates will respond to questions in exactly the same way so you must keep a fair amount of flexibility in your approach — it would be wrong to stop a candidate from following up an interesting and potentially revealing answer simply because it is not coming at the designated point in your schedule . |