Example sentences of "up [prep] [art] [noun] [vb -s] " in BNC.

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1 From time to time , taking one to lunch or meeting up for a drink gives you a chance to talk shop and learn about the other 's work and publications .
2 ‘ Puckering up for a kiss exercises 12 muscles , so do the same there .
3 W.J.J. Gordon wrote in his book on Synectics about hedonic response being the joy and ecstasy of the creative process , and he mentioned a factor in the joy of creativity is the release of tension that builds up as a scientist strives to solve a problem and I would further add the pleasure and relief of self-fulfilment which is a fundamental human need .
4 Repertoires of schemata are built up as an organism adapts to its environment .
5 The freedom in the growing up of the child allows a fixation to the pregenital phase and facilitates regression to it .
6 The setting up of the agency has aroused strong emotions , but there are widespread misunderstandings about it .
7 Then , back up into the sky explodes the ‘ jump-jet ’ harrier and over the heath he sails .
8 You had to use this sort of thing like find it up in a mess has n't it ?
9 Higher up in the range comes the 355 the 365 and the 375 .
10 A colour brochure I picked up in the hall speaks of the ‘ 27 acres of secluded grounds with magnificent views over the Moray Firth and the Ross-shire hills beyond … imposing combination of Georgian and Scottish Baronial architecture … four course table d'hôte menu of very high class plus an à la carte menu including a range of steaks charcoal grilled … ’ : no mention of David Thomson .
11 King Charles VII won Bayonne back from the foreigners in 1451 after a siege and , if a plaque set up in the cathedral has it right , with a little supernatural help .
12 Finally , in April , 1988 , an agenda for withdrawal - many would say retreat - was drawn up in the Geneva accords : all 115,000 Soviet troops in Afghanistan would be pulled out by February 15 , 1989 .
13 Up in the chestnut branches girls and boys were clambering about , hitting at the spiked green conkers and knocking them down on to the heads below .
14 She would lose contact with William and Harry and , as heirs to the throne , the two princes would continue to be brought up within the Palace confines regardless of their mother 's whereabouts .
15 Ships driven by revolving metal pillars sticking up from the deck sounds like Victorian science fiction .
16 Up from the river chugs a little blue train .
17 The streets ran in a regular criss-cross pattern sloping up from the Railway Works which lay behind a high camouflaged wall .
18 A TEI conformant document must be describable by means of a dtd built up from the TEI tagsets according to a set of rules documented within the Guidelines , defining how tagsets may be combined and modified .
19 The alacrity with which northerners enlisted for military service whenever warfare flared up on the Border speaks for itself .
20 I think that that will ensure two things : first , greater equality of action across the Community ; and , secondly , to a greater degree than ever before that every nation that signs up to a directive considers in detail the implications and costs of that directive before it becomes law .
21 Keeping a quick-changing all action-show like Barnum up to the mark needs not only a completely dedicated cast of performers .
22 A preliminary account of events up to the mid-1970s has already been given for both locales , which will stand as an account for Cramlington but some elaboration is necessary for North Shields .
23 He wants to come in , but a glance up to the bridge tells me he expects a vast crowd to appear out of nowhere , the minute he strips naked .
24 Yet , one of the catchwords that has been widely heard in Washington and elsewhere during the run up to the war has been the need to create a democratic environment in the Middle East after the war is over .
25 For the centuries up to the Tudor times the main instrument of local government outside the boroughs was the manor court , and the best introduction to the whole subject remains Life on the English Manor by H.S. Bennett .
26 The gully is steep and rough but not beyond the ability of an average walker , and leads unerringly to the depression on the ridge , whence a simple climb up to the right leads to the summit cairn of Caisteal Liath .
27 If there is sufficient clearance between spring an bump stop , then leave alone , but as you ask about extended shackles , I suspect the axle is up to the bump stops .
28 True enough , the preparatory process leading up to the summit has got badly bogged down , and the number of logjams to be cleared between now and June will keep the UNCED secretariat in hectic action 24 hours a day , seven days a week .
29 A special unit set up by the Government has now traced more than half the cash which was spirited away by the late Robert Maxwell .
30 A separate list drawn up by the Trust includes ten other monuments by Soane , ranging from the column in the park at Lemmington Hall , Northumberland to an obelisk at Boconnoc in Cornwall .
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