Example sentences of "up [prep] [art] [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | In resisting the sideways forces the daggerboard starts to behave like a sail and a force is set up between the high and low pressure sides of the foil ( F1 ) . |
| 2 | A draft agreement covering the ownership of works of art and the division of cultural property was among the scores of treaties and agreements drawn up between the Czech and Slovak Republics prior to the 1 January dissolution of the seventy-four-year-old state of Czechoslovakia . |
| 3 | but er , as I say I ca n't remember precisely , I just scanned it and give it to Mick who was out the door like , Lesley put her house up for a hundred and twenty six erm , one how much is it ? |
| 4 | MIDDLESBROUGH Bears , facing their first Homefire League match of the 1992 season in only two weeks ' time , need another good result against Glasgow at Cleveland Park tonight to fire them up for a long and hard campaign . |
| 5 | And then , when he could n't step back any further , he would walk forward , watching the shadow shrink before him until it ended up as a small and pathetic figure beneath his feet . |
| 6 | Paul is a good guy , but everyone is brought up as a liberal and everybody therefore thinks that we do n't have to do anything active about it . |
| 7 | John of Marmoutier tells the legend that Geoffrey le Bel dressed up as a rustic and listened to complaints about his prévôts ’ rapacity ; on his return to court , he paid back the sums they had extorted , and threatened them with death if they continued to defraud the peasantry . |
| 8 | While this is undoubtedly a cultural policy and programme which is intended to administer to " national unity " , it is dressed up as a scientific and national response to established " educational " needs . |
| 9 | In this case , as in others , television docudrama set itself up as the tidier and balancer of history . |
| 10 | Class divisions hitherto non-existent or only latent in English society were beginning to open up as the Agrarian and Industrial Revolutions gained momentum , and popular unrest was in the air . |
| 11 | The initiator of change can not , in the face of reluctance or merely token activity , be confident that every participant will end up as an active and confident partner . |
| 12 | One of the main outcomes of all this introspection was the setting up of an environmental and communities department to translate Roddick 's beliefs and concerns into practical projects . |
| 13 | Both body and clothing are made up of the black and the white — uncomplicated but striking — and her complexion shines like gold ( 3236 – 41 ; 3246 ; 3255 – 6 ) . |
| 14 | The Donaldson matter was petty and tiresome but much of office life was made up of the petty and tiresome . |
| 15 | Prominent among these organizations is the Trilateral Commission , made up of the great and good from the United States , Europe and Japan , whose business is ‘ Elite Planning for World Management ’ ( see Holly Sklar , 1980 ) . |
| 16 | The Reaver Knights are commonly made up of the wildest and most headstrong sons of the noble houses . |
| 17 | The Reaver Knights are made up of the wildest and most headstrong sons of the noble houses . |
| 18 | Ruth said , piping up like a bright and confident pupil , ‘ I asked the man . |
| 19 | In this way , new requests for credit may run up against a powerful and undeniably sensible combination of background knowledge and personal experience which rules them out , even when the applicant whose personal circumstances ring these alarm bells would have been a satisfactory payer . |
| 20 | She was in her tiny attic bedroom , sitting up in bed , propped up against a hard and lumpy pillow , sitting on a hard and lumpy mattress . |
| 21 | Other writers have emphasized the narrow social strata from which judges are drawn and have questioned the degree to which they are able to relate to ordinary people and to stand up against the powerful and the rich . |
| 22 | It 's time to wrap up against the cold and go hunting for a convertible . |
| 23 | This puts a healthy pressure on the insurer to provide good quality policies and back them up with a fast and fair administrative and claims service . |
| 24 | A fast stage-coach could now cover over a hundred miles in a single day , good roads and weather permitting , though comfort was not necessarily to be looked for and there was an outside chance of ending up with a foul-mouthed and drunken coachman for the length of the journey . |
| 25 | It came up with a risky and controversial course of action : close the county 's ‘ surplus ’ long-stay residential homes and reinvest in specialist community-based services for elderly people . |
| 26 | The EC dragged its feet before coming up with a reluctant and minimal proposal to reform farm trade . |
| 27 | Ballesteros , who has won the title four times , opened up with a 66 and enjoyed a comfortable lunch , sitting on a cushion of a five-hole lead . |
| 28 | Callinicos ' conclusion to these arguments is that despite their efforts , built around a claimed contrast of the postmodern either with or within Modernism , these authors have produced only ‘ mutually and often internally inconsistent accounts ’ of the ‘ postmodern ’ , manifesting an ‘ inability to come up with a plausible and coherent account of its distinguishing characteristics ’ ( p. 28 ) . |
| 29 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that there would not be nearly so many such companies if they had to put up with the economic and industrial policies of the Labour party ? |
| 30 | Thereafter , print quality was as good as any inkjet I 've seen — right up with the BJ-200 and slightly better than the DeskJet 500 . |