Example sentences of "up [art] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In this case , all deficiencies would be notified more sensibly up the tree from user to parent , and so on .
2 Okay and saw C commands herself because if you go up the tree from saw to the first branching node , you 'll find that branching node also dominates herself .
3 On March 2 Pedro Mendes Jurado became the new Attorney General ; he stated that he would step up the battle against terrorism and drug trafficking .
4 Mr. Crowther picked up the papers in front of him and set them down again very neatly .
5 Presumably , too , A sets up the defence of necessity ; we are not expressly told that there was ( or that A thought there was ) no other way of saving the leader 's life , but this is a fair inference from the question .
6 James denied it categorically , but the fact is that after a small part of another season in Walter Wolf 's car , Master James gave up the sport with relief .
7 One way is to crawl up the staircase of preferment on your belly ; the other way is to kick them in the teeth .
8 The old man looked up the staircase in front of them .
9 Habermas 's later work has opened up the way for communication to be studied as a social practice and has identified it as a dimension of social being largely absent in Marx 's account .
10 And she 'd away back up the way to bed again .
11 This creates charitable understanding and opens up the way to conversion through ‘ a constant appeal to the head and the heart . ’
12 Now artistic intention can be seen more clearly as just one of many often overlapping strands — ideological , economic , social , political — that make up the work of art , whether literary text , painting , or sculpture .
13 The bloke behind the counter said , look , I 've just got to go and look up the year of manufacture , I 'll be back in a couple of minutes .
14 It is doubtful if you look up the word for baggage retrieval , and then look for a sign with those words .
15 The ‘ specially urgent need to take whatever steps were immediately possible to improve the safety testing of drugs ’ in the light of the thalidomide disaster led the Joint Sub-Committee on Safety of Drugs to set up the Committee on Safety of Drugs in 1963 .
16 Fabia could n't help picking up the air of excitement about her , and realised that she was n't the only one when barely had they sat down with a cup of tea than her father , an observant man , was asking , ‘ Are you going to tell us about it — or is it a secret ? ’
17 Driver of Vickers Laboratories explained the procedure : ‘ You shake up the sample in carbon tet to extract the oil , dry it , and run an IR spectrum in the crucial region because it has no C-C bonds .
18 We identify words not by virtue of any intrinsic qualities in them , but by virtue of their difference from one another , and it is therefore their differences which allow words to give meaning to things by dividing up the continuum of experience .
19 At this stage the author uses the light box to see through the paper , and by turning over the paper it is possible to drawn in with pencil on the reverse , a rough copper track layout which will link up the components in accordance with the circuit diagram .
20 That development entailed a recognition that the concentration upon language by the school of logical positivism , within which Ayer 's dismissal of religious belief emerged , might not so much show up the meaninglessness of theology as elicit its own particular logic Wittgenstein 's thought appears to show a progression from concentrating upon language in order to exclude certain forms of thought — as in Ayer 's exclusion of metaphysics — towards concentrating upon language in order to make sense of those different forms in a way that was sensitive to their particular nature .
21 Hocazade soon gave up the kadilik in order to devote himself more fully to but remained as muderris in Iznik until the death of Mehmed II ( 886/1481 ) .
22 Intruding on a newly married couple sounded a textbook mistake when he surveyed it , but plainly both of them were glad he was there ; he could see it in their faces and ran up the platform with joy , not shy at all about the reflection of his hurtling bulk in the glass of a newsagent 's stall .
23 THE FRENCH have called in the troops to speed up the spread of computer learning .
24 They speeded up the spread of electricity until all homes were connected .
25 It was after six when she got home and started clearing up the detritus of lunch .
26 Any attempt to open up the convolutions of farm policy to public scrutiny is bound to be seen as a threat to those with an interest in the status quo .
27 The directors of the firm kindly gave B U permission to borrow a Tacker for the exhibition and after Le Leicester branch arranged a temporary replacement , Taffy began working , cleaning up the machine to showroom condition .
28 And if a strange person is walking up the driveway with intention of breaking in at least somebody may notice it .
29 The students picked up the lack of concern on the part of their teachers and became indifferent .
30 The first Tay Bridge showed up the lack of expertise and foresight required for such a structure , no wind tunnels or sophisticated testing were available to the engineers in the late 1870s .
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