Example sentences of "up [art] [noun] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We put patriotism and self-sacrifice into them , and there is no doubt that after they have learnt a certain amount of that , ’ he explained as he outlined his strategy to the National Defence Association , ‘ they will feel bound to take up the defence in one form or another , should it be necessary , when the time comes . ’ |
| 2 | No wonder , then , that when he came to write up the experience in Surprised by Joy he should have been so insistent that his father 's last illness and death ‘ does not really come into the story I am telling ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ It gobbled up the bird in one go , ’ said a mournful bird-watcher yesterday . |
| 4 | She picked up the foot in both her hands and nipped the jagged crescent with her teeth . |
| 5 | The heightened interest in underwater archaeology caused by the find of the Brindisi bronzes has prompted the new Ministro per i Beni Culturali , Alberto Ronchey , to propose changes in the law : first , to extend the limit of Italian territorial waters beyond the six miles off the coast currently in force and beyond the seabed on the continental shelf ( no distance has yet been specified ) ; second , to consider allocating underwater ‘ concessions ’ to non-government teams who would take a course in the theory and practice of underwater excavation and make up the shortfall in trained divers . |
| 6 | I have chopped up the Info in such a way as to make it Faxable on 2 sheets So I could do that too , at a pinch . |
| 7 | ‘ I bound up the wheat in little bunches . |
| 8 | They cluttered up the streets in noisy gatherings , swearing at passers-by , spitting on them , and sometimes assaulting and robbing them . |
| 9 | It might also instigate a system of writing up the objective in large letters for all to see . |
| 10 | and the they pick up the text in that way . |
| 11 | Have you considered the harm you may be causing to people , tearing up the past in this way ? |
| 12 | Andrea Paszti and Hans-Werner Bott ( marriage as well as business partners ) set up the gallery in 1988 in a former bookstore . |
| 13 | The BRU summed up the principles in eight points . |
| 14 | The plaintiff 's solicitor should draw up the schedule in four columns , for item number , description , amount claimed and the fourth , blank , for the defendant 's comments . |
| 15 | A great many green ideas were produced by Labour that summer ; a ‘ green bill ’ to show up the deficiencies in Tory legislation ; making the quality of life the central theme in the 1990 local elections ; the mobilization of public opinion through the development of a network of environmental , countryside and energy organizations . |
| 16 | Sir Norman Hartnell , who died in 1979 aged 77 , set up the firm in 1923 . |
| 17 | Stork set up the firm in 1973 , becoming operational with three employees in 1974 . |
| 18 | Since he took up the position in 1987 , closures of geriatric hospitals , partnership with the private sector , nurse regradings , NHS trusts and a review of maternity and acute services , which will cut over 1,000 hospital beds and possibly lead to a closure of a number of hospitals , are among the controversies which have raged . |
| 19 | I took up the tin-whistle in earnest |
| 20 | Amelia Edwards , travelling independently up the Nile in 1873 , recorded : ‘ the people in dahabeeyahs [ hired boats ] despise Cook 's tourists . ’ |
| 21 | Fairbrother had not picked up the emphasis in that suggestion , and Richard decided to let it go . |
| 22 | Of course it 's not easy to keep up the smiles in public , as the couple showed in Seoul yesterday when they arrived for a five-day Korean visit . |
| 23 | Even Japan has given up the fight in some market areas where they used to be world leaders : And even the new industrial nations , in their turn , will eventually be undercut and have to move on : To what ? |
| 24 | Another time in the same club he turned to me and said , ‘ The fellow on my other side went up the Irrawaddy in 1943 and he 's been taking me back there with him . |
| 25 | One reason is the need to clean up the mess in Eastern Europe left by Soviet military installations and sloppily run Communist mines and factories . |
| 26 | Everything depended on contributors picking up the bill in ten , twenty or thirty years . |
| 27 | She dreamed of floating up the aisle in frothy white , to stand beside a dark-suited figure . |
| 28 | Mrs Phillipa Grove took up the lease in 1782 and on her death her daughter , Miss Phillipa Grove renewed the tenancy and payed £44. 10s a year rent to Lord Pembroke . |
| 29 | Max Caulfield , in his biography of Mrs Whitehouse , sums up the argument in one sentence , saying ‘ as to the purpose of all this frenzy it was easy to explain that the forces of revolution , unable to achieve their objectives at the ballot box or , because of the existence of the nuclear bomb , by full-scale war , were endeavouring to encourage moral decay ’ . |
| 30 | Concerned about its lack of a voice in local radio , the Federal Government has now decided to reverse the policy of the previous military regime which broke up the NBC in 1978 . |