Example sentences of "up [art] [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had contributed time and money freely to causes in which he believed , and his energy was a vital factor in the completion of the Trent and Mersey canal , which opened up the continental trade and reduced transport costs through its connection with Hull and Liverpool . |
| 2 | Even the rain no longer seemed fresh : it congealed in the sullied air , splattering into filthy stinking puddles , hammering the roof and churning up the packed mud until it was slushy and loose . |
| 3 | Well alright , but can you , can you not get rid of a couple of the boxes and what 's this thing there ? well why do n't you tip it up the other way and give yourself a bit more room , tomorrow Deana what 's that , your dictionary ? |
| 4 | In fact my gynaecologist looked up the other day and said , ‘ Dame Edna , when will you stop giving ? ’ |
| 5 | Yet another rarity turned up the other day and which I illustrate here . |
| 6 | I said erm I said to Alison oh aye cos she rang up the other day and I asked her if she 'd found a fella . |
| 7 | Can I just say that er Ray phoned me up the other day and he said er , would you be prepared to take part in probationers ' , er regional probationary sort of training day er which is at coming up er in a few months time , to give erm presentation skills er I part of what we were doing , erm but just those O H Ps that we did on that part . |
| 8 | Cos I 'd cleaned it up the other day cos it had mildew on the bottom of it ! |
| 9 | I woke up the other morning and I thought , once you married for company , and now you marry the company . |
| 10 | On reaching the face drop down to the toe of the rocks then climb steeply back up the other side until North West Gully is reached ( 15 minutes ) . |
| 11 | Chanel sums up the new colour and shape of accessories . |
| 12 | The theological colleges were eager to take up the new opportunities and transfer the teaching of arts subjects to the new colleges and universities . |
| 13 | But Haslam points out that the competitor who takes up the new technology when the patents expire does not suffer from this halo effect . |
| 14 | Little boys of seven , bandy-legged as old men expertly running for cover , little girls of five or six remembering , more often than not , to pick up the new baby and last year 's baby , to grab the two-year-old , the three-year-old before they ran off too . |
| 15 | During the second half of the sixteenth century , hundreds of medieval sculptures and carved images of saints were destroyed or removed , the colourful wall-paintings which had decorated most churches were whitewashed , stained glass was shattered or taken away , and the rood lofts which had held up the great crucifixes and figures of the Virgin Mary and St John were pulled down . |
| 16 | Corbett bowed , withdrew , and spent the rest of the time kicking his heels in an antechamber before a servant imperiously summoned him up the great staircase and ushered him into a brilliantly decorated room . |
| 17 | Assume for example that Ford and General Motors between them are in a position to buy up the Great Lakes and pollute them as much as they desire in order to reduce the costs against such an action . |
| 18 | But to handle them directly , that is , to open up the central issue that arouses the pain , sensationalism or the controversy is not necessarily the best way of protecting children into emotion . |
| 19 | The task of ordering the Church 's worship is too awesome to be left to chance , either in the hope that the person responsible for it will pick up the necessary skills or in the belief that it can be done by anyone . |
| 20 | One of the first steps taken was to set up the European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme ( EMEP ) to measure emissions and deposition of sulphur and nitrogen oxides in Europe . |
| 21 | General Alexander and his troops carried out a magnificent fighting retreat and held up the Japanese advance until the rains broke , thus saving four months ' valuable time in which preparations could be made to repel the Japs if they attempted to invade India . |
| 22 | June 1941 , German forces launched their surprise attack and were able to break up the Russian formations and take a huge number of prisoners . |
| 23 | Pepita began to pick up the fallen bananas and place them back in their crate . |
| 24 | In addition to tightening up the compulsory admission and detention procedures , the new Act tries to deal with the difficult issue of consent to treatment . |
| 25 | Terry has portioned up the mighty delta and has wisely opted to do the undersides during the winter ! |
| 26 | Where the spectral bands making up the multispectral TM or MSS image are highly correlated then more of the information contained in the multispectral image will be compressed into principal component 1 than would be the case if the intercorrelations among the bands were low . |
| 27 | Whose gentle breathings , heard in this deep calm , Fill up the interspersed vacancies And momentary pauses of the thought ! |
| 28 | The introductions last year of massively parallel machines by the likes of Intel Corp , Thinking Machines Corp opened up the parallel market and led to forecasts that they would eventually replace the vector machines first developed by Seymour Cray , who did his pioneering work at the then Control Data Corp before moving on to found Cray Research Inc and then Cray Computer Corp . |
| 29 | If the pattern is in rectangular blocks , the needles that are slipping ( that is , not knitting ) pull up the adjacent knitting and prevent the needles that are slipping from knitting properly . |
| 30 | She placed the receiver down and reached to the table top , picking up the silenced gun and holding it gently in both hands . |