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

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1 The whole house smelled of it , of lost youth shrivelled up into a kind of dust .
2 For we were seized up into a kind of ritual which seemed afterwards to have its formal cadences like a dance .
3 Its head was down and its back sloped up into a kind of point at the rear .
4 The suggestion is that the other dimensions are curved up into a space of very small size , something like a million million million million millionth of an inch .
5 I had enough breath left to shout that they should be ashamed of themselves , spitting out the dirt from my mouth , and working myself up into a state of high , excited indignation .
6 I crawl , I kiss your arse , do everything — ’ She had worked herself up into a state of almost incoherent fury , like a child in a tantrum , tears streaming down her face and her whole body shaking in a sort of passion as she suddenly flew at him , clawing with her nails .
7 The fact that I can take pleasure in each day as it comes , that I do n't churn myself up into a state of hyperactive neuroticism ? ’
8 Single widths of printed muslin are made up into a pair of 3-metre curtains .
9 For one speechless moment she stared up into a pair of devil-dark eyes , then abruptly came to her senses and tried to break away .
10 And suddenly , as an uproar began in her , Azor was forgotten , and she jerked to stand upright , and found she was looking straight up into a pair of dark smouldering eyes .
11 It came down like an oily green avalanche , piling up into a mountain of folds , but no one bothered about it because the sun shone through the dusty , cobwebbed windows and made Jekub glow .
12 The battle broke up into a series of duels across the skies of Scotland , from Edinburgh to North Berwick .
13 The spatial quantisation scheme in k -space then breaks up into a series of concentric circles about the field 's direction ( Figure 3 ) .
14 Some scholars have assumed that the Minoans worshipped a Great Goddess , the Mediterranean ‘ Magna Mater ’ , and that they later divided her up into a series of more specialized divinities .
15 Although the Victoria was not an especially large establishment , it backed onto an old warehouse that had at one time been split down the middle and then divided up into a series of small rooms that all opened onto a single long corridor .
16 And in late 1966 , the Rolling Stones wound themselves up into a pitch of fury with ‘ Have You Seen Your Mother , Baby , Standing In The Shadow ? ’ , one of the most nihilistic records ever made .
17 When a length has been rigged between one radial cable and another , she gives it a twang with one of her legs and the glue breaks up into a line of beads .
18 Any one ‘ gene ’ in the functional sense , is in fact split up into a sequence of fragments ( exons ) separated by meaningless introns .
19 So a violent kind of self-accelerating process would take place , with the magma rapidly blowing itself up into a froth of gas and liquid rock and blasting itself clear out of the vent .
20 Gerstner told the IBM Corp meeting in Tampa , Florida that he does not intend to ‘ lay out a grand scheme ’ for the company : ‘ There has been a lot of speculation , ’ Reuter reports him saying , ‘ that I am going to unveil some great plan , ’ Gerstner said ; ‘ You will see actions , and our actions will speak for themselves , ’ but added that some actions will not emerge until 1994 ; he described it as not entirely accurate to describe IBM 's strategy as ‘ splitting it up into a bunch of little pieces , ’ and added that the dividend may change based on IBM 's performance and outlook ; ‘ We ca n't expect quick fixes , ’ Gerstner told more than 3,000 shareholders at the meeting , ‘ But I do dare to ask your patience , ’ he said ; his top priority is to get IBM 's layoffs completed and ‘ rightsize ’ the company — ‘ I want to get it behind us so we can say to those remaining , ‘ You are are our team , ’ ’ he said ; he acknowledged several times that IBM 's bureaucracy had hampered the company , and elsewhere it was reported that he has ordered managers to dispense with the customary slides and flip charts when they address him — ‘ IBM has changed but some would say not fast enough , ’ but ‘ We can bring IBM back , ’ Gerstner said .
21 Goldie is swept up into a whirlwind of greetings and kisses .
22 ‘ In my youth ’ , says Baxter , ‘ I was quickly past my fundamentals and was running up into a multitude of controversies , and greatly delighted with metaphysical and scholastic writings . ’
23 It 's called the N tuple method is because the first thing we do is to take that image and break it up into a set of tuples each of N in size .
24 Once this point has been reached there will be a rapid reduction in the number of non-reproductive males , and the large units will be broken up into a number of smaller ones , in part through takeovers and in part through fission of units containing followers .
25 Canadian station-building styles can be divided up into a number of periods .
26 The embryo has been broken up into a number of regions whose development is largely independent of one another .
27 This is a relatively simple process and divides the egg up into a number of smaller cells from which the embryo will develop .
28 In fact , it was much more common for colonies to break up into a number of separate units as they grew larger .
29 The four broad types I have mentioned account for a very large proportion of governmental activity , but each could be divided up into a number of smaller functions .
30 Although by 1086 the Barton estate had been split up into a number of manors , of which only one was still in the hands of the king himself , there can be little doubt that before the Conquest the Anglo-Saxon kings had had here an estate of some seven thousand acres which they kept in hand for their own supplies .
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