Example sentences of "[to-vb] up a picture [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the UK , with only around 100 TBs on the register , the phrase ‘ that fast French aeroplane ’ is much more likely to conjure up a picture of the faithful Robin DR400 , a lovely aircraft but one which is in an altogether different class . |
| 2 | It was more difficult — and more intriguing — to conjure up a picture of her future husband , Dom João . |
| 3 | A well-known example is the motif in Schubert 's Erlkönig , which combines perfectly with the dashing octave triplets to conjure up a picture of the father 's wild gallop , with his dying son in his arms : |
| 4 | The trick is to use the person 's name to conjure up a picture in your mind . |
| 5 | Even though you might continue to build up a picture of the whole operation , it must be based upon an increasing number of assumptions — and assumptions might be wrong , with potentially catastrophic effects upon the correctness of your account of the family and its activities . |
| 6 | Detectives were interviewing the mother , who has asked not to be named , to build up a picture of the kidnapper . |
| 7 | This type of sequence could be used to build up a picture of a patient suffering from a specific condition . |
| 8 | This permits them to build up a picture of how the weather is changing virtually anywhere on Earth . |
| 9 | This picture emerges from an analysis of 715 applications to join 3i 's management buy-in programme which has enabled 3i to build up a picture of the business experience and personal characteristics of future MBI managers . |
| 10 | Whichever point the patient selects , that is the age from which I start to build up a picture of the character . |
| 11 | If this is the same person as the author of the Gospel then it is possible to build up a picture of him . |
| 12 | It is valuable to collect information from the family network , and from involved professionals , as by weighing up and balancing different contributions it is possible to build up a picture of recent events to complete an assessment . |
| 13 | At the opposite end of the spectrum , another solution is to excavate one large area without sections , but to build up a picture of the stratigraphy by recording the relationship of each layer to any adjoining layers . |
| 14 | As we have seen , this involves a considerable sorting of data in order to build up a picture of the site — to see , for example , what buildings existed there , and at what periods . |
| 15 | Careful sampling of such beds at close intervals by boring tools which reduce the risk of contamination to a minimum , followed by laboratory treatment designed to separate the pollen grains , allows the investigator to build up a picture of the vegetation conditions prevailing during the period of deposition of the bed . |
| 16 | From this remark , added to his earlier defence of his right to seclusion , Robbie was beginning to build up a picture of this man . |
| 17 | By studying the material on trustees in these enrolments for selected districts of Lincolnshire it is hoped to build up a picture of who they were , the ways in which they changed in the period of the study as well as any specific characteristics of the trustees of different denominations . |
| 18 | By looking at events that have taken place in Leicestershire over the past 90 years , this project aims to build up a picture of the long-term changes that have taken place in the levels and patterns of violence in various spheres of social life . |
| 19 | The random walk model could then be used to build up a picture of the possible range of river patterns that might develop in such circumstances . |
| 20 | The local historian who is trying to build up a picture of the social and economic structure of his own parish must always take into consideration the extent of the common and the value of the rights over it . |
| 21 | Pupils may be invited to play at being a detective to resolve some mystery , or they might investigate the contents of a seaman 's chest , a collection of craftsman 's tools , or a doctor 's bag , or a lady 's valise , for example to help pupils to build up a picture of the people who used them . |
| 22 | We 're trying to build up a picture of what happened before the event . |
| 23 | Using a technique perfected by medical artists , they hope to be able to build up a picture of what the princess would have looked like twenty centuries ago . |
| 24 | Erm so you need to build up a picture of what you 've got erm but there 's no real reason why we should n't be working on that now it seems to me . |
| 25 | The prehistory of Islay is not easily understood and one must use a great deal of imagination to build up a picture from what has been learnt by Investigation and excavation , bearing in mind that isolated pieces of evidence may be entirely unrepresentative of the normal life of the community . |
| 26 | It does take courage ( though perhaps not integrity ) to rip up a picture of the Pope on prime-time TV . |