Example sentences of "this [vb -s] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This builds up the muscles which locate the knee joint , helping to stop it moving above and grinding up bits of cartilage . |
| 2 | This points up a second mystery . |
| 3 | This points up the possibility that the organizational differences built into the preliminary study may be only surface ones , masking ‘ deeper ’ structures of thinking about the nature of social work . |
| 4 | This uses up the energy of the photon , so it is absorbed . |
| 5 | This shows up the reason for this tough line which , unfortunately , is no longer the stance that the Court of Appeal now unequivocally adopts . |
| 6 | This conjures up the picture of Thomas the disciple who refused to believe that Jesus was alive again after being killed and buried unless he could see with his own eyes the evidence of the injuries Jesus 's body had received . |
| 7 | Island-hopping by coconut timber dhotis is the way the natives travel ; for guests to the Maldives this opens up a world of coves gently lapped by crystal-clear waters , underwater coral mazes and watersporting opportunities — alternatives to basking on the shores of an isolated stretch of sand . |
| 8 | This opens up a directory browser so that you can navigate across the disks and down through the directory structure to find the program you want ( in this case QFTD.EXE ) . |
| 9 | This opens up the prospect of developing the preliminary work done by Zamecnick , Stephenson and others into a general strategy for anti-viral therapy . |
| 10 | This opens up the possibility of negotiations between the Commission and the parties concerned and the Commission has shown itself willing to resolve cases on the basis of undertakings in [ two ] of the [ five ] proceedings it has brought to date . |
| 11 | If the performance can be staged specially for video , this opens up the possibility of bringing in extra lamps and interrupting the action at agreed points to shift the lighting round to suit the camera . |
| 12 | If the marker uses semi-standard annotations ( e.g. ‘ Style-sheet not used : … ‘ ) , this opens up the possibility of writing a checking program that analyses the annotations in some marked work and checks whether the mark suggested by the annotations is seriously out of line with the given mark . |
| 13 | Among other things , this opens up the multiculturalists and antiracists to the very charge of propaganda and indoctrination which they level at the textbooks , authors and teachers they are attempting to challenge . |
| 14 | This chapter has suggested that in the majority of large public companies the separation of ownership and control is a reality , and that this opens up the possibility that in some of them , subject to the variable constraining influence of market forces , managements will pursue deviant goals and/or shirk . |
| 15 | Perhaps this opens up the idea of the Government substituting depreciation accounting in place of principal repayments of loans but imposing the same control over the depreciation charge that it imposes on the minimum revenue provision . |
| 16 | This opens up the route for having a company a partner and allocating to the company partner such share of the profits as the partners think appropriate in each year . |
| 17 | This breaks up the upper crust of the snow and produces , in the long run , a piste which is firmer , and therefore better able to withstand 140 racers . |
| 18 | It is not very good , you see , on Government responsibility and this takes up a lot of time . |
| 19 | This backs up the evidence unveiled in TODAY yesterday showing that people are once again out in big numbers in UK shopping centres and malls . |
| 20 | This throws up a wealth of stems furnished with palish green leaves , comprised of lance-shaped leaflets , above which rise erect plumes of minute flowers , closely packed along the stems like pearls . |
| 21 | This picks up the transmitter 's signal and makes it audible to our ears when the ferret is within range . |
| 22 | A particular field in one table can appear in another table , even if everything else in the second table is different ; this sets up a relationship between the tables — hence the name — which can be exploited by the database manager . |
| 23 | This sets up a desirable chain of movements so giving a correct position at the top of the backswing which allows the player to swing the clubhead back to the ball on the right path , that is , from inside-to-straight , or as a theory has it , from in-to-out . |
| 24 | Obviously this puts up the system cost over long distances . |
| 25 | This brings up a dialogue box , where you type in the necessary alterations . |
| 26 | Perhaps more generally useful is right clicking on the normal text entry area — this brings up the Modify Style dialog box — or in the border around the page when you are in the default Layout Mode — which brings up the Modify Page Layout dialog box . |
| 27 | ‘ Not that a case like this comes up every day . |
| 28 | Because I mean they 're being e I 've lived here twenty three years , this comes up every three or four years this dog business . |
| 29 | However , none of this makes up a complete education and training programme for a building surveyor : it is only the first part , the second being the professional training component culminating in the Test of Professional Competence . |
| 30 | This blocks up the jets and air passages in the carb leading to the engine stopping . |