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

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1 One way to ward off these unwelcome little indicators of stress would seem obvious — immediately give up the exercise that brings them on , and reach for a stiff , hugely relaxing drink .
2 He held up the tent-flap that led to the theatre .
3 ‘ This part of the kitchen was originally a coal shed and it was a very dark and dingy area , ’ Pauline explains , ‘ so we knocked down the adjoining wall and opened up the staircase that comes down into the corner of the kitchen .
4 Joseph 's people pulled up the stakes that the surveyors planted , but after the ratification of the Thief Treaty the next year , they continued to arrive .
5 As expected , the main thrust of the release is to tidy up the way that the system will work in large enterprises by presenting the network as a single system rather than a collection of individual servers needing separate logins .
6 We are also accountable through the press and local radio in terms that all our work , unlike many other professional bodies , all our work is constantly on show and critics are invited to see and assess and attend and write up the work that we fund , and those criticisms appear in local and regional press daily .
7 I think the main thing is there 's about six hours sort of realistically speaking of really good quality hours to be on your B M S set during the day , and just to sort of add up the hours that you are actually on the phone making outgoing calls , sort of brings it home to you .
8 Convex Computer Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co last week said they are hotting up the alliance that saw Hewlett take a 5% stake in Convex last year with a potentially substantial technology exchange to plug the massively parallel applications gap .
9 Convex Computer Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co yesterday said that they are hotting up the alliance that saw Hewlett take a 5% stake in Convex last year with a potentially substantial technology exchange to plug the massively parallel applications gap .
10 The 1970s and 80s saw the development of models which took up the thesis that the mass media were not passive or neutral channels but exerted active influence to the advantage of select social groups .
11 Camcorder microphones are contrary devices : sometimes they fail to pick up the sounds that they should , and sometimes they hear things that they should n't .
12 So simply making up the calcium that astronauts excrete may not ensure that it is laid down properly in new bone .
13 A more equivocal comment that perhaps best sums up the evaluations that led to RCA has been made by Timmons ( 1980 ) : ‘ While these measures [ in soil conservation ] have seldom attained goals , increases in soil erosion were minimised and occasionally soil losses reduced .
14 I started off the way I write every album — wrote a couple of songs , got a feel for the music and called up the musicians that I thought I could do the songs with .
15 Delaney tore himself away , going back up the stairway that was the only way out , and back in the direction that the creature was coming .
16 MANCHESTER UNITED yesterday settled into an uneasy peace after a face-saving operation by which Martin Edwards and Michael Knighton mutually agreed to tear up the contract that would have sold the club to Knighton .
17 Exercise can burn up the adrenalin that worry , fear and frustration create , leaving the body relaxed and rested .
18 A figure in a brown shirt stepped out from behind the bushes and stooping , picked up the leaflets that Fred had left lying on his jacket .
19 Yet he could n't quite drum up the enmity that seemed necessary in the circumstances , and that fact quite pleased him , for it proved what an enduring thing male friendship was , even if Jim did look to him less than his old self , and over-dressed in foreigners ' plumes that must have cost a packet in duty , the jacket obviously being pure wool .
20 Accumulated evidence from recent research , combined with ancient traditions , all help to build up the conviction that we are dealing with a real , but elusive , energy which people have recognized throughout history , and particularly at special places in the countryside .
21 Hunt was not alone in picking up the broadcasts that Joyce now made from the Reichsrundfunk studios , relayed through Hamburg , Zeesen and Bremen .
22 The hypnotic induction procedure sets up the circumstances that encourage the subject to enter this ‘ trance ’ state .
23 How do you pick up the ones that need correcting ?
24 A month after the DUP crossed the floor , the British government in London gave up the hope that the Northern Ireland government could restore order and suspended Stormont .
25 It 's not a hard walk up the spur that leads to the summit , and the lust to be able to see far into the rough bounds of Knoydart hiding behind Sgurr Thuilm will motivate even the most indolent hiker .
26 IN this chapter I want to search with you for the spirit of place , to conjure up the spirit that will give life and breath to descriptions of places .
27 well suited or well fitted with the , with the stuff that , you know , you 've , you 've got erm I mean that 's probably the best way to do it and I also find actually trying to write things sh myself shows up the holes in arguments , shows up the bits that you need yet to fill in sort of thing
28 Yet , recognition of that extension might at the same time open up the possibility that vulnerable people who do not desire death , despite their suffering , might be killed by others for reasons of their own : this would subvert the right to self-determination , and is an argument against a mercy-killing defence or offence .
29 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 .
30 A recent outbreak of aggregate reactions in the concrete transformer bases of 11 electricity power stations has thrown up the possibility that most of the sands and gravels removed from the Trent valley ( one of the most widely-used sources of aggregates in Britain ) may contain the forms of silica that cause the reaction .
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