Example sentences of "up [art] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a bid to boost environmentally-friendly tourism , the Broads Authority and Eastern Electricity have set up the first of a series of recharging points for electric boats on the northern rivers of the Broads . |
| 2 | His most productive bowling season was 1952 , when he chalked up the first of his five successive championships . |
| 3 | With a sigh , and a glance of regret at the clear , bright day outside , he settled down in his chair and took up the first of the tomes . |
| 4 | The 31-year-old Biasion pushed his new 16-valve Delta Integrale to the limit in making up the half-a-second per kilometre he needed in the fourth and final overnight stage . |
| 5 | Fire up the 1.4 after any 1.6 , even a well run-in example , and it 's immediately plain that the smaller capacity , carburetted CVH is smoother and quieter , with noise , vibration and harshness levels that at least border on the acceptable . |
| 6 | Once the task manager is visible all you can select Tile or Cascade to instantly tidy up the all of the application windows currently open . |
| 7 | Holmewood 's ‘ whistling ’ bridge ( it made noises if the wind was blowing through the rafters from the right direction ) has just been passed by K3 No. 60896 as it heads a southbound coal train up the 1 in 100 in about 1961 . |
| 8 | His second victory — on Redgrave Devil in the Barkin Developments Novice Chase — brought up the 100 on the same date he achieved the fastest ton last season . |
| 9 | With the right choice of shrubs and plants , you can brighten up the shadiest of corners |
| 10 | They told the inquiry that if a particularly strong FM transmission was made very near the radio it might be possible for it to pick up the sub-harmonic at around 14 MHz but that such a signal could not have emanated from a low-powered , hand-held type of two-way radio . |
| 11 | Of course , you do n't have to set up the JMP-1 through a regular stage rack . |
| 12 | It 's hard work pumping up the inflatable with a foot pump , so why not use someone 's drysuit inflator instead ? |
| 13 | Had you bothered to look up the LD-50 in any standard work , or even bothered to consult Dr Woodward , you would have been more cautious about repeating tales of poisoning . |
| 14 | She thought of Jonathan , but decided that she must have been too angry and hurt , because she could only manage to summon up the blurriest of images of him . |
| 15 | From the bifurcation of the two routes , Cool for Cats moves airily up the shallowest of grooves above the semi-rest , with more Stennis jugs for company , to a stopping place beneath a faintly bulging section which bars entry to the more pronounced line on the right flank of the blunt arête . |
| 16 | Clean and well organised , she could conjure up the best with the poorest ingredients . |
| 17 | Its primary function is to sharpen up the best of good practice . ’ |
| 18 | Lord Gnome 's Complete Fib and Lie Diet ( Corgi , £4.99 ) serves up the best of Private Eye 's recent offerings , and Ned Sherrin 's Loose nEds ( Coronet , £3.99 ) , provides sparkling ‘ jottings from a fractured life ’ in his own inimitable , witty style . |
| 19 | Coming up the best of the action from the Endsleigh Insurance League , we start at Molyneux it 's Wolves and Stoke City , Phil the reporter . |
| 20 | They 'd probably end up the best of friends . |
| 21 | Two more world champions are in action tonight ; Swindon 's Bob Anderson lines up with John Lowe at the Super Marine Club in South Marston to take on a handful of local challengers who make up the best in the west . |
| 22 | But it is unreasonable from this to extrapolate ‘ the school ’ as one of the cornerstones of society — for what are schools but institutions in which , in the name of knowledge , we ghettoize the young , and keep them from adult company , coop up the violent with the meek , those who like learning with those who do n't , and in general fit them for the modern world , which one quick glimpse of the television will show them to be a violent , murderous , greedy , vulgar and horrid place , in which people in a good mood throw custard pies at one another and in a bad mood chop each other to pieces ? |
| 23 | ‘ You look quite strong , ’ she said , picking up the largest of the suitcases and dragging it up the stairs . |
| 24 | Which brings up the second of those two Greek imbalances — the potentially fatal one . |
| 25 | It is time we took up the second of my headings , language as screen . |
| 26 | Lift up the strong in arm for they shall put out the chairs , blessed are they whose heads are bursting with ideas , for they should be put on the programme committee . |
| 27 | The light from the kitchen window was showing up the faintest of impressions on the paper , and Doyle picked up the pad and examined it more closely . |
| 28 | It is surely rather a lot to ask an alien species , perhaps 50 light-years away , to pick up the faintest of traces and then instantly respond . |
| 29 | At an EC-organized conference in Nicosia , Cyprus , in April 1990 ministers from 16 countries adopted a " Nicosia charter " to combat pollution and clean up the Mediterranean by 2025 . |
| 30 | Leaving the heat and the nearly finished bridehouse , I returned to soak up the last of a cool , green English summer . |