Example sentences of "up [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unbroken , that is , except for a tiny barn , a grey stone speck just visible on the last airy swell hundreds of feet up where the hillside joined the moorland above . |
| 2 | Add to this the recent announcements by Kodak and Xerox that they have adopted Adobe PostScript as a future imaging model and you begin to see a whole new world opening up where the PC is , at last , able to hold its head up in the Macintosh dominated publishing market . |
| 3 | Successively a Rhodes scholar , Foreign Office mandarin , Oxford don , politician , TV current affairs reporter and politician again , he is unencumbered by the traditionalist baggage inevitably carried around by those who grew up where the writ of the Labour establishment still runs largely unchallenged . |
| 4 | A few people remained to take up lives in the new Wadi Halfa , a bleak tenuous place which sprang up where the railway line from Khartoum comes to an apparently arbitrary end against a low wall of sleepers . |
| 5 | Ask the task orientated member to regularly sum up where the meeting has reached . |
| 6 | He led the way about six feet further up where the path ended in a flat ledge , and then I could see what had happened . |
| 7 | I was on to the exchange for your name and number as soon as the news came through , but it took me an hour and a half to bully someone into looking up where the phone-box was . |
| 8 | When , in August 1920 , the threat of British military intervention against Soviet troops advancing into Poland , triggered a massive upsurge of anti-war sentiment , it seemed that a new wave of revolutionary pacifism might erupt , taking up where the crisis of January 1918 had left off . |
| 9 | ‘ There are bodies stacked up where the airforce , for some godforsaken reason , launched an attack with chemical weapons on a civilian crowd … ’ |
| 10 | Norwich had grown up where the cornlands of Norfolk meet the wood-pasture country . |
| 11 | easy when you go right across from one end of the page to the other to be a square up or a square down . |
| 12 | If the patient 's well-being is enhanced or if a problem such as asthma is cured , but joint pains flare up or a skin rash develops , the physician can reassure the patient that things are moving in the right direction and that the joint or skin problem should be transient and will also clear up in due course . |
| 13 | A voluntary winding up may be a members ' winding up or a creditors ' winding up . |
| 14 | Well it 's just it 's not the the grease the make up or the cream it 's the fact that you 're you 're putting so much muck on your skin all the time and it clogs up pores and causes spots . |
| 15 | ( i ) if either party shall pass a resolution for winding up or the court shall make an order that either party shall be wound up ( in either case other than for the purpose of reconstruction ) or if a receiver or manager on behalf of a creditor be appointed , or if circumstances shall arise which would entitle a court or a creditor to appoint a receiver or manager or which would entitle a court to make a winding up order ; or |
| 16 | In previous cases the Coal Board had either paid up or the owner had agreed to demolition . |
| 17 | That 's the time you 're going to get up or the time you 're going to leave ? |
| 18 | Intelligence is essential to the modern sportsmen ; there are so many losses and benefits to be weighed up that a sportsman needs a rational , calculating mind . |
| 19 | So many and such large anomalies pile up that the paradigm suddenly collapses , as , for instance , when Einstein put the exceptions to the Newtonian paradigm together and proposed the theory of relativity . |
| 20 | In academic writing ( particularly in science ) , the convention has grown up that the writer or experimenter do ’ es not feature in the text : it is the passive that makes this possible , e.g. : |
| 21 | Miguelito yelled up that the man should do something unmentionable to himself . |
| 22 | Quickly and inexorably , however , the evidence built up that the man in military hospital at Buchanan Castle , Drymen , was not Rudolf Hess . |
| 23 | Jean , we 'll go down to where 's the fifty P shop or something and buy some of those do , er cornflakes ' plates or something , say they 're gon na fill those other ones up that the man give us a mere seven , eight ones , only leaves us four ordinary , you see I know for a fact that Sally say he was caught |
| 24 | We just got told as soon as we turned up that the course was cut with immediate effect . |
| 25 | We just got told as soon as we turned up that the course was cut with immediate effect . |
| 26 | It was when they grew up that the problems really started . |
| 27 | It embraces the various institutions that make up that the state — the House of Commons , the Cabinet , the civil service and so on — as well as the fundamental practices and rules that identify which institutions have power and how they relate to each other and to the larger political community . |
| 28 | Her visit produced a flowering of names associated with her on the little island , like Queen Mary 's Bower and Tree , and stories grew up that the five-year-old child began to learn Latin , Greek , Italian and other subjects there , including the art of embroidery for which she was later famous , while taking time off for gardening . |
| 29 | There can be little truth in the legend that has grown up that the lift failed because of fundamental weaknesses of the track , a legend thoughtlessly reinforced by L.T.C. Rolt in ‘ Narrow Boat ’ . |
| 30 | Ideally they were supposed to pick up that the woman ( Trish ) was asking the man ( me ) for money — an all-too-authentic situation , this . |