Example sentences of "[verb] up image " in BNC.
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1 | Over three days , speakers repeatedly conjured up images of incompetent social engineers , bent on disarming honest citizens and leaving them helpless in the face of criminals ; ‘ anti-gun fetishists ’ in the media , with their expense-account life-styles and homes far from the front line ; lawyers who turn criminals out on to the streets to kill and rape again ; and , above all , the federal government , which is determined to subvert the constitution by establishing a monopoly of arms . |
2 | Dieting always seems to conjure up images of endless cottage cheese salads , calorie-counting and saying no to all your favourite foods but our five day diet plan proves that it does n't have to be dull and boring . |
3 | Even the most ardent critics of council housing would find it difficult to conjure up images of featherbedded , oversubsidised council tenants driving expensive cars . |
4 | It is a bitter indictment of our own time that the phrase ‘ inner city ’ should today universally conjure up images of disorder , poverty , fear , vandalism , and alienation . |
5 | If doubt can conjure up images of heroism ( the David of Doubt standing up to the Goliath of Lies ) , it can just as easily represent what is most cowardly , indecisive and dictatorial in us all . |
6 | The word ‘ chalet ’ may conjure up images of detached wooden shacks to the uninitiated , but those at Butlins are one-bedroom flats in long parallel two-storey balcony-access blocks packed tightly together . |
7 | ALTHOUGH the name Castalian Band may conjure up images of something exotically Mediterranean , the ensemble has its roots firmly placed in Scotland , writes Carol Main . |
8 | Riven tried to dredge up images of their foes from his books , but the reality of the rain , the darkness , and the approaching pack left him no time to think . |
9 | It is a smart little tag , conjuring up images of Monie bootling off to the library . |
10 | Even quite wealthy individuals confess to conjuring up images of going cold and hungry . |
11 | Such works were very popular ; conjuring up images of past ages of grandeur , and fostering a yearning for a new future . |
12 | It conjures up images of Victorian family evenings round the piano . |
13 | In one season alone Gallacher scored 46 goals for Airdrie , striking up an almost telepathic relationship with the club 's left winger Jimmy Sommerville , a name that conjures up images of late '80s gay-disco rather than Broomfield Park in the midst of industrial depression . |
14 | It conjures up images of the old Nimble bread adverts with the girl in the balloon , or the bit in The Snowman where the kid flies over the coast . |
15 | But my mind conjures up images of how they know my secret shame , and are talking about me behind my back . |
16 | I do n't want to go religious on you , but the approach of April naturally conjures up images of Easter , and hence , the Lamb of God , lamb on the table , and all of that . |
17 | conjures up images and I just object to the fact that people impose on us , degrenality , I mean I , I think lesbian 's and gay men have got a right to their life style as we have and I do n't think we should be actually imposing and I think that 's what a lot of society and what people come out with does er more or less we do n't agree with that and its wrong and its objectional |
18 | Ironically , one graduate of the 1980s remarks , in the same publication , that she finds the idea of being called an embroiderer quite amusing because it conjures up images of the edges of tablecloths ’ . |
19 | At the time , the television networks served up images of Gap-wearing middle-managers having a day out . |
20 | By surrounding the subject 's head with a detector array , connected to suitable computer hardware , it is possible to build up images of the brain , indicating the areas of different levels of radioactivity , and hence of metabolic activity . |
21 | Recognizing the influence of these figures , advertisers who wish to promote products in a youth market or to discourage drug abuse will summon up images of the alternative culture . |
22 | Flat expanses of sand conjured up images of the savannah it had once been : giraffes picking leaves from high branches , an antelope grazing , and young zebras running in circles while their mothers eye a drowsy lion in the long grass . |
23 | The reader in men and masculinity from Bradford University conjured up images for me of a muscular man walking in with a few four-packs of larger under his arms ready to address BASW delegates . |
24 | My hon. Friend conjured up images of people coming out of taxis and meeting friends . |
25 | She slipped under the bedclothes and switched on the reading lamp , adamant that she would shove him to the furthest corner of her mind , but the minute she opened her book her brain started working again , throwing up images of him , the way he smiled , that confident knowing look in his eyes when he addressed her . |
26 | That 's why she set up Images Ahead , a service which enables you to find and try a new hairstyle BEFORE visiting the hairdresser . |
27 | This ability to summon up images , both photographic and diagrammatic , and explanatory texts within a matter of seconds is quite hypnotic , and very much in line with the television mind-set of the computer generation . |
28 | Words and phrases in common usage , such as ‘ mutton dressed as lamb ’ , ‘ dirty old man ’ , ‘ silly old woman ’ , ‘ old fogies ’ , ‘ old ducks ’ , ‘ old biddy ’ , ‘ old codger ’ , ‘ old dears ’ and ‘ old folk ’ all conjure up images which leave little doubt about the nature and experience of old age . |
29 | COMPUTERS often conjure up images of whirling tapes on giant machines , or of bespectacled precocious kids wrestling with incomprehensible maths . |
30 | The beaches await but even if you consider yourself more of a sun worshipper than a sightseeing buff , you may be tempted to venture further afield , out to explore the rolling hills and picturesque cornfields which stretch across this region 's landscapes and conjure up images of some rich renaissance tapestry . |