Example sentences of "[v-ing] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | we get on the train at , most of them get on at Elstree luckily so what we do is we open the doors and they 're always crowding up the bit where the door is and they say excuse me may I get on please ? |
| 2 | If the choice now is between shoring up a democratically bankrupt Westminster or standing up for the restoration of Scottish democracy , then I am for Scottish democracy . |
| 3 | The veteran Eire international is careful not to be drawn into a new slanging match with Ferguson — but one of those reasons must be to show the United manager that he is not a crippled has-been , better equipped propping up a bar than shoring up a defence at football 's highest level . |
| 4 | Yet revisionist work underlines the enormous difficulties that would have confronted even the most gifted of tsars in shoring up a rigidly conservative regime . |
| 5 | The Junkers , predictably , wanted none of this and their interests in the government , civil service and the military persuaded the government to continue shoring up the ailing Ost-Elbian estate system through continued tariff protection , artificially high grain prices and a policy of grants and loans . |
| 6 | Thirty were to be converted into gun-sloops , by shoring up the bows to accommodate a 24-pounder [ 11-kg gun ] … |
| 7 | Just as many equality feminists opposed shoring up the traditional family at the beginning of the century , so present-day Labour has been challenged internally time and time again — and externally by the women 's and lesbians and gay liberation movements — on its sexual politics . |
| 8 | Clearly , the £250,000 reputably spent each year on shoring up the LTA 's publishing ego trip could be much better spend elsewhere . |
| 9 | On the other , he could have devoted his energies to shoring up the regime 's prestige , authority and ability to maintain order . |
| 10 | Hope could picture himself comforting Mrs Crump , shoring up the memory of her husband , praising him , assessing him , recalling ‘ mots ’ , reporting favourable comments , and then in would come the daughter , dressed entirely in black , and he would say , would be forced to say no matter what the consequences were , that the child was like the man . |
| 11 | They were talking about the House of Representatives at Weimar — ‘ That troublesome place ’ , as the T'ang continually called it — and about ways of shoring up the tenuous peace that now existed between it and the Seven . |
| 12 | A stupid game dedicated to shoring up the notion that they did not want to play together . |
| 13 | The 24-year-old sweeper will lose three days ’ wages for deserting his father 's electrical business to take on the infinitely more difficult job of shoring up the leakiest defence in international soccer . |
| 14 | On the other hand , the United States carried out a series of crisis measures apparently aimed at shoring up the dollar . |
| 15 | Back in November , Mr Bush got a rude shock when his ‘ Energy Strategy ’ ( which amounted to little more than building a few more nuclear reactors and opening up every remaining square inch of Alaska to further oil exploration ) got kicked out by the Senate . |
| 16 | He managed to complete the last lap with a flourish in a little under a minute , opening up a 10-metre lead down the back straight . |
| 17 | Mark Breland took less than four rounds to come through the third defence of his WBC welterweight title yesterday in Tokyo , opening up a bad cut above the right eye of his Japanese challenger , Fujio Ozaki . |
| 18 | The only disappointment was that after opening up a 50-point lead at the beginning of August , they failed to win any of the next four matches . |
| 19 | Much has been written on opening up a dialogue and creating collaboration on reading between home and school . |
| 20 | Reading this collection of interviews with twenty five Scottish and Irish women poets is like opening up a box of plain chocolates , only to be confronted with an array of brightly coloured and diverse tasting liqueurs . |
| 21 | It was this — the politics of culture — that implicitly governed the Channel 4 debate , opening up a whole spectrum of discussion widely at variance with the concerns dominating White ( Western European and American ) feminist film theory . |
| 22 | Here Barnett is opening up a whole store of perceptions , aims , and criticisms which marked out important features of the class relationship in the period ( and which were also relevant to age relations ) , such as the alleged pauperization of self-respect among the poor ; their grasping of excitement ; and the superiority of middle-class culture which made contact between the classes so crucial . |
| 23 | It is also opening up a rare advance in the ancient art of making metal alloys . |
| 24 | Most people go just that little bit too far , opening up a blessed margin of excess along which our wounded egos can scuttle to safety . |
| 25 | You may find yourself opening up a whole new world of exciting foreign contacts which could , eventually , lead to some charming holidays . |
| 26 | As Titron lifted , the black water in the dock sucked away , opening up a drop of several feet , only to be followed by a surge upwards . |
| 27 | Rock Around The Clock are showing some recession-defying ability by opening up a new store in Crouch End , London . |
| 28 | You 're opening up a whole new can of beans as to why he married this young kind of Lolita-ish girl . |
| 29 | ‘ There was no conception of opening up a capacity for you to do things for yourself . |
| 30 | A modern patio with a large glazed area is the ideal way of opening up a living room by leading the eye out into the garden . |