Example sentences of "up [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could then walk much faster and push up the average daily mileage . |
| 2 | As was seen earlier , overtime plays a much greater role in pushing up the average gross weekly earnings of the male manual than of the male non-manual worker . |
| 3 | By loading in access frequency order , the accesses to synonym records — and these are the records that slow up the average retrieval times of the file — have been cut from 34.063 per cent to 14.878 per cent . |
| 4 | She picked up the warm , milky-smelling cocoon and crooned reassurance . |
| 5 | Gina picked up the warm handful gingerly in case of accidents . |
| 6 | It is then up the Hanging Committee to decide which works fit best into the jigsaw-puzzle of an exhibition they are trying to construct . |
| 7 | Julia incredulously heard the Archdeacon say to the Dean , the tone , which was mellifluous , floating up the elegant staircase . |
| 8 | About then , word came from Salines , three hours away , to inform Nicholas that the Venetian sugar ship had reached Alexandria and would be leaving soon for Episkopi to pick up the combined Cypriot cargo . |
| 9 | ‘ We just couple up the combined battery powers of the Ariadne and the Kilcharran . |
| 10 | Hills sums up the combined effect of the tax and benefit changes since 1979 : |
| 11 | PA chief executive Clive Bradley warned the a.g.m. that agreement between American and British publishers which divide up the Continental European market between different suppliers ( typically , particularly in relation to works of fiction , when British publishers enter into rights agreements with American publishers , the British publisher obtains exclusive rights for the UK and Ireland , the American publisher secures exclusive rights for the United States , and they both have open market or non-exclusive rights for Continental Europe ) could leave British publishers vulnerable to the importation of American books . |
| 12 | He had contributed time and money freely to causes in which he believed , and his energy was a vital factor in the completion of the Trent and Mersey canal , which opened up the continental trade and reduced transport costs through its connection with Hull and Liverpool . |
| 13 | Microsoft 's latest scheme to increase its market share in the Macintosh software arena is a trade-in deal which nets a customer the four Microsoft applications which make up the integrated Microsoft Office pack for less than the price of just one of those applications . |
| 14 | The contest to find ‘ budding ’ Percy Throwers was the brainchild of residents , who also make up the judging panel , along with executive representatives . |
| 15 | The more successful Du Pont synthetic rubber factory could never mop up the ever-growing pool of surplus labour . |
| 16 | Even the rain no longer seemed fresh : it congealed in the sullied air , splattering into filthy stinking puddles , hammering the roof and churning up the packed mud until it was slushy and loose . |
| 17 | Their sleep disturbed , their murmured resentment rises into a wind , stirring up the packed clay of the wasteground as if it were desert sand . |
| 18 | By 1952 almost all English education authorities had adopted an intelligence test in their selection process ; psychologists debated the effects of social agencies coaching and practice — on IQ scores ; but Hertfordshire gave up the eleven-plus exam altogether , after having had one for at least fifteen years . |
| 19 | Stop up the other end , and bury the hose-pipe alongside the beans . |
| 20 | On reaching the face drop down to the toe of the rocks then climb steeply back up the other side until North West Gully is reached ( 15 minutes ) . |
| 21 | They make up half your face in colours to suit you , advising you on technique , and you make up the other half of your face to match . |
| 22 | When he saw the saxaphone he told his father about it and his father said that if he could save half the money , he would make up the other half . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Hand me up the other bottle . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Quite a number of our staff live in Wimbledon and some practical jokers have been putting up the other Graham Hadley 's pamphlets , ’ he says . |
| 25 | In fact my gynaecologist looked up the other day and said , ‘ Dame Edna , when will you stop giving ? ’ |
| 26 | Henry looked at himself in the kitchen mirror , as he crumpled up the other three pages of this latest missive and threw it in the swingbin . |
| 27 | Sure enough , I dived in the water , swam up the other end , and he came after me . |
| 28 | Squatting down , he picked up the other five squirming bodies and stuffed them into a cloth sack . |
| 29 | One umpire was up the other end , the other was too busy controlling his refractory pony to watch what Randy was up to . |
| 30 | ‘ My friend , Lord Auden and I cut one up the other day , ’ she says ( of an old mahogany sideboard ) . |