Example sentences of "up [prep] [conj] [verb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Of modern poets , I had of course spoken to the boys — and to the masters for that matter , for most had ventured no further than Hardy and Houseman , like the Brasenose dons — of Eliot , Pound and the later Yeats ; and I discovered that they lapped this up as if slaking a mental thirst .
2 This approach emphasises the ‘ state form ’ .9 Like most Marxist analyses , this approach still envisages the state as ‘ capitalist ’ : an apparatus caught up in and managing the social relations of capitalism .
3 Are you also saying that soap operas , in particular — it may be other programmes as well — are picking up on and creating a space for discussing topics that really are preoccupying people , and rendering conscious a lot of issues that are ‘ out there ’ already ?
4 A ntecedent events are those events that precede , lead up to and set the stage for the disobedient
5 Even if the primary focus is the needs of an older person , the counsellor can not afford to ‘ take sides ’ , but should instead aim to help the whole family face up to and develop a wider understanding of the problems and difficulties that exist in old age , and in caring for older people .
6 Intellectualisation : The family members usually have clearer heads than the primary sufferers and use them for even more determined discussion of " facts " rather than facing up to and discussing the emotional pain of their own position .
7 Gore ( 1978 ) studied the impact of unemployment at five points in time leading up to and following the shutdown of two companies .
8 And it would have been good because it was per The only thing was he would have had to have gone up to and do a survival course .
9 In the daytime you can come back and look at the Old State House we 're coming up to and see the cobblestones which mark the place where blood was shed in the great Boston Massacre .
10 But she discovered what he was up to and confiscated the church .
11 Stephen Hawking makes frequent references to what God might have been up to when designing the cosmos .
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