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

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1 Even Japan has given up the fight in some market areas where they used to be world leaders : And even the new industrial nations , in their turn , will eventually be undercut and have to move on : To what ?
2 Well the problem about , er two two does include , two does include going around drumming up customers , but the difficulty with that is it seems to me that that you 'll need to drum up the customers in year one and only get the money
3 ‘ My fitness has picked up a lot in the last two or three weeks and I 'm kicking a ball and running fine , ’ said Owers .
4 Labour wants to set up a Parliament in Scotland , where public spending is 23 per cent .
5 Thus there has grown up an interest in feminist ‘ herstory ’ ; etymologically impossible , the word emphasizes that his-story has been just that — the history of men .
6 Bruce Armitage , Grampian Enterprise 's director of training , stressed that the £100,000 grant had been designed to set up a framework in which other agencies could work .
7 Rupe roots for his mate Bob Rupert Murdoch has stirred up the possums in Australia , his former homeland , by praising his mate Bob Hawke , the Prime Minister , and dismissing Andrew Peacock , the opposition leader .
8 Want to set up a table in document ?
9 ‘ Look — the next time you want to set up a surveillance in London , do remember that we 're here to help .
10 The borough council has drawn up the programme in a bid to highlight the benefits of a healthy lifestyle .
11 By far the greatest protection for consumers in Britain is provided by parliament , which in several important pieces of legislation has set up a framework in which the respective rights and duties of consumers and suppliers can be identified and clarified .
12 The sculptor Rob Blote has set up a gallery in his home in Wassenaar with the specific purpose of selling works of art which the Dutch government had purchased through the BKR Scheme .
13 Mountain View , California-based , Network Computing Devices , has set up a subsidiary in Munich to support German distributor sales : it has existing operations in England and France and a joint venture in Japan .
14 Grace has set up a plant in India to process neem .
15 Mr Litman , who has set up an office in Moscow , is unperturbed by his rivals ' plans and promises that his ageing ex-spies will provide ‘ astounding new material that will shatter myths and create new controversies . ’
16 Meanwhile 88Open , which boasts that some 80% of its business comes from Europe , has set up an office in the UK , under the charge of Steve Heath , previously from Motorola 's semiconductor operation .
17 Suffice it to say that a company may use public relations activities , and what is called " corporate advertising " to try to build up an image in the minds of target individuals and groups who are likely to be influential in purchase decision-making .
18 Howell has taken up a job in Aberdeen and feels he may no longer be able to spare the time to travel back to Edinburgh each weekend .
19 At least two , the Statesman and the Indian Express , were expected to take up the story in their issues today .
20 Ministers are expected to take up the fight in the next few days and urge the banks that , at a time of national economic crisis , they must do their bit .
21 The conference agreed to set up a base in Kurdistan , including a broadcasting station .
22 If it is intended to set up an exhibition in the foyer at ( note address omitted ) , it is necessary to book the foyer area , and to ensure sufficient display boards will be available :
23 ‘ You had deliberately led me to believe that you 'd picked up a stranger in Bruges , and naturally I had assumed him to be a Belgian . ’
24 No wonder , then , that when he came to write up the experience in Surprised by Joy he should have been so insistent that his father 's last illness and death ‘ does not really come into the story I am telling ’ .
25 An effort was made to set up the stud in a more favoured , not to say more conventional , site in the foothills of the Nilgiris .
26 Nona 'd grown up a lot in New York . ’
27 Established firms are tending to scoop up the talent in the market which is still in second-tier houses — without which they will not survive .
28 The Bush team wants the Fed to follow up the cut in its discount loan rate to banks from the 3.5 per cent it reached in December to perhaps as low as 3 per cent .
29 These did not come from either the Tate Gallery or the Victoria and Albert Museum , the institutions with the relevant collections , but almost certainly from , among others , Agnews , the firm which , ironically , helped build up the collection in the nineteenth century .
30 Fawley power station , which supplies electricity to the National Grid , operated at reduced capacity to avoid sucking up the oil in its water cooling system .
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