Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun sg] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A detached head , who acts with detachment , coolly weighing matters up , allowing the mind to soak up ideas and to put them together in new ways , is not a primary-school image . |
| 2 | So we made the decision to go up Beinn Damh , not a Munro , but nevertheless a divine mountain of 902 metres situated conveniently behind the cottage . |
| 3 | The organisation is using the event to drum up business by running a St Valentine 's Raffle . |
| 4 | What prevented French or German firms borrowing on similar terms in Europe or the United States to those faced by US firms , and using the money to buy up firms in Europe or indeed the United States , was their financial and industrial weakness , not the state of Europe 's balance of payments . |
| 5 | The database administrator ( DBA ) is given the opportunity to set up indexes at data creation time and this will increase the speed by which data is retrieved . |
| 6 | Valuable time was lost , the troops opposed to us were able to recover from the disorganization produced by our first attack , and the enemy was given the opportunity to bring up reinforcements . ’ |
| 7 | Rather they preferred to farm them out at a fixed rent , at leases which , in the fourteenth century , became progressively longer , and to enjoy the freedom to take up offices or to serve in the army . |
| 8 | A previous rights issue in 1991 raised some £25 million and helped the company buy up development land at bargain prices . |
| 9 | Earle caught the eye setting up John Fashanu 's opener then he punished a poor punch by Bruce Grobbelaar with a superbly-judged 25-yard lob . |
| 10 | In addition , each site has the facility to set up codes of its own for local use . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , the Secretary of State has the power to draw up regulations about what can be charged for and what can not and the Education Reform Act required local authorities and school governors to draw up policies on charging parents for their children 's out-of-school activities . |
| 12 | Turning his car into a mobile advert for the book , he hustled copies outside clubs and used the money to print up part two , which in turn funded part three — in which Q broke the ultimate literary taboo and swapped the printed word for audiocassette , reading ever ambient funk backdrops . |
| 13 | Along the way she found the time to set up Ranzau , and in March this year the couple ploughed their capital into beefing it up . |
| 14 | The laboratory has no money to pick up Charles Brown 's project , should AIDS arrive here with a vengeance , although it is currently collaborating with Speywood to adapt its conventional purification technology to human blood . |
| 15 | This guy has a business picking up fossils and selling them ? |
| 16 | Since 1972 the 189 member Committee has had the right to draw up opinions on all questions relating to the Community , but it remains advisory . |
| 17 | ‘ Why had the 1980 Constitution abolished the right to put up posters ? ’ |
| 18 | We would n't have got the cash to set up Headline if we had n't started with the intention to be commercial . ’ |
| 19 | Microsoft Corp 's MS-DOS 6 , which will be available on Wednesday , will be offered at $50 for the first 60 days , and $130 thereafter , the company said : the two most compelling new features , the company says , are data compression to double hard disk space , and improved memory management ; it also includes the capability to back up files , protect against viruses and reorganize files on the hard disk — the back-up technology was licensed from Symantec Corp 's Peter Norton group , and the anti-viral technology from Central Point Software Inc — but unlike Symantec 's Norton Back-Up , the back-up feature in MS-DOS 6 is n't automatic and does n't support tape drives , and is also slower — and about 300 new viruses have been discovered since Central Point 's virus detection technology was frozen in MS-DOS 6 code ; both companies hope to sell enhancements to the built-in products to users . |
| 20 | How I can make a start cleaning up Clapham High Street I would like to know . |
| 21 | A FIRST step to bring perpetrators of atrocities in the former Yugoslavia to justice were taken yesterday when the UN Security Council unanimously passed a resolution to set up war crimes trials . |
| 22 | She put an end to the nuns ’ little treats and tricks , whilst at the same time allowing a whore to take up residence there . |
| 23 | FitzAlan and de Villiers were glaring at each other across her , but as she made a move to sit up Isabel saw the scowl fade from Simon 's face and he reached down a hand to steady her . |
| 24 | Likewise , a dealer wo n't want a record taking up space in the racks of his or her shop unless he or she thinks the public will ask for it . |
| 25 | It is only the second time the ITV company has followed the American idea of using a survey to back up launch plans . |
| 26 | I mean I 'm no historian , you 'd have to check up on this with my hubby , but as far as I know the Reformation started up North in Europe a guid lang mile away from Rome and the Pope and that , up in the Region of what we now know as Holland , and Germany and Alsace Lorraine . |
| 27 | The sales department , for example , or the export department if the broadcast is to go out on the world service or in any particular language , might be able to use the information to back up sales activity and to show that promotional support is being given to the company 's product or services . |
| 28 | Instead , Mr Clinton spent the week drumming up popularity by giving speeches in Los Alamos and playing basketball ( badly ) in Los Angeles . |
| 29 | Laughing , he adds : ‘ I spent the evening chatting up Elizabeth and then asked Julie out . ’ |
| 30 | In the silence we hear a cow tearing up grass by the roots and chewing . |