Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [verb] up a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Dreadco 's physiologists are setting up a variable-pressure metabolic laboratory to study the matter . |
| 2 | MOTORISTS in the North-East are snapping up a new device in the battle to beat car crime . |
| 3 | SUNDERLAND manager Malcolm Crosby is lining up a late assault on the promotion play-off places in the New Year . |
| 4 | Barcelona-based multimedia developer BSI Multimedia SA is setting up a new division to specialise in Unix and OS/2 products . |
| 5 | The club is revving up a grand welcome for four-wheel fans from all over Britain . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The Conservatives are putting up a big fight . |
| 8 | The purpose of this Act is to set up a legal framework for the conversion of units of the planned economy into companies and a conversion of one company into another form of company and mergers between such companies . |
| 9 | The plan is to set up a Central Music Authority for the army , similar to that already operated by the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force , which will agree on bookings for each band . |
| 10 | The article is unmarked as regards spatio-temporal relations ; so the function of deictic reference is to set up a continual spatial , temporal and subjective opposition between proximal and distal relations . |
| 11 | Across the Estuary , two miles away , the sun was lighting up a narrow strip of sand on the Yorkshire coast . |
| 12 | He said the princess was building up a separate Kensington Palace court and international platform for herself , predicting : ‘ We will see the phoenix princess arising from the ashes of this whole crumbling mess of the monarchy . |
| 13 | My dream was to build up a prosperous small-animal practice and later on take on an assistant . ’ |
| 14 | The second proposal was to set up a long-term residential therapeutic centre which eventually involved inviting Phoenix House , an established and reputable charity , to set up in Wirral . |
| 15 | PA are building up a definitive database of companies and contacts interested in ESPRIT CIME . |
| 16 | Garden Management Group are to set up a small IT panel to monitor horticultural computing . |
| 17 | If the purchaser is setting up a new company to take over the business of the vendor , since that new company will have no track record , the landlord may well be entitled to look for additional security , such as a parent company or bank guarantee or a rent deposit . |
| 18 | The aim is to set up a professional , cost-effective organisation by 1996 to stimulate , assist , promote and encourage firms to set up and expand in Gwynedd , the report says . |
| 19 | The aim is to build up a comprehensive database on the Gault of the United Kingdom . |
| 20 | From the beginning , the aim was to set up a prestigious institution , able to house the big exhibitions which have often passed Germany by . |
| 21 | County planning and transport officers are setting up a public consultation exercise in the village to discuss proposals designed ultimately to rid Greatham of through traffic . |
| 22 | ‘ Long-term things are clearing up a little bit , ’ said Shilton , who is also injured . |
| 23 | Water is pumped up a tall central stem and then tumbles into a small bowl . |
| 24 | And Bechtel is setting up a joint venture with Kiewit that is looking at projects in 15 states and outlays of up to $1 billion . |
| 25 | The distributor Azed Bücher in Basle is setting up a new English-language department , and plans its launch into this area on 1st April . |
| 26 | The other is to build up a cognitive map of the region to be traversed . |
| 27 | Adenauer 's other achievement was to build up a personal relationship with Charles de Gaulle which made possible a Franco-German rapprochement of real depth and made the European Economic Community a reality . |
| 28 | Martha was building up a vast resource that was enabling her to ask and to tell , to hear and to enjoy . |
| 29 | but when projects like the Enterprise Workshops in Swindon are threatened with closure , disabled people are putting up a strong fight . |
| 30 | Australia is to set up a major new centre for research into the ecology of Antarctica and the souther oceans . |