Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [verb] up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | He calculates the location and properties of this cloud and asks for a research grant to send up a satellite to test his calculations . |
2 | A good example of such a breach of secrecy followed an incident in 1979 , when the until-then-secret ‘ MUFTI ’ team of specially trained prison officers in riot gear broke up a protest demonstration by prisoners in D Wing of Wormwood Scrubs . |
3 | Early Punk clothing mixed up every youth style since the war and joined them together with safety pins ; as its radical content faded , this was to supply a rich compost for new styles to grow , as each constituent part — Mod , Ted , skinhead — was unravelled in a series of revivals . |
4 | In consultation with the New York-based executive headhunter firm , Russel Reynolds & Associates , the search committee drew up a list of candidates , all directors or former directors of American museums . |
5 | Nine CIS member states ( all except Armenia and Ukraine ) had also signed an agreement at the Alma Ata meeting setting up a council to co-ordinate the work of their intelligence services . |
6 | This theme has been clouded by different and even contradictory ideas , such as a stimulus package and an investment tax-credit to pep up an economy that will probably grow by 3% this year . |
7 | Carbon monoxide picks up an electron ( is reduced ) to form the radical anion CO which reacts further with another CO or with carbon monoxide itself to form oxocarbon anions . |
8 | In effect , the cell body integrates up the plus and minus stimuli it is receiving , and this determines its own output . |
9 | One advantage of using a hearing-aid is in hearing one 's own voice ‘ from the outside ’ — the aid microphone picks up the voice of the user as well as voices of other people . |
10 | Peter Zwack , a Hungarian-born millionaire liqueur manufacturer who had renounced United States citizenship to take up the post of Hungary 's ambassador to the USA in September 1990 , was dismissed from the post on April 10 amidst public recriminations with the Hungarian government . |
11 | The labour leader opened up an Autumn offensive against the extension of V A T. |
12 | First in line is the guitar input , with a manual channel select button , offering a boost facility to pep up the input level by 10dB for guitars with weak pickups . |
13 | How can a demoralised off-licence manager work up the enthusiasm to sell what an increasingly adventurous customer has no desire to buy ? |
14 | Jockey Club ruling whips up a storm |
15 | To find a given subject you can just double click on the appropriate word in the word list , or type a word into a search box to bring up a number of related articles . |
16 | Team owner Frank Williams must have watched his pit lane monitor with a mixture of delight and dismay as the star he is losing to Indy Car racing ripped up the record books . |
17 | Westminster City Council community liaison officer David Tan set up a training session last week , with a Cantonese interpreter at the Man Fu Kung restaurant in London 's Leicester Square . |
18 | As part of the RSC sesquicentenary celebration , the Newcastle and North East Coast Section set up an exhibition at the Museum of Science and Technology , Newcastle upon Tyne , to commemorate the history of the chemical industry on Tyneside and Wearside . |
19 | A little water ( 3 gallons ) was syphoned off every day , and a larger amount every two weeks , using a gravel vacuum to stir up the gravel and remove the rubbish gathered therein . |
20 | ‘ Or I might be able to get the Oxford University Museum to open up a bit early — you know , Inspector , the dodo and Darwin and the dinosaurs . ’ |
21 | There are tantalising descriptions of buildings now demolished — ‘ a wonderful high ceiling in the banking hall going up the equivalent of two storeys ’ — plus accounts of lunchtimes and commuting . |
22 | Roberts and his cohorts have persuaded venture capital specialist Candover to stump up the lion 's share of £9m for shares in this potentially growth business , and the Bank of Scotland to provide £8m of loans and working capital facilties . |
23 | The moribund mainframe market is about to wake up to a flurry of developments in the storage area , with Hitachi Data Systems Inc preparing to announce a Symmetrix-type disk array for mainframes on May 25 , and IBM Corp following up a week later with launch of the 3390-9 disk drive , which is now expected to be accompanied by a new 3990-4 controller . |
24 | ‘ … So , then , the lady typewriter set up a stationery shop in the High Street with , it is supposed , the contents of the Dean 's stationery cupboard . |
25 | After all , ’ he continued , deftly manipulating half a loaf of garlic bread to sop up the tomato juice on his last platter , ‘ you never saw anybody fat come out of Auschwitz . ’ |
26 | It was Christmas week ( whether this time of the year had any significance or not can not be explained ) and Mr Hayden was in the staff mess room writing up the log book . |
27 | Thanks to John Allen and the respective chairmen of the two groups , Brian Watkins ( ATCDE Drama Section ) and Ray Moss ( National Association of Drama Advisers ) , the Exeter Conference set up a dialogue between lecturers and advisers which has continued in the regions ever since . |
28 | Others fear that it will contain metals especially copper from the pipes and boiler , and choose to boil drinking water to bring up the temperature . |
29 | In 1977 a Council planner summed up the development of the argument from his point of view : — |
30 | Combined with the temporary solution of the coal crisis in 1925 , which will be discussed later , the anticipated textile victory buoyed up the whole of the trades union movement . |