Example sentences of "[verb] up [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Initiated by the CBSO under its electrifying young conductor , Simon Rattle , it will soon receive another boost , when Sadler 's Wells Ballet takes up residence in the refurbished Hippodrome under its new name , the Birmingham Royal Ballet . |
| 32 | This benefit allows you to deduct the years when you were required to give up work from the normal qualifying period for a basic pension and so , in effect , shorten the number of years when you would otherwise have been required to make contributions . |
| 33 | Outflanking Imelda Marcos , Cojuangco emerged as the leading right-wing opposition contender , continuing his campaign to build up support in the former Marcos bastions of northern Ilocos province and the Cagayan valley , and in the Mindanao and the crucial Visayas , estimated to represent some 21 per cent of the total vote . |
| 34 | We take community policing to be a style which emphasizes the development of good relations between police and community , normally via active police involvement in , and contact with , the local community , and by deploying manpower in such a way that officers patrol a ‘ beat ’ on foot in order to build up familiarity with the local area . |
| 35 | When planning a rotation , it is very helpful to draw up a long-term scheme and dovetail the various crops into the seasons , at the same time ensuring that each field comes into the rotation in its turn and is then put back in grass to build up fertility for the requisite period . |
| 36 | Dulles went on to form another of his much-favoured regional pacts — the Baghdad Pact ( 1955 ) , which included the USA , Britain , Iran , Iraq and Pakistan — to build up power around the Soviet defence perimeter . |
| 37 | It may be that the Breton expedition was intended to keep up pressure on the French to make the sort of concessions the English would feel able to accept , but it is equally possible that the confused direction of English policy reflected conflicting influences at court . |
| 38 | The track index will take up part of the first track of each cylinder . |
| 39 | He will take up residence on the cleared site of the Fun House , whose place has been taken by a vintage carousel originally imported from Coney Island by Alderman W G Bean , the founder of the Blackpool funfair . |
| 40 | The other groups had set up camp on the far side , waiting for a few clear days and the worst of the snow to melt . |
| 41 | But he blew his chances when he said that giving up sovereignty to the European Commission was like giving in to Hitler . |
| 42 | The sleeping-bag began to soak up tea from the steaming groundsheet , and I screamed , ‘ Damn ! |
| 43 | He said the launch marked the start of a Skerneside Revival project which continued the good work of Railside Revival , which cleaned up land alongside the main east coast railway line through the borough . |
| 44 | At least 20 officers in personnel carriers and patrol cars took up position outside the old Billingsgate fish market , just yards from the Baltic Exchange , where three people died in the IRA bomb blast in April . |
| 45 | The dog curled a lip at me but made no sound , then took up position in the front room doorway . |
| 46 | In the summer , strawberry sellers usually took up position around the Crimean Cannon at the side of the Council House and they had to dispose of all their perishable wares before returning home . |
| 47 | The dragons were released whereon the red dragon killed the white and eventually took up residence on the Welsh flag . |
| 48 | Dr Ottokar Proctor , ‘ The Tasmanian Devil , ’ today took up residence in the high-security wing of this semi-private mental hospital . |
| 49 | ‘ The Myrcans , when they were first created out of Dwarf-hewn and Giant-riven stone , took up residence in the broad Dale of Glen-arric , and in time that place became known as Merkadale , as it still is called today . |
| 50 | The ‘ naked ’ crab moved about 60 cm ( 2 ft ) away while the first crab nipped out of its damaged shell and took up residence in the new one . |
| 51 | It had rained for a fortnight when he , his wife and two children took up residence in the 12 room Ben Alder Lodge . |
| 52 | She picks up speed in the late evening , after most of the passengers have eaten . |
| 53 | He made himself over by taking up body-building in the Scottish style — which is long and lean rather than pillows of bulk — and changed his name from Thomas to Sean ( in Edinburgh , he 's still universally known as ‘ Big Tam ’ ) . |
| 54 | His adoption led to his taking up work with the deaf . |
| 55 | Valerie Archibald has kept the West Coast moving the Medau way since taking up residence in the mid '80s . |
| 56 | Brooklyn born , he gave up academia in the 70 's to work in theatre and write plays . |
| 57 | Of course , all this is doing is storing up trouble for the subsequent financial year ; nevertheless , the financial control through the budget is effectively lost . |
| 58 | What little the authors can say , however , should stir up debate in the palaeoanthropological world . |
| 59 | Mark Ainger read from the roughly chalked up notice in the steamy window . |
| 60 | the mean ( SD ) number of symptomatic recurrences per patient month during the total follow up period in the corrosive group was significantly higher than that in the peptic group ( 0.27 ( 0.04 ) v 0.07 ( 0.02 ) , p<0.001 ) . |