Example sentences of "[verb] up [art] [noun] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE GOVERNMENT and army drew up a secret 50-60 point peace plan in a bid to get the IRA to extend its Christmas ceasefire . |
| 2 | Picking up the story thirty years on , Peter Bogdanovich 's eagerly anticipated sequel to THE LAST PICTURE SHOW substitutes elegiac lament with a wry comedy of the trials and absurdities of disillusioned middle-age . |
| 3 | After all , British taxpayers are picking up the £60 million bill and we ought to be told a lot more about why it happened and why so much damage was caused . |
| 4 | He says up the A one left at Catterick . |
| 5 | One of the big British cable-makers — BICC , GEC or STC — looks likely to pick up the £20 million order . |
| 6 | Q I have decided to set up a 48″ x 18″ x 15″ fish only aquarium , with a view to changing a mixed fish/invert set-up and I am now contemplating which fish to buy . |
| 7 | Q. I am planning to set up a 48″ x 15″ x 12″ marine tank and two wet/dry trickle filters , with hopefully a home-made filter , using syphons and valves . |
| 8 | Meeting in the Bulgarian port of Verna , officials from the six states agreed to establish marine protection centres in each country , and to set up a $32 million fund to support work on reducing oil , chemical and biological pollution and to improve fishing conditions . |
| 9 | BNFL is to set up a £2.5 million world class research institute in cumbria to undertake environmental and occupational studies . |
| 10 | Q I am intending to set up a 60″ x 20″ x 20″ aquarium to house fish and inverts . |
| 11 | Microsoft asked computer distributor , Keydata SA to set up the Institute four years ago . |
| 12 | Once we have agreed the contents with him we will be in a position to drawn up a Phase 1 contract in which we intend to concentrate on making the sanctuary wind and watertight that will allow us to begin work on the interior alterations . |
| 13 | Carefully open up the diskette three point five inches for the best effect and it 's like my Amiga one remove the top covering from the inside , scrape a lot of match powder into a bowl match powder . |
| 14 | What happens when you open up the market twenty years down the line , you realize that these industries are dinosaurs , they 're using technology that 's thirty years out of date . |
| 15 | EARL Spencer 's best friend asked a university pal to lie to cover up a £1.8 million insurance swindle , a court was told yesterday . |
| 16 | EARL Spencer 's best friend asked a university pal to lie to cover up a £1.8 million insurance swindle , a court was told yesterday . |
| 17 | In his 22 years in the ring , Chiyonofuji racked up a record 1,045 wins and 31 Emperor 's Cups — just one short of the record held by his celebrated predecessor , Taiho . |
| 18 | WHATEVER anyone might think about the amazing Norman Lamont saga , everyone will be agreed on one point : How can lawyers run up a Pounds 23,000 bill so simply ? |
| 19 | I well remember hearing her stamping up the hall one afternoon shouting , ‘ I hate the bloody lot of you . |
| 20 | On the television screen , we would see the moving scanner building up a picture 25 times each second . |
| 21 | It was a wonderful feeling to put up an affirmative two fingers as the mechanic helped me taxi in . |
| 22 | The FEB will try to build up a £10 million fund to create companies that can develop and licence pharmaceutical products . |
| 23 | President Taya had followed up a July 29 amnesty for state security and press law offenders with a further amnesty , announced on Aug. 18 , for people who had been sentenced in their absence and had been in exile for over 15 years . |
| 24 | Gabriel went up the ladder two rungs at a time , and stood sweating behind his cloud . |
| 25 | Arianespace has won a contract to launch a communications satellite for Eutelsat : the contract , Arianespace 's sixth this year , will take its order book to 37 birds worth $3,000m ; Eutelsat II F5 will go up an Ariane 4 rocket from the Kourou Space Centre in French Guiana at the end of 1993 or early next year . |
| 26 | Still riding the crest of that foaming wave , she took up a microphone one day and sang an old classic , which caught the ear of a sharp record producer who would very soon launch her as a pop star . |
| 27 | ‘ I took up the sport six years ago when my local team , the Darlington Dawdlers , were short of a fourth rider . |
| 28 | A member of the Warrington Road runners , he took up the sport six years ago . |
| 29 | For part of the way we linked arms with Fred Lebow who thought up the race 23 years ago and who now has brain cancer and wanted to run it . |
| 30 | The Birse Group notched up a £750 000 saving on insurance premiums through improving their systematic management of health and safety . |