Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [to-vb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 As Lord Wilberforce said in Anisminic : ‘ Although , in theory perhaps , it may be possible for Parliament to set up a tribunal which has full and autonomous powers to fix its own area of operation , that has , so far , not been done in this country . ’
2 Our transsexual flatmate was one of the main organisers of the campaign , and we were all active supporters — not least by paying the rent for LAMBDA to set up an office in our squat .
3 Saturday morning , and once again a fair and breezy day , so fair that I decided to give myself a holiday from writing , and go straight after breakfast to pick up the supplies I would need for the weekend .
4 He is said by reliable sources to be negotiating with both the US and Iran for compensation to give up the business , playing one nation off against the other .
5 Summerbee struck right on the stroke of half-time to set up a clash with France impressive 3–0 winners over Portugal in the final tomorrow .
6 It took the squadron all the remaining hours of daylight to clean up the airfield .
7 The prehistory of Islay is not easily understood and one must use a great deal of imagination to build up a picture from what has been learnt by Investigation and excavation , bearing in mind that isolated pieces of evidence may be entirely unrepresentative of the normal life of the community .
8 No doubt it would not be beyond the wit of nature to join up the cellulose molecules sideways with primary chemical bonds so that it would be thoroughly tied together and would have much the same strength in every direction .
9 Authorises the Accountant of Court to deliver up the petitioner 's Bond of Caution .
10 It requested him " to direct the Board of Education to set up an inquiry into the present state of the education of the deaf or to direct that a combined system of oral and manual instruction should be adopted in the schools for the deaf " .
11 ‘ The lack of authority to build up a network of trans-Atlantic routes from Stansted was another factor in this decision , ’ said Mr Mirka .
12 He was admiring the dexterity of a young street orderly , who was darting into the stream of traffic to scoop up the piles of horse-droppings , when he heard the rattle of the door knob .
13 In a fog I crawled out of bed to pick up a blanket which had fallen on the floor , and as I did so I glanced through into the living room and made out , in the darkness , Changez Lying on his camp-bed watching me .
14 The request which was made to me in Committee was to bring forward amendments to enable the Secretary of State to set up a funding council , on the clear understanding that no commitment was being given that we would wish to do such a thing .
15 The Minister confirms what we are saying , that there is no commitment on behalf of the Secretary of State to set up a funding council .
16 The B M A wants tougher controls on the use of pesticides ; Sir Christopher Booth , the Chairman of the working party which produced the report , also wants the Department of Health to set up a pesticide incident monitoring unit , in addition to a reduction in the use of chemicals .
17 Jean Moncrieff ( Mrs Seglow ) has been seconded to the Department of Health to set up an information ‘ clearing house ’ on the Children Act 1989 .
18 This does involve a lot of money laid out on different colours and a lot of time to build up a collection .
19 It has asked the Department of Trade and Industry for approval to set up a vehicle to provide names with a way of getting out of open years .
20 Now that will need to be assessed by the council as a whole against it 's priorities with regard to the balancing of the use of capital against capital to prop up the revenue er expenditure of the council and conceivably er to deal with the problems arising er out of government er legislation and clearly we are going to have to make some decisions decisions about this .
21 The guides were hot and thirsty , but as Miss Lodsworth went to the kitchen tap for water to fill up the jugs of concentrated lemon squash , only a trickle came out of the tap .
22 In a further twist , a book by Theodor B. Donson , entitled Prints and the Print Market , published in 1977 and brought to the attention of The Art Newspaper by a restorer from Chicago , is now being used as evidence to back up the defence against Goldreyer 's extraordinary libel suits against critics of his restoration , totalling no less than $125 million .
23 Those persistent but slightly fattening habits which are the key to your weight problem could be : having ‘ densely packed ’ calories at meals ( that means having a lot of fat , either visible such as butter on your bread or invisible like butter in a cake ) ; snacking in between meals , especially if those snacks include cream , alcohol and sugar ; and not expending energy with exercise to use up the calories .
24 ‘ I 'm just popping into town to pick up a parcel from the station .
25 Under pressure to clear up the confusion surrounding the direction of its Distributed Management Environment , Open Software Foundation DME technology manager Kathryn De Nitto says the group will make a statement within two weeks which should answer some of the questions on many lips .
26 Under pressure to clear up the confusion surrounding the direction of its Distributed Management Environment , Open Software Foundation DME technology manager Kathryn De Nitto says the group will make a statement within two weeks which should answer some of the questions on many lips .
27 Negotiations are also under way to set up a Stroke Sufferers Group and a support group for Dementia patients .
28 a metal frame in which metal type and blocks ( engravings ) are locked into position to make up a page .
29 In Western Europe legislators have ceded sweeping powers to make detailed regulations to central government executives , allowing them in effect to write up the law ‘ as they go along ’ in a discretionary way .
30 Dr. Steve Barnett resigned his GEC research fellowship in Engineering to take up a lectureship at King 's College , London .
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