Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] be [verb] up [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The department was set up four years ago when responsibility for NMS property passed to the Museums ' Trustees . |
| 2 | The wind is whistling up this and within seconds my face is frozen . |
| 3 | Nona stared at the grey river where the wind was picking up little waves and throwing them against the walls of the river walk . |
| 4 | On the fist occasion , the effect was to build up worrying inflationary pressures ; on the second , it was to create more bankruptcies , higher unemployment , lower investment ( thus higher unit costs ) and , arguably — with a persistent tendency for wage costs to continue to rise — higher , not lower , inflation . |
| 5 | A number of places in the faculty are taken up each year by students who are already , or are about to become , graduates in other disciplines . |
| 6 | But the corridor is lit up both ways . |
| 7 | The aim is to open up higher education to under-represented groups through provision which offers enhanced support plus guaranteed further training at the end of one year . |
| 8 | There have to be , there are particular reasons why er after revolutionary upheavals you very often get authoritarian forms of government and I would say in Russia and i i in a sense it 's linked with Harold 's question as well about erm the Chinese following a Stalinist model of economic reconstruction think what you 've actually got in Russia is not this sort of mass hankering after authoritarianism but you 've got a situation where the bureaucracy that controls a completely devastated , backward economy , which is what they 've actually got in the early nineteen twenties , where the working class democracy has just disappeared really with , with the , with the economic collapse , with the factories shutting down , with all of the old communist party militants going into the Red Army or getting sucked into the state bureaucracy with that sort of complete collapse really , economically and socially and politically , you 've got a situation where the central priority of the leadership is to build up Russian industry as quickly as possible so that Russia has got the armed forces it needs |
| 9 | According to Mason , ‘ The foundation was set up six months ago before the Canaletto 's sale was made public . |
| 10 | Tens of thousands of East Berliners streamed to the West , unhindered for the first time since the Wall was put up 28 years ago . |
| 11 | The government are paying up all the money . |
| 12 | The Arab 's cutting up rough . ’ |
| 13 | The EIT was set up last year to help fund university research which could help underpin the technological base of Europe 's industry . |
| 14 | Alan Eastwood believes the the answer is to lock up young offenders instead of releasing them to commit further crimes . |
| 15 | The project is following up those young people who have left the Association 's training schemes in the last few years and is investigating , through questionnaires and interviews , how the employers of those ex-trainees make their recruitment decisions . |
| 16 | The heating was turned up high to dull his audience 's senses , to make them more receptive to what he was saying . |
| 17 | One frame of the film is exposed every six seconds and if the film is then shown at 24 frames a second , the motion is speeded up 144 times and provides a dramatic picture of the cells ' behaviour . |
| 18 | The idea is to pick up individual blocks , move them around and drop them next to matching blocks to make them disappear . |
| 19 | The idea is to mop up some of the surplus spending power that is causing inflation . |
| 20 | After paying for travel , accommodation , meals and for p.o.s. , the company was picking up 80 to 90% of the bill each time . |
| 21 | The unit was started up three days ahead of scheule and with no incidents . |
| 22 | what the valency is to make up this formula you could do the same if it was if someone told you it was an some unknown So if it 's an unknown compound and I drip Let's say it was unknown compound and I dripped hydrochloric acid on and I got carbon dioxide given off yeah |
| 23 | Lights from gaslamps which were positioned round the walls of the theatre were dimmed — lamps placed at the edge of the stage were turned up full and Albert DeNero was drenched with light . |
| 24 | The fire was built up higher than usual to guide them back to the camp , but also , Riven thought , because they were imagining the packs of grypesh coming after them out of the heights of the hills . |
| 25 | He caught the glint of a smile from Fael-Inis at that , and felt a sudden delight , because the fire was surging up all about them , and Fael-Inis had taken up a stance at the fore of the Chariot , and he was gathering up silken reins between his hands , only the reins were of living colour and shifting light , and there were certainly spells within them as there had certainly been spells in the Chamber of the Looms … |
| 26 | But the expedition was held up all through the winter , and Bêcherel fell to the French on 1 November . |
| 27 | If a grandparent were to set up such an accumulation trust for the benefit of grandchildren , then income can be paid out to a grandchild when a minor and unmarried , without the income being aggregated with the income of the grandparent or the parents of the beneficiary . |