Example sentences of "[pron] be [to-vb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone was to hold up the traffic , another to get the guards , but first someone was sent down the side lane towards St Vincent 's Hospital to alert casualty and summon help . |
| 2 | If she were to climb up the hillock and semaphore with her flags the signals would be clearly outlined against the sky . |
| 3 | He was one of the seven magnates whose confederation in April 1258 began the revolution ; he was one of the baronial twelve who were to draw up the plans of reform ; and he was one of the council of fifteen set up by the Provisions of Oxford to govern England in the king 's name . |
| 4 | If you were to draw up the specification for the ideal material for electronic engineering , I guess it would be something combining the properties of the perfect conductor , the perfect insulator and the ideal semiconductor . |
| 5 | Then she heard Christ speaking to her , saying that she would have victory over all her enemies , and that she was to give up the hair-cloth that she wore and her continual saying of the Rosary , but must stop eating meat . |
| 6 | On July 12 , he named as Matthei 's successor Gen. Ramón Vega , who was to take up the post on July 31 . |
| 7 | In the midst of these , in 1926 , there arrived in India the man who was to take up the challenge Gandhi had thrown down to the Englishman 's belief in his god-given aptitude for rule — the sixteenth viceroy , Lord Irwin . |
| 8 | Mr. Anderson : If we are to fill up the beds in our very welcome Holiday Inn in Swansea , we need , as the Secretary of State will be aware , to clean up Swansea bay . |
| 9 | For as well as suggesting that if we were to give up the view that most actions are autonomous we should have to give up a great deal else as well , it asserts that this transformation of our attitudes is actually beyond us . |
| 10 | Of course , if we were to add up the term in every market/island in the economy we would have the answer zero — the markets with below-average demand cancel out those with above-average demand . |
| 11 | If we were to wind up the POWs fund and pay out the money once and for all to all POWs that we could find , we could run into severe problems in the next 10 to 15 years as these chaps get very old and need help even more . |
| 12 | The rumour was that they were to give up the siege and have their contracts revoked before Christmas . |
| 13 | The intention of the IB is clear ; it is to clean up the game at all levels particularly the shop window of the internationals . |
| 14 | All connections in the pipe must be accessible so the fewer there are , the easier it is to cover up the pipework . |
| 15 | It was to draw up the Constitution of 1812 , the ‘ sacred codex ’ which defined Spanish liberalism as a political creed . |
| 16 | What people can do for themselves is to set up the equivalent of alarm calls : trio wires . |