Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [noun sg] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dressing often becomes a battle at this time , as you try to hurry the process by helping where help is n't wanted and she becomes more and more frustrated when her leg goes in the wrong hole or the jumper ends up back to front . |
| 2 | In Alton Locke Kingsley takes the reader into a house like the ones depicted by Godwin with the caption given ( Fig. 35 ) , where the rushlight picks up reflections through the broad chinks in the floorboards of the sewer below . |
| 3 | It 's likely that the decision to blow up Pan Am Flight 103 was made in Tehran , in revenge for the downing of an Iranian Airbus over the Persian Gulf by the USS Vincennes in 1988 , killing 290 civilians . |
| 4 | The report suggests that the decision to set up hospital trusts in Scotland resulted either from ‘ deference ’ to the arguments of groups applying for trust status , or from ‘ blind determination to implement unpopular policy ’ . |
| 5 | Although the Commission drew up proposals , adopted by the Council in June 1980 , no conferences have been held since . |
| 6 | We were the first up the hill and had to break a path , so although a summer walk up Schiehallion is simple and quick to the point of disappointment , winter is a trifle harder . |
| 7 | So far as the former are concerned , the Act ( as does the Financial Services Act ) assumes that public issues of debentures will be undertaken by the same methods as issues of shares and it provides that a contract to take up debentures , like one to take up shares , may be enforced by an order for specific performance . |
| 8 | The effective full employment also provided the mechanism to push up wages . |
| 9 | In these schemes , a widow 's or widower 's pension can only be achieved if the member gives up part of their own retirement pension . |
| 10 | If the price goes up 9% and his costs stay about the same maybe up 5% or so , er his actual bottom line is his income at the end of the year will in fact increase by about 60% . |
| 11 | Premadasa on March 23 appealed to the LTTE to " enter the democratic process " , promising that " if the LTTE gives up violence , the government will lose no time in holding fresh elections to the North-Eastern Provincial Council and to the local government institutions in that province " . |
| 12 | If the paddler builds up speed and then stops paddling , the boat will drift on in a straight line . |
| 13 | It singles out one form of non-marital living arrangement and penalises it ( if the woman sets up house with her sister , her father , her adult children or her lesbian lover she would still have some entitlement to SB ) . |
| 14 | Capital costs have risen as a result of increasing use of bought deals , and the need to set up research and secondary market trading operations ( to satisfy institutional investors ' liquidity requirements and to gain an investor base to complement primary activities ) , although capital requirements as such do not prevent a market being contestable . |
| 15 | The text is written in a breezy matter-of-fact manner and the introduction sets up questions which to those concerned with the kind of intellectual knock-about ideas belonging to the esoteric world of criticism , would be important . |
| 16 | The hirer sued the owner of the excavator as vicariously liable for the driver 's negligence , and the owner set up clause 8 of the contract as a defence , on the basis that it transferred liability for the driver 's actions to the hirer . |
| 17 | When he was twelve , his father found a better post in Liverpool , and the family moved up north . |
| 18 | perhaps even more importantly , the Commonwealth representatives agreed on four ‘ freedoms ’ of the air that would form the basis of an international settlement : the right of innocent passage over sovereign territory ; the right to land for non-traffic purposes ( i.e. refuelling , repairs , and emergencies ) ; the right to land passengers , mail , and freight from the airline 's country of origin ; and the right to pick up passengers , mail , and freight for passage to the airline 's country of origin . |
| 19 | Allegations of treason were made concerning the loss of lands in France , a matter which may have particularly concerned the Kentishmen , whose vulnerability to raids was obvious , and who may well have been alarmed by the issue of a commission of array , and a command to set up warning beacons , on 14 April . |
| 20 | Thus , the decision by the county at the end of the following season not to re-engage him and Garner came as an enormous surprise and caused a furore ; from the emotional angle it was poor reward for years of devoted service , but rationally , since the opportunity to sign up Martin Crowe of New Zealand , who promised so much , had either to be taken or lost , it was a sensible move . |
| 21 | Since the system picks up satellite telly , goggle box addicts need n't have an ugly giant saucer stuck on their home . |
| 22 | Soon after the path scrambles up North-West Gully a prominent corner crack can be found . |
| 23 | Chant did so , slamming the cab door with no little satisfaction , and barely managing to reach the seat before the cab picked up speed . |
| 24 | It was the 1730s before the government stumped up compensation for those whose houses had been damaged or destroyed and among them was one James Sharp , ancestor of Jane , my great-grandmother , whom I still remember being taken to visit as a child . |
| 25 | When the government set up Local Enterprise Companies as an important tool for economic development there was no place in their plans for trade union representation . |
| 26 | Our assistance breaks that barrier while allowing for the funds to come back to the Network when the company steps up production and is earning a return on its investment . |
| 27 | The Unit is sponsored by the Scottish Home and Health Department , the Scottish Health Education Group and the Economic and Social Research Council and commenced operation when the Director took up post in September 1983 . |
| 28 | There was n't any problem with old Pinkie Blenkinsop , but when the matter came up Trueman refused to give a promise that we could all stay here until we were carried out feet first . |
| 29 | As the interview winds up Bruce Foxton is complaining bitterly about yer' man 's Nigel Mansell impersonation going over Vauxhall Bridge . |
| 30 | As the boat picks up speed , so you can settle gently into the boat to gain control . |