Example sentences of "[conj] [modal v] [verb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For people with long-standing difficult social circumstances that may throw up a crisis at any time , intervention might best combine practical help with a scheme to foster the person 's sense of control over his or her life , to reduce their sense of hopelessness . |
| 2 | It is the local authorities that must pick up the bill for those problems . |
| 3 | This example was meant to illustrate the unexpected links that might make up a chain of natural interactions , but it is significant that no experimental work was done to test the idea . |
| 4 | Entertainment would come in the form of the funfair , races and sports for the children , sideshows and tents packed with crafts and fancy merchandise , pleasure flights in light aircraft taking off from the company runway , and then , much later in the evening , the grand firework display that would wind up the day 's events . |
| 5 | This is a scaled-down version of what originally was to be an ambitious orbiting craft that would build up a picture of the planet 's surface using radar . |
| 6 | Lawton was struggling to get out of his pack the receiver that would pick up the radio signals from the miniature transceiver Forster said was attached to his slayer . |
| 7 | For it will be a whelp you carry , a small , red-furred beast with sharp teeth and sharper claws that will grow up a bear , a fox , who knows ? |
| 8 | In a move that will prop up the market for contemporary Quebecois art , and at the same time foster the province 's quest to reinforce its distinct cultural identity , the government of Quebec has guaranteed a C$5.4 million ( £2.25 million ; $4.5 million ) bank loan on behalf of the Musée d'art Contemporain de Montreal , enabling that institution to purchase en bloc 1,300 works ninety percent contemporary Quebecois amassed by the bankrupt engineering firm Lavalin Inc . |
| 9 | The US Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) has committed itself to reforms that will speed up the approval of drugs and reduce development costs . |
| 10 | The antenna that will pick up the signals is a 12-metre dish built in the US and specially erected at the Rutherford and Appleton Laboratory at Chilton . |
| 11 | A suspension system that can soak up the bumps of a ploughed field or gravel road , can not offer the smooth ride on roads and motorways that the top of the market owners would expect . |
| 12 | At about the same time as the State Department was receiving this cable from their most senior man on the spot , Secretary of State Byrnes was cabling the Paris embassy that the French were planning to reconquer Tonkin and might set up a puppet government ; while in Hanoi the French commander , General Morlière , was claiming that the US and Chinese consuls had denounced the ‘ criminal and bestial folly ’ of the Vietminh ; although apparently they had n't said a word one way or the other . |
| 13 | Sooner or later he would be too exhausted to think straight and would give up the fight against himself . |
| 14 | ‘ Labour supports action to prevent crime and would set up a partnership between the police , the council and the local people . |
| 15 | Mr Fallon said the Conservatives aimed to reduce the emission of gases and would set up an environment agency . |
| 16 | He called them spectaculars and would set up the storyline , do the lyrics and librettos with J. J. Wood and co-write the music with Cuthbert Clarke . |
| 17 | As far as William was concerned , seizing the English throne was just one move in his struggle to resist the growing power of France that had already lasted twenty years and would take up the whole of the rest of his life . |
| 18 | It was magnificent and would come up a treat with a rubbing of linseed oil . |
| 19 | The Broadcasting Standards Council is placed on a statutory footing , and will draw up a code ‘ giving guidance ’ on violence , sex and ‘ standards of taste and decency ’ . |
| 20 | The infusion of cash to the Antarctic should be worth A$50 to 80 million over the next four to five years and will open up the continent to direct flights from Australia . |
| 21 | He is off to New Zealand with the International XV next month and will keep up the traditions set by Van Vollenhoven , Englebrecht , Muller , Nomis , Mordt and Du Plessis — to name but a few of the recent greats . |
| 22 | In keeping with our policy of a sustained level of capital expenditure irrespective of industry cycles , we will be investing further in latest generation hardware and will speed up the introduction of new field software . |
| 23 | Women with babies have something in common and can strike up a conversation , and the old and the young find it easy to talk to one another when there is a baby in the picture . |
| 24 | The point to emphasise is that the data is only of help to those who know the patient and can build up a case history . |