Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [verb] up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The posters are intended to cheer up the staircase , which is in urgent need of renovation .
2 Turkey 's state-owned Posts , Telegraphs & Telephone Administration is inviting rebids for the contract to set up a Groupe Speciale Mobile digital cellular system : bids had already been received to set up the system on a revenue-sharing basis , but the tender was withdrawn after the PTT decided to set up the system on a concession basis instead .
3 In the UK , and in the USA , the first step has been to try to set up an assessment procedure ( Simpson , 1981 ) ; then to consider how training might best be implemented .
4 COACHING CONTROLLER CARDS : These cards are designed to speed up the pace at which you can get information from your hard disk .
5 A plant 's leaves are ideally placed to detect day length , for they are designed to pick up the sun 's light for photosynthesis .
6 No other party has officially confirmed they will be contesting the election but the SDLP are expected to put up a candidate .
7 The banks are expected to take up an investment stance which is not their true role .
8 Ministers are expected to take up the fight in the next few days and urge the banks that , at a time of national economic crisis , they must do their bit .
9 Between now and Easter , thousands are expected to take up the invitation .
10 Bruce Armitage , Grampian Enterprise 's director of training , stressed that the £100,000 grant had been designed to set up a framework in which other agencies could work .
11 The Supreme Court on July 17 ruled " unreasonable and illegal " the emergency regulations initiated by Housing and Construction Minister Ariel Sharon , which had been designed to speed up the building of accommodation for tens of thousands of Jewish immigrants from the Soviet Union .
12 Finally , Mr Murray said that he had received numerous letters about the selection of the typeface ( Courier ) for all our future correspondence and due to the strength of feeling on this and other layout issues it has been decided to set up a Keyboard Operators panel to discuss the way forward .
13 Parties have been seen flying up the Channel , presumably on migration , twice in April ( 4th , 1961 , and 7th , 1969 ) , and once in March ( 30th , 1971 ) .
14 And a cinnamon and blue nuthatch had been seen creeping up the trunk of a tree towards its mud-patched nesting hole , giving one lad a splendid chance to try out his new birthday present telescope .
15 Established firms are tending to scoop up the talent in the market which is still in second-tier houses — without which they will not survive .
16 Already , however , a committee of assembly members - among them only one Maronite — has been instructed to draw up a report , once the debates are over , on the changes in the covenant which a majority of parliamentarians will accept .
17 From time to time these institutions are instructed to speed up the introduction of Hindi .
18 Yes , we 're going to open up a resort on Mars .
19 ‘ We 're going to hang up the washing on the Siegfried Line … ’
20 We 're going to set up a safari park in the back garden and cream teans on the lawn
21 ‘ The question of whether we 're going to clean up the environment of this country is long over , ’ he told a press conference .
22 When I use a well-known television series as a starting point I start by talking to the children about what we 're going to do and the way we 're going to work : " We 're going to make up a play together .
23 You 're beginning to lighten up a bit .
24 ‘ We 're managing to pick up the sound of one of the males , ’ said a marine biologist , Vassili Papastavrou , as he listened intently through a set of headphones .
25 They 're hoping to turn up a piece of bloodstained clothing or a weapon .
26 She says that they 're trying to clear up the waste created by thousands of people — it 's a long job and they may not have time to do it all .
27 Yes , it 's for the dictionary project , we 're doing a , erm we 're trying to build up a database at the moment of transcribed spoken language .
28 We 're trying to build up a picture of what happened before the event .
29 Now they 're planning to set up a sanctuary for exotic wild animals .
30 So the adapters are attempting to get up the career using sort of tried and tested ways of digging and sort of hauling each other up , and this sort of thing .
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