Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [to-vb] 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cellular system : bids had already been received to set up the system on a revenue-sharing basis , but the tender was withdrawn after the PTT decided to set up the system on a concession basis instead .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 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | From time to time these institutions are instructed to speed up the introduction of Hindi . |
| 16 | Yes , we 're going to open up a resort on Mars . |
| 17 | ‘ We 're going to hang up the washing on the Siegfried Line … ’ |
| 18 | We 're going to set up a safari park in the back garden and cream teans on the lawn |
| 19 | ‘ The question of whether we 're going to clean up the environment of this country is long over , ’ he told a press conference . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | You 're beginning to lighten up a bit . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | They 're hoping to turn up a piece of bloodstained clothing or a weapon . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | We 're trying to build up a picture of what happened before the event . |
| 27 | Now they 're planning to set up a sanctuary for exotic wild animals . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Three other LEDs are used to set up the operating status , arranged in a horizontal ‘ traffic light ’ formation : red indicates that the input signal is below the Threshold level , yellow that it has reached Threshold , and the green that it is above Threshold . |
| 30 | These early payments are used to clear up the cost of setting it up — and in particular the commission of the agent who sold it to you . |