Example sentences of "[be] [verb] up [art] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Civil war has been eating up the country for five years . |
| 2 | Fran Bennett , CPAG director , suggests both major parties are softening up the public for more means-testing and fewer rights to universal benefits . |
| 3 | Its the , its for the Oxford English Dictionary , its erm , what they 're doing is they 're making up a Dictionary for just using everyday collocation and they |
| 4 | You 're setting up a place for people to live and conduct their business , and the people most able to do that are the gipsies themselves . |
| 5 | ‘ You wo n't be paying for inappropriate placements and you wo n't be picking up the bill for carers later . |
| 6 | Mr. Duggan will still be tutoring in French from Kingsley Centre and one of his plans could be to set up a shop for Christian books , publications and cards in the Alton area . |
| 7 | Pundits reckon that Rocco Forte — boss of the Little Chef to Happy Eater chain — could be lining up a takeover for the prestigious London group and the price of the Savoy ‘ A ’ shares rocketed from 633p to 710p , before closing at £7 . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , and they 've been reading up the stuff for years . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Delaney had a split second to realise that all along it had been setting up a trap for them . |
| 11 | Univel Inc , the Novell Inc/Unix System Labs joint venture for Destiny , is picking up the charter for recruiting the all-important software for the soon-to-debut desktop operating system from USL and this week will announce an early access programme that will get binary code into independent software developers ' hands immediately . |
| 12 | Five minutes into the second half , the parry was from the boy was looking for his first goal , and it 's picking up the pieces for his second of the afternoon . |
| 13 | He 's drawn up a route for a walk to the South Pole … of Mars , that is . |
| 14 | He 's set up a meeting for tomorrow with his financial boys , and I get the impression he 's very keen , but it 's all down to what he wants for the equity investment and how much I 'm prepared to give him . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ He 's put up a reward for Mahoney 's killer . |
| 16 | PACE the free and confidential counselling service for lesbians and gay men , is setting up a group for lesbian and gay carers facilitated by a PACE counsellor . |
| 17 | You say that Hatchetfish are not suitable for a beginner , nor should they be sold to someone who is setting up an aquarium for the first time . |
| 18 | Labour said it was stepping up the pressure for an urgent Commons statement from the Chancellor to clarify which areas of spending were ruled in or out from the Treasury review . |
| 19 | David tells about his night-time television viewing being interrupted by a prompting to pray ; then of several trips to New York all with no clear understanding that he was to set up a programme for those involved in drug abuse . |
| 20 | Believing that artisans should be well housed , his last initiative was to set up the Society for the Promotion of Industrial Villages in 1884 . |
| 21 | He came across it raiding his fruit garden , unwisely wounded it with buckshot , and was chased up a tree for his trouble . |