Example sentences of "[be] [verb] up [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | We also pledge that when we are drawing up the membership of the commission we shall take into account his earlier suggestions about widening the membership . |
| 2 | Because it is autumn again , and the frosts have arrived , they are knocking up a spot of cider . |
| 3 | Pete was now beginning to wonder if she was feeling ill ; it was almost as if , for the latter part of the evening , she 'd only been keeping up a show of enjoying herself and now the strain of the charade was getting through to her . |
| 4 | Yes because previous to this year , erm the R C E has been picking up a proportion of their costs . |
| 5 | I despise the stupidity of those painters who defended the removal of ‘ Guernica ’ to its new air-conditioned penthouse because , in setting such a precedent , they are passing up the opportunity of bequeathing their own works to the Prado . |
| 6 | Now I accept that if you 're adding up a column of figures you ca n't say well it 's within a few thousand well that 'll do . |
| 7 | And from his Portakabin headquarters behind barbed wire round the back of the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre complex , ‘ actually a great improvement on the one room we had inside until this month ! ’ , he 's been lining up a string of new sponsorship deals . |
| 8 | As the Venice Biennale approaches its centenary year , political machinations , seemingly so dear to the heart of Italian and particularly Venetian cultural activities , are holding up the appointment of new members of the Management Committee which is responsible for the programme of the Biennale over the next four years . |
| 9 | I asked him what he 'd been doing out East and he said he 'd been starting up a chain of these shops in Japan . ’ |
| 10 | His response had been to build up the power of his supporters the Nevilles : Richard earl of Warwick and his brothers John , who was made earl of Northumberland , and George , who became archbishop of York . |
| 11 | His response had been to build up the power of his supporters the Nevilles : Richard earl of Warwick and his brothers John , who was made earl of Northumberland , and George , who became archbishop of York . |
| 12 | The aim of successive American administrations had been to build up the strength of the most vulnerable states in the area — those known until the Second World War as French Indo-China and later divided into the separate states of Vietnam , Laos and Cambodia . |
| 13 | Oyston had been brought up the son of a Durham miner and had moved to Blackpool with his parents when they went to open a boarding house . |
| 14 | The idea is not to block them out or pretend that they never happened — indeed you would be building up a store of problems for the future If you did so — but to prevent them forming part of your future . |
| 15 | This is because both syntactic and semantic constraints affect the speed of word recognition even fairly early on in a clause , and , for this to happen , a listener must be building up an analysis of both aspects while proceeding through the clause . |
| 16 | As a matter of interest , I 'm totting up the sum of his holdings as I go along . |
| 17 | A better solution may well be to pick up the idea of rotating the audit partner every five to 10 years . |
| 18 | This time he seems to be picking up the signals of some approaching hostility towards him . |
| 19 | In some quarters it was suggested that the best solution would be to set up a government of ‘ national trustees ’ , headed by McKenna , who had deserted politics for banking and had not sat in ; Parliament since 1918 . |
| 20 | He says the plan will be to open up a number of railway lines and connect local communities and they 'll make good family cycling ; not the steep gradients mountain bikers like , but nice gradients related to the old gradients of the railway lines . |
| 21 | The next step will be to draw up a set of criteria which personnel users new to computing , or the experienced user representing their interests , can use to make a sensible choice . |
| 22 | And she knew that her male colleagues would be propping up the bar of a public house , by eleven o'clock . |
| 23 | Old ICM hands had nodded sagely and told us how difficult it would be to keep up the pace of attending the plenary , the working parties , the fringe meetings and the delegation briefings … and did we believe them ? |
| 24 | Instead , I 'll be taking up the ideas of Mr. Peter A. Fletcher and others for some more modern rock'n'roll and country licks . |
| 25 | The company had also trimmed £46,000 from its advertising budget , and would be putting up the price of cards from 20p to 25p . |
| 26 | ‘ The idea was that he would be taken up a couple of hundred feet , ’ said Gavin Birkett . |
| 27 | Hopefully , early next year we will be setting up a network of reporters from all WGEC locations to make sure that all your news gets reported . |
| 28 | We noted earlier that the immediate effect of increased investment in investment trusts would be to push up the price of their shares without resulting in any extra flow of funds from savers to borrowers . |
| 29 | In about two or three weeks they 're gon na be digging up every inch of pavement and every inch they can get their hands on . |
| 30 | We are served up a series of bizarre experiments which converge into a monster mutant which can absorb all human and mechanical objects in its path . |