Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [to-vb] up a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Leeds have managed only one clean sheet all season and are desperate to shore up a defence that was the cornerstone of last year 's success . |
| 32 | Being able to pick up a colour and press it on coloured paper was all very exciting . |
| 33 | As a result of their conversations they were able to draw up a list of MPs favourable to abolition . |
| 34 | The Melrose pack were able to step up a gear when they wanted , especially with Gala 's entire front row absent . |
| 35 | Not surprisingly princes were concerned to build up a position of strength during their fathers ' lifetimes . |
| 36 | AFTER A couple of years on the indie circuit , Arista signed The Hollow Men , releasing their ‘ Cresta ’ album late last year , and it looked like these hard-working Leeds-based popsters were ready to step up a league and move on to a new , higher profile . |
| 37 | Youth Club In the junior section there has been a steady attendance and it has been necessary to set up a waiting list . |
| 38 | Youth Club In the junior section there has been a steady attendance and it has been necessary to set up a waiting list . |
| 39 | By lining a perforated box with filter matting , covering with a layer of gravel , and filling with planting media and bog plants it 's possible to set up a vegetable filter over the back of a tank . |
| 40 | ( It is possible to set up a system to gradually add your tank water while discarding the shop water but this should not be necessary ) . |
| 41 | However , using this facility , it is possible to build up a library of machine code utilities for use by a number of programs . |
| 42 | It is possible to build up a design through various tones by repeated immersions in the acid and stopping-out with varnish . |
| 43 | In cases like the French verb system it is possible to build up a drill containing all the tenses of the verb and all the pronouns within the framework of one drill . |
| 44 | If this is the same person as the author of the Gospel then it is possible to build up a picture of him . |
| 45 | It is valuable to collect information from the family network , and from involved professionals , as by weighing up and balancing different contributions it is possible to build up a picture of recent events to complete an assessment . |
| 46 | It is possible to make up a tube by winding and gluing layers of brown paper round a suitable former . |
| 47 | It is easy to draw up a list of opposed attitudes and values , based on this antithesis , such as the following : |
| 48 | It is easy to draw up a light-curve for a variable star . |
| 49 | No bogus student who 's slipped through the system is likely to take up a polytechnic place ; the paperwork is what they 're after , not the course work . |
| 50 | Especially at a time of recession and high unemployment , it is hard to give up a source of income and jobs . |
| 51 | Sometimes it 's helpful to write up a word so that you draw attention to the fact that its syllables form other words : island — is land ; breakfast — break fast . |
| 52 | It is difficult to pick up a magazine these days and not see an article or item of news about the latest attack on some computer or other . |
| 53 | Before choosing a new location it is necessary to draw up a list of all the company 's requirements and objectives . |
| 54 | Gazza is eager to fix up a friendly with his former club and Newcastle chairman Sir John Hall said : ‘ Our fans would love to see Gazza back at St James ' Park . ’ |
| 55 | It 's horrid to give up a leave that you really have earned , and I 'm sorry to have to ask you . |
| 56 | They argue that it is unnatural to break up a programme which was made to be viewed as a whole . |
| 57 | This meant that it was possible to make up a test focused at the middle of the target attainment range with a minimum of trialling . |
| 58 | There was no clear theory of jurisdiction and it was impossible to draw up a set of rules which could be used to predict when the courts would intervene . |
| 59 | He secured some West Riding support for what came to him to be a cause , but his own town , proud of its independence in educational provision , was reluctant to set up a school board after the Education Act of 1870 . |
| 60 | Nevertheless , on the first night of the war he was able to round up a ring of twenty-one German spies in an effectively timed and executed coup which probably deprived the Germans of any information on Britain 's initial military dispositions . |