Example sentences of "up [prep] business " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that day , all of a sudden , you 'd never know we were hard up for business . |
| 2 | A year later , he played a central role in founding the Group of 89 , a faction made up of business and professional members of the BLCC who wanted to see a conservative model for Hong Kong 's political development . |
| 3 | ‘ When we were first married , I knew you would have to spend quite a lot of time on your own , when I was tied up with business affairs . |
| 4 | A dresser holds a collection of old tins that once contained pills for headaches , stomach and liver ailments , concocted by Tim 's great-grandfather , a manufacturing chemist who set up in business in the 1880s . |
| 5 | ‘ I had little hope of re-employment , and so it seemed to me that the only thing to do was to set up in business , ’ he explains . |
| 6 | They sold the cutter at a profit , and travelled the length of the country to Edinburgh , where they set up in business , this time as respectable linen drapers . |
| 7 | ‘ As a matter of fact , he set up in business for himself — not far away , in Mile End . ’ |
| 8 | As an apprentice plumber he endured years of chilblains and chapped hands due to constant submersion in cold water until he set himself up in business in London . |
| 9 | He set up in business as an antique dealer but , according to Herbert Cranko , ‘ seems to have loved his stock more than his customers , often refusing to sell a cherished piece to a disliked buyer ’ . |
| 10 | The company manufactured electrical components and suffered serious competition from ex-employees who set up in business themselves and poached the company 's customers . |
| 11 | Livewire helps young people aged 16–25 who want to set up in business . |
| 12 | John stormed out and set up in business on his own . |
| 13 | J. went off to another station at one point for a two week course on shoe repairing and general leatherwork — not that he was thinking of setting up in business as a cobbler , but figuring that a free training on any practical skill was worth having . |
| 14 | Eckford started up in business again as a shipbuilder and soon re-established his high reputation . |
| 15 | To help absorb the effects , BP set up a company called D'Arcy Developments , which aimed to help the unemployed set up in business . |
| 16 | The Big Brother of ‘ 1984 ’ will have set up in business , a few years late perhaps , but with effective tabs upon everyone . |
| 17 | Tom Conti plays Lucas Frye , a former spy , who teams up in business with a strait-laced ex-colleague Peter Duckham ( John Standing ) . |
| 18 | A short pilgrimage , to be sure : John Frederick and Thomas Hasted set up in business as coopers in Well Close Square and , later , in nearby Princes Square . |
| 19 | Yet at the time , he admits , he saw it merely as a way to travel , learn the ropes and then set up in business on his own account . |
| 20 | John started up in business again . |
| 21 | Set up in agreement with the Board of Trade and the Department of Social Security , the ER scheme allows new entrepreneurs to set up in business for three months without losing any state benefits . |
| 22 | Julian never paid back the money , even though he started up in business again and eventually did all right for himself . |
| 23 | Those taking up job-release allowances must not take a job or set up in business on their own , and their employer must undertake to recruit as soon as possible a registered unemployed worker . |
| 24 | Besides John Winchcombe , junior , who was assessed at the unusually high figure of £630 , Newbury in 1522 had three residents worth £100 or so and ten more in the £40 — £99 range , including William Dolman who had been the elder Winchcombe 's works manager ; now , at 100 marks , he might already have set up in business for himself . |
| 25 | Many keen to set up in business will also be hampered because they have been unable to build up capital . |
| 26 | This guy who lives round the corner had just come out and he 'd started up in business again and he was laying it on me a gram at a time and I was doing it out in bags . |
| 27 | Private Enterprise THE UNORTHODOX GREEK Why does a European middle manager choose to set up in business in Britain ? |
| 28 | For the two students some creative thinking provided the solution — to set up in business of their own . |
| 29 | So , too , were a number of producer co-operatives by workpeople determined to set up in business themselves whether , by competing with master manufacturers , to reinforce the effect of a strike ; or to counter a lock-out ; or in response to wage-cuts ; or simply to create jobs . |
| 30 | The franchise is a form of business which has grown up in recent years and offers the would-be entrepreneur what may at first sight appear to be an easy way to start up in business . |