Example sentences of "[to-vb] up a [adj] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | CEDRIC Pioline and Wally Masur produced another round of magic yesterday to conjure up an unlikely meeting in the semi-finals of the US Open . |
| 2 | But in a cold , late spring I find it difficult if not impossible to work up a good tilth in time for mangolds . |
| 3 | He looked around the shop for Emmanuel , who was trying to pick up an elderly man in a smart business suit . |
| 4 | The Canadian team developed this into a practical investigation aid and willingly helped Ray Davis , the AIB flight recorder specialist , to set up a similar system in the UK . |
| 5 | Billy Neilson , a prominent Wear Valley councillor until last May 's Christopherian coup , was approached the other day by someone seeking to set up a small business in Sunderland . |
| 6 | One of her latest projects is to set up a paper-making plant in Nepal . |
| 7 | Informix Software Inc intends to set up a wholly-owned subsidiary in Eastern Europe during the next few months , but 80% of its business will remain with value-added resellers and distributors . |
| 8 | This astonishing success , considering the size of his forces and the difficulty of much of the terrain over which he fought , only succeeded in outraging Alfonso , who seems to have believed — or been persuaded to believe — that El Cid intended to set up a rival kingdom in Valencia . |
| 9 | When peace came in 1801 , Gibbs was able to set up a profitable business in Cadiz . |
| 10 | Robert Aaron , of Low Coniscliffe , has applied to the council for permission to set up a portable building in his garden for village events . |
| 11 | We would like to set up a SPRED group in this area but we need helpers . |
| 12 | Hence , it was natural to become preoccupied with climate and to try to set up a geomorphological scheme in which climate dominated erosion and erosion dominated structure and lithology , so that every climatic zone had its characteristic landforms . |
| 13 | Simultaneously a dozen Greek newspapers were being financed by British money , which was also used in the same year to set up a pro-British magazine in Japan . |
| 14 | Luckily this has n't hurt my fish , but the reason for the purchase in the first place is that I plan to set up a marine tank in the near future and I wanted to check my local tapwater . |
| 15 | Q Please could you give me some information on Red Shiners , as I would like to set up a coldwater tank in which to keep some . |
| 16 | Response to the Jordan project appeal to set up a non-alcoholic bar in Cambridge has been excellent . |
| 17 | The Government seems to be trying to destroy the education and health services in Britain and to set up an alternative system in which wealth rules . |
| 18 | She moved from a successful career in London to set up an events-arranging company in Liverpool back in 1989 . |
| 19 | One of the first cities to set up an Architectural Department in 1938 , an exhibition in May-June 1939 illustrated plans for a redesigned civic centre , with lectures by such well known authorities on town planning as Thomas Sharp , author of Oxford Re-planned , and Clough Williams-Ellis , builder of the Italianate village of Portmeirion in Snowdonia . |
| 20 | Mill Reef returned to Longchamp the following spring to notch up a ten-length victory in the Prix Ganay , but after a lacklustre display when beating Homeric a neck in the Coronation Cup at Epsom he did not race again : he was being prepared for a second Arc when on 30 August 1972 he fractured a foreleg on the gallops , and was retired to stud . |
| 21 | The simpler option is to put up a false ceiling in the room concerned , with a 100mm layer of insulation and a vapour barrier above it . |
| 22 | The Presidents of six Amazon Basin states — Bolivia , Brazil , Colombia , Ecuador , Guyana and Surinam — together with representatives of Peru and Venezuela , held a two-day summit meeting in Manaus , Brazil , on Feb. 10-12 to draw up a joint position in advance of the UN Conference on Environment and Development ( UNCED ) in June . |
| 23 | ( d ) Unsuccessful attempts to persuade other teachers to give up a reserve lesson in order to supervise the library . |
| 24 | It may be the loss of a partner or the onset of mental illness in a parent which first causes a nurse to give up a successful career in order to care full-time at home . |
| 25 | He supported the alliance because to take the cooperative movement into the Labour Party wholly would not help the Labour Party : and it was necessary to build up a political consciousness in the movement so that cooperative ideals could be translated by political machinery . |
| 26 | Will others choose to keep up a continuous presence in covering Yugoslavia in the way that we have over the past year ? |
| 27 | Folly followed her guide , praying that the girl would n't ask why she wanted to see Luke Hunter , and trying to think up a good excuse in case she did . |
| 28 | Several standard-bearing veterans of the uprising were forced hastily to switch positions — and the soldier carrying the wreath sprinted 50 yards to take up a new position in front of the prince . |
| 29 | In June , Sacheverell started a lengthy progress through the midlands , on his way to take up a new living in Shropshire , and virtually everywhere he went he received a rapturous reception from the local inhabitants shouting " God Bless Doctor Sacheverell " . |
| 30 | When the British naval officer Captain ( later Admiral ) Colomb passed through Alexandria to Suez on his way to take up a new command in the anti-slavery squadron in 1868 , he wrote of the rudimentary nature of stations in Egypt . |