Example sentences of "[to-vb] up [noun] in [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well last Friday a man with a white wig , Lord Justice McCowan used five even more devastating words to sum up life in The Sun : ‘ Sensational , inaccurate and misleading coverage . ’ |
| 2 | jobs , maybe a good eye to pick up faults in the pattern and that but as for you have to be clever I think it 's senseless . |
| 3 | Republicans are likely to pick up seats in the House , so he might have more leverage there , but this will be counter-balanced by the probable increase in the number of Democratic seats in the Senate . |
| 4 | The agenda included a discussion of a rota to set up displays in the library , policy on the acquisition of periodicals and an intended course on information retrieval to be related to the library skills already incorporated in the basic studies programme . |
| 5 | Should both the Clacton and Harwich travel-to-work areas receive assisted area status firms can be given grants to set up shop in the area . |
| 6 | A Middlesbrough Council spokesman said the authority 's policy was to buy up properties in the area with a view to demolition . |
| 7 | Also , some of the profits of companies attempting a takeover may be captured by insiders , and the acquiring company may find it more difficult to buy up shares in the target company as a result of insider dealing . |
| 8 | So it was no skin off my nose , it was no big deal to shut up shop in the middle of the day . |
| 9 | The new party leadership appealed on television for unity and national support and pledged its co-operation with opposition groups to draw up changes in the constitution and electoral law . |
| 10 | At harvest time , a lot of families up here visit relatives to help get the crops in , so it 's hard to keep up continuity in the group . ’ |
| 11 | Among the " quick fix " solutions which have been proposed to counter global warming are : placing thousand of large mirrors in space to reflect sunlight ; making aircraft engines less efficient so that soot builds up in the stratosphere , with similar effect ; dumping iron filings into the oceans to stimulate the growth of plankton , which absorbs carbon dioxide ; using lasers to break up chlorofluorocarbons in the atmosphere ; and firing a million tons of dust into the upper atmosphere , also with a view to reflecting solar radiation . |
| 12 | WordStar makes it easy for you to add up numbers in a document . |
| 13 | As the Cheshires sped away , soldiers in one of the Land Rovers leaped out at a road block to take up positions in a ditch and provide covering fire with their SA80 automatic rifles . |
| 14 | The continuing Gulf crisis was characterized during September by ( i ) the progressive strengthening of the military position of the multinational anti-Iraq coalition , as forces arrived to take up positions in the region and further commitments were made ; ( ii ) the tightening of the economic embargo , extended to include interdiction of air traffic from Sept. 25 ; and ( iii ) the growing perception on the diplomatic front that a negotiated solution might only be achievable in the context of a wider consideration of conflicts in the region . |
| 15 | In this novel , the genteel young heroine from the south of England , Margaret , is compelled by her father 's reduced circumstances to take up residence in a city called Milton , closely based on Manchester , and comes into social contact with a local mill-owner called Thornton . |
| 16 | Bears became extinct in the Austrian Alps over a hundred years , but in the 1970s a male bear from Yugoslavia wandered across the border to take up residence in the southeast province of Styria . |
| 17 | The scientist who threatens to blow up London in the film John Boulting directed for Korda , Seven Days to Noon ( 1950 ) , does so in order that the whole world will be made aware of how a scientific dream had been corrupted . |
| 18 | Encourage ICU staff to follow up patients in the ward |
| 19 | With the heightened security in and around Belfast , the paramilitaries have tried to step up attacks in the rest of Northern Ireland . |
| 20 | One of the region 's biggest hospitals is urging staff and patients to step up security in the face of rising crime . |