Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [verb] up [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And bizarrely , there 's no function for opening up an empty budget planner ; you have to save the example planner under a different name and delete all the data from it . |
| 2 | And it says The Tory government which must which must take responsibility for setting up a rapacious duopoly of generating companies . |
| 3 | be appointed with responsibility for setting up the district-wide programme . |
| 4 | England conceded two goals in the last quarter of an hour after building up a 3–1 lead . |
| 5 | One widely used criterion for dividing up the cerebral cortex is the organization of inputs from the thalamus . |
| 6 | They came as a lightning surprise to them when two hundred American planes came over the city clearly visible in the cloudless sky , the Italians kept separating in two camps because of fascist and non- fascist fleet ran around frantically trying to get fog machines working , trying to obscure the target but the fog prevented warships in the harbour for putting up an effective anti-aircraft barrage . |
| 7 | As a result the IMS was asked to carry out an initial study and advise on the feasibility of setting up a suitable PMIS for the BAA . |
| 8 | The main aim isto explore the feasibility of setting up an integrated physical and community infrastructure data base . |
| 9 | This , more developed , scheme outlined the much criticized recommendation of setting up an inner Cabinet of five which would carry out the needed programme of economic reform . |
| 10 | One of the defendants had been Ivan " Janez " Jansa , who was now Slovenia 's defence minister and an advocate of setting up a separate Slovene army . |
| 11 | We are fortunate to have been able to offer opportunities to Scottish Amicable staff as a result of setting up the dedicated administration unit . |
| 12 | For this reason also , the company has no intention of setting up a local manufacturing outfit in the UK — the emphasis here will be on sales , marketing , software and support . |
| 13 | So it was a happy coincidence that the Rev Alan Mackenzie at the same Congress was able to announce that he had recently attended a meeting between Sir Keith Joseph , then Secretary of State for Social Services , and representatives of other national voluntary organisations concerned with the deaf and the hard of hearing , where the Minister 's intention of setting up a permanent committee to help and advise him had been discussed . |
| 14 | Database developer Raima Corp , of Bellevue , Washington , is talking to its UK distributor , Systemstar Ltd of Hertford , with the intention of setting up a direct presence in the UK market . |
| 15 | There was talk of setting up a Jewish state in Abyssinia , the Russians offered the Amur basin , as long as the population of the new republic was limited to 100,000 and several Latin American countries declared an interest in farmers who had a start capital of at least £500 . |
| 16 | There 's talk of setting up an advisory board for him to consult . |
| 17 | In 1864 Leslie realized a long-held ambition in setting up a National College of Music to rival the continental conservatoires . |
| 18 | No harm in picking up the extra dough , so long as I was doing my client 's work at the same time . ’ |
| 19 | Whitney joined a select group comprising The Beatles , Queen , Elvis Presley , Cliff Richard and Band Aid in notching up a double success . |
| 20 | The loss from taking up the unsubscribed shares is calculated as the difference between the market price on the last day of the offer and the subscription price , where n is equal to the number of shares taken up by the underwriters , P , i , m ; is the market price on the last day of the offer , P , i , s ; is the subscription price . |
| 21 | The consequence of that is that we 've seen a continuation of road-building schemes which have caused considerable damage to the countryside , devastated communities and have no real hope of soaking up the so-called demand for new roads . |
| 22 | Hoving 's gushings are just as tiresome as his nastiness : his description of warming up the cantankerous Robert Lehman ( estranged from the museum over what the collector believed to be an anti-Semitic slight ) recalls similar scenes in Shirley Temple films , the main difference being that presumably Hoving did n't sit on Lehman 's lap . |
| 23 | The earlier and well-known technique of framing up a loose panel appears to have been sacrificed to the whimsy of fashion . |
| 24 | Emphasising the futility of filling up a large sheet of cartridge paper the size of a drawing board with the object you are drawing , irrespective of its proximity , Sickert insisted on the importance of never sketching the figure and the background separately , and once having gone over the original drawing faintly in outline , to put in the shadows with the side of the point of the pencil . |
| 25 | Here the problem for the Labour leadership is even more difficult for there is no constitutional issue about building up a separate organization within the party . |
| 26 | The police vans had been despatched from headquarters very early that morning and contained the equipment for setting up a temporary incident room . |
| 27 | ‘ Being used as cheap labour to break Alejandro 's ponies , ’ said Luke , taking Perdita 's suitcases from her , ‘ in return for picking up a few tips from the master . ’ |
| 28 | France signed an agreement with China whereby in return for giving up the territorial concessions in the treaty ports , handing over the Yunnan railway , and meeting sundry other Chinese demands , they agreed to withdraw their troops from Indo-China by 15 March . |
| 29 | On the same day a preparatory committee began work towards setting up a Civic Movement , its members comprising leading liberals including federal Foreign Minister Jiri Dienstbier and Deputy Premier Pavel Rychetsky , and the Czech Premier Petr Pithart . |
| 30 | In particular there is concern within the British civil aviation industry about the level of costs being incurred by the CAA , and recovered from industry , in its work towards setting up the European Joint Aviation Authority and associated regulatory functions , particularly in this formative period when the British Authority continues to function as an autonomous body whose charges must also be borne by operators . |