Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] up [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert Aaron , of Low Coniscliffe , has applied to the council for permission to set up a portable building in his garden for village events . |
| 2 | In between , Strachan showed his alertness again , running Nigel Worthington and John Harkes ragged in the first seconds after half-time to set up a simple header for Lee Chapman . |
| 3 | Those who are not may choose the more attractive route , going north to Koblenz , turning right to follow the Rhine , turning left about 8km ( 5 miles ) after Kaiserstuhl to pick up the same road through Jestetten . |
| 4 | He had no idea what an effort it had been for Topaz to keep up the easy flow of chatter . |
| 5 | With rucksacks on their shoulders and clutching their weapons , the group of desperadoes trudged up the main coast road , clearly silhouetted by the headlamps of passing enemy traffic . |
| 6 | The Act of Union stirred up the latent nationalism even of non-Jacobite Scots . |
| 7 | Lionello Venturi considered lives of artists made up a basic category of art criticism , buttressing his opinion with accounts of writings by Vasari and others . |
| 8 | All this of course took up a great deal of time and delayed the completion of Robyn 's thesis on the nineteenth-century industrial novel , which had to be constantly revised to take the new theories into account . |
| 9 | ‘ And this heap of fur taking up the warmest spot is Blue . |
| 10 | Lastly , there are a number of differences between groups of institutions making up the monetary sector . |
| 11 | Indeed , " the main theme " of the book is the argument that the triangular pattern of cooperation between government and the two sides of industry built up a new form of harmony which lasted until the mid-sixties and led to the trade unions and employers ' associations being elevated to a new sort of status so that they became " governing institutions " sharing some of the political power and attributes of the state itself . |
| 12 | The Society of Authors set up a powerful lobby , which convinced a Parliamentary Committee that the common law of obscene libel should be replaced by a modern statute which afforded some protection to meritorious literature . |
| 13 | The volume of data making up a single MSS image places some restrictions on its use . |
| 14 | The establishment of Georgia completed the process of coastal settlement , and it was close enough to the Spanish colony of Florida to open up a new area of conflict . |
| 15 | The FAO 's breed preservation meetings began in 1966 and in 1968 the ZSL and the Royal Agricultural Society of England set up a working party to consider the problem of Britain 's vanishing breeds . |
| 16 | A sudden explosion of brightness lit up the whole sky . |
| 17 | Er you need to have a much more all round variety of exercise to build up the different things . |
| 18 | In it they asserted quite clearly that permitting divorce would certainly affect the stability of all Irish marriages because it rendered every Irish marriage dissoluble : ‘ It is as though the legal availability of divorce builds up a social pressure which , for large numbers of people , becomes stronger than moral or religious resistance ’ ( abridged version , Irish Times , 14 May 1986 ) . |
| 19 | Often we have only fragments of bones to build up a mental picture of the final complete skeleton . |
| 20 | Contrary to one popular view , it is not the case that at the Kalmar plant each group of workers builds up a complete car from a box of component parts . |
| 21 | He makes the point that the arrival of these southerners ( and westerners ) has enabled the University of Ulster to push up the minimum entry grades for some courses . |
| 22 | With his latest movie , Henry & June , Philip Kaufman slightly varies this mix of spices to serve up a soft-focus hash of Sex and Literature in Paris , 1931 . |
| 23 | The idea of race opened up a few humorous possibilities . |
| 24 | In the case of Dataease setting up the initial forms is easy , even quite complex forms with many relationships can be set up very quickly . |
| 25 | Compare two recollections : Delicate motes of movement tiptoeing up the curving sabre-slash of Serenity Crack in Yosemite . |
| 26 | And as six-month-old Farrah arrived back from Ireland with mum Bernadette and dad Shane , throngs of neighbours sent up a deafening cheer . |
| 27 | Somehow at the sight of him all her anger seemed to vanish like the wisps of smoke wreathing up the great chimney near by . |
| 28 | In 1988 the Long-term Credit Bank of Japan set up a joint investment advisory company with Foreign & Colonial Management . |
| 29 | The knot of demonstrators summoned up a ragged cry and waved their tattered banners , but whether it was the sight of Edwina Currie or of Virginia Bottomley was not immediately evident . |
| 30 | Lunda , who had held the office for under 11 months , said he was stepping down " to allow the head of state to set up an enlarged transitional government " . |