Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] [verb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did , however , recommend the immediate closure of the two oldest of Sosnovy-Bor 's four reactors , and suggested that nearby Western states should make up the energy shortfall to enable this to take place . |
| 2 | Therefore , although the strength of a bone depends on the area of its cross section , the legs must hold up a body increasing in weight by the cube of its length . |
| 3 | Two Irish goals would bring up the century in Charlton 's seven-year reign , during which he has lost only nine of 69 full internationals . |
| 4 | Rival candidates will work up a lather over racial tensions , law and order , and the latest agenda of the gay-rights movement for the city 's schools . |
| 5 | In the main event the winners will pick up a cheque for £ while the runners-up will receive £250 . |
| 6 | A visit to Helmsley town and castle ( where walkers can take up the Cleveland Way long-distance footpath ) , with a stop-off at Rievaulx Abbey , makes for an enjoyable outing . |
| 7 | As has been noted before , pictures can break up the text , provide ‘ landmarks ’ for the struggling reader , and help in making mental pictures . |
| 8 | Occasionally a book has almost achieved immortality , like John Ruskin 's Stones of Venice , but even more modest books can call up the spirit of a place ; and a private letter may illuminate both a person and a work of art . |
| 9 | That is why it is so important that , as one of the conclusions of the Maastricht settlement , it was agreed that the 12 countries should set up an organisation loosely known as Europol whose first job would be to set up a Europeanwide drugs intelligence unit among the Twelve , which should lead to a greater level of co-operation with our continental partners to stop Ecstasy and other drugs coming into the country . |
| 10 | Congress and state regulators could speed up the construction of pipelines . |
| 11 | A mind could not be read any more reliably than keys could give up the name of a killer . |
| 12 | Beyond the cathedral and the little churches , visitors can walk up the mountainside to the tiny , medieval village of Scala . |
| 13 | How companies can set up a group pension scheme for their employees . |
| 14 | How groups of directors can set up a pension scheme for themselves . |
| 15 | This was the European Court 's view of the requirement of the West German Insurance Supervision Law to the effect that foreign insurance undertakings must set up an establishment in West Germany and ‘ keep available there all the commercial documents relating to that establishment ’ , for which separate accounts must be kept . |
| 16 | With November came the herring season and the boats would sail up the coast to Torbay , then back around Bigbury Bay and Plymouth , although a few boats continued to fish for pilchards from Looe throughout the Winter . |
| 17 | Aids will pick up every sound around , not just speech , so that the wearer will have a constant wash of muddled noise in his or her ear — not very comfortable ! |
| 18 | Forestry workers will clear up the mess made by this latest incident ; relieved that the fire did n't spread to the trees , but worried that the next one might . |
| 19 | The survey ( Survey of Financial Consolidation Systems 1991 ) revealed that organisations can speed up the collection of financial data from their subsidiaries by up to 44% using automatic data capture techniques . |
| 20 | A trip to Brussels to meet the responsible officials can turn up a mine of information . |
| 21 | Some individuals can take up the suggestions of the hypnotist to the extent of becoming deaf or blind or unable to smell ; they may withstand pain without a murmur , re-experience being a six-year old , or even forget everything that happened , after hypnosis , until given a prearranged ‘ release ’ signal . |
| 22 | Higher rate taxpayers must top up the tax to 40 per cent . |
| 23 | Such was the popularity of film and such was the reforming zeal of that first decade or so of the twentieth century that there must have been every possibility that other agencies would take up the chance of producing , distributing , and exhibiting films in their own halls . |
| 24 | Oh yes yeah the skippers , the skippers would go up the town cos every time a ship used to come in they got , they got to take the their papers up to the agent , what the papers were I do n't really know might be a manifest or something like that , what they used to do I mean then you had erm and you had different agents now there 's more agents than ever now . |
| 25 | It is possible for the future to appear in the subordinate clause as well : The firm will expand if the investors will put up the money , although the normal pattern is the future tense in the main clause , followed by the present tense in the subordinate one . |
| 26 | With the league regionalised over Winter it 's almost certain that Clwyd , Gwynedd and Powys teams will prop up the table for a couple of months . |
| 27 | Thus the electrons and positrons will set up a kind of sonic boom , or shock wave , in the electromagnetic field . |
| 28 | The willingness of AIS to listen to Skymaster users about the direction of the service is welcome , and one hopes that the customers will take up the challenge . |
| 29 | Where they are still organized separately from social services , education welfare officers can sum up an area 's state of mind as well as help — or question — individual families , at least up to the time when centralized social work services are cut back . |
| 30 | ‘ What she means , ’ Ruth said pertly when Mrs Longhill had left the kitchen , ‘ is that her servants must keep up the standards ! ’ |