Example sentences of "be [to-vb] up a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aim of these talks will be to set up a dialogue between Palestinians and Israelis in Cairo on elections in the occupied territories . |
| 2 | The aim of these talks will be to set up a dialogue between Palestinians and Israelis in Cairo on elections in the occupied territories . |
| 3 | In some quarters it was suggested that the best solution would be to set up a government of ‘ national trustees ’ , headed by McKenna , who had deserted politics for banking and had not sat in ; Parliament since 1918 . |
| 4 | Mr. Duggan will still be tutoring in French from Kingsley Centre and one of his plans could be to set up a shop for Christian books , publications and cards in the Alton area . |
| 5 | He says the plan will be to open up a number of railway lines and connect local communities and they 'll make good family cycling ; not the steep gradients mountain bikers like , but nice gradients related to the old gradients of the railway lines . |
| 6 | The next step will be to draw up a set of criteria which personnel users new to computing , or the experienced user representing their interests , can use to make a sensible choice . |
| 7 | One way would be to hold up a pencil at arm 's length and measure their relative sizes as an artist might . |
| 8 | Could it be supposed that it would be more impossible for God to raise up a body at Resurrection , if needs be , out of elementary particles , which had been liberated by burning , than it would be to raise up a body from dust ? ’ |
| 9 | Conversely , if a French broker were to set up a branch in London and was subject to those more relaxed French rules , the branch would equally be at a competitive advantage as against UK firms . |
| 10 | The usual aim is to carve up a constituency in such a way that first-preferences will be spread evenly between candidates whose chances of election are judged to be good . |
| 11 | The result is to connect up a network of contracts by a uniform set of rules and thus give them multilateral force . |
| 12 | Mazda is to set up a centre in Belgium to train staff in sales and after-sales service . |
| 13 | Second , the effect of the laws of rhythm in poetry is to set up a tension between two different principles of word combination : syntax , which determines it in ordinary language , and rhythm , which constitutes a second determining principle in poetry . |
| 14 | Another aim of the workshop is to set up a group of media trainers and professionals in eastern and southern Africa . |
| 15 | Head west to reach the head of a stream , Twrch Fechan , where the idea is to pick up a right of way travelling south-east to return to the walk starting point . |
| 16 | The second , and the one usually chosen by the authors , is to grow up a mixture of different species in variable numbers until they show signs of pairing and wanting to breed . |
| 17 | The first thing to be done is to draw up a list of such works to be read in school . " |
| 18 | The best way to compare papers is to mix up a batch of wash colour and apply it similarly to different sheets of watercolour paper ( Not surface ) , as I 've done here . |
| 19 | One way to reduce the problem of waiting for elusive components to arrive is to build up a stock of components . |
| 20 | Broadly speaking , the assessors , divided into MPs , industrialists , and senior party volunteers do not mark a score card ; their task is to build up a profile of the applicants ' intellectual and practical potential . |
| 21 | The immediate response of the Government was to set up a committee of inquiry under Lord Justice Woolf to examine the events and the underlying causes . |
| 22 | There were also teachers in the sample who were grappling with several complex long-term and short-term schedules and forecasts at a time , and others whose only apparent work plan was to set up a succession of ad hoc activities with little long-term coherence or progression . |
| 23 | David tells about his night-time television viewing being interrupted by a prompting to pray ; then of several trips to New York all with no clear understanding that he was to set up a programme for those involved in drug abuse . |
| 24 | Their starting point was to set up a model in which there were no opportunities for arbitrage by specifying an equality between those investors taking their returns solely in terms of capital gains by selling before the share went ex-dividend , and those who sold after the share went ex-dividend and thus collected their return in capital gains and dividends : where . |
| 25 | The first move was to set up a meet with Jo . |
| 26 | The first was to draw up a structure of government which could serve to protect the people from government , from the danger of a tyranny of the majority in the legislature ; but the second aim was to protect the people from themselves . |
| 27 | Once the decision had been taken , no time was wasted in defining the areas of the city to be dealt with and in actually measuring the ground , for Haussmann 's first task was to draw up a plan of Paris measured to an exact scale . |
| 28 | His book entitled The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy avoids a chronological sequence , since his plan of arrangement was to build up a mosaic of characteristic material . |
| 29 | However , his first involvement was to break up a scuffle between Impey and Burrows , which brought Graeme Souness running onto the pitch to complain to the linesman — strange behaviour from a manager who , last month , was given a five-match touchline ban by UEFA . |