Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [verb] up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Western Europe legislators have ceded sweeping powers to make detailed regulations to central government executives , allowing them in effect to write up the law ‘ as they go along ’ in a discretionary way . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , the woman in question picked up the piece of paper with her name and address on along with all the Sanctuary 's records , and has not been seen since . |
| 3 | Dr. Steve Barnett resigned his GEC research fellowship in Engineering to take up a lectureship at King 's College , London . |
| 4 | She was standing in the wings , leaning against a post that supported a wooden framework , which in turn held up a number of backcloths . |
| 5 | If we can now persuade more birds to come and perch on top of the first lot we can in principle build up the wire to any thickness we choose . |
| 6 | The election was precipitated by the resignation of William H. Gray in order to take up a job with the United Negro College Fund . |
| 7 | He succeeds Seru Verebalavu who resigned in order to take up the position of the region 's Coordinator as part of WACC 's Animation Programme ( see Action number 160 ) . |
| 8 | He became a Swedish citizen in 1937 in order to take up the offer of teaching posts in the Royal Opera School and the Music High School ( later renamed the Royal Academy of Music ) , Stockholm , where he had great influence on a generation of singers , including Birgit Nilsson and Jussi Björling , whom he taught privately . |
| 9 | To interpret is to impoverish , to deplete the world — in order to set up a shadow of ‘ meanings ’ ’ . |
| 10 | Fuchs wanted to solve his finance problems by selling off two Picassos in order to set up an endowment fund : the attempt was foiled although it resulted in a healthy debate about de-accessioning in Dutch museums . |
| 11 | Thus the descriptions of a language which are the output of a first-order application of linguistic theory represent only an inventory from which a selection must be made in order to draw up the syllabus for any particular teaching operation . |
| 12 | Michael Jones , the Trust 's chief executive , said : ‘ Staff are gasping for a decision on this and we need to do it urgently in order to drive up the hospital 's performance and get costs down . ’ |
| 13 | This consists in part of literally ‘ moving mountains ’ in order to fill up the water meadow . |
| 14 | Record companies generally send these out some time before an event or the release of a product in order to whip up a bit of advance interest from the press . |
| 15 | At first glance , it would seem logical to add as much salt and glucose to the solution as possible in order to speed up the rehydration process . |
| 16 | About 1881 he tried a change of policy by having some mapping done on the one-inch scale in order to speed up the surveying . |
| 17 | While she , Paige , had to duck and dive , in fruitless attempts to shake a limpet-like pursuit in order to keep up the chase . |
| 18 | Rediagramming of units , and the retention of old DMUs for many years longer than originally planned in order to keep up the fleet size to meet this new demand , have enabled the worst of the overcrowding to be contained , though there are at the time of writing ( 1989 ) stili several tight spots to be dealt with in certain areas at peak times . |
| 19 | For each of those case types a treatment pattern was identified and costs were applied in order to build up a treatment cost for the typical patient . |
| 20 | As we have seen , this involves a considerable sorting of data in order to build up a picture of the site — to see , for example , what buildings existed there , and at what periods . |
| 21 | Many vice-chancellors believed that the universities were being run down ‘ in order to build up the state system of higher education of colleges and polytechnics , headed by the Council for National Academic Awards ’ . |
| 22 | This advantage was , however , more than offset by the fact that those senior Allied officers and statesmen who had advocated the invasion of Turkey , in order to step up the pressure on the Central Powers in the Middle East and so save lives in the war of attrition in France , had lost the argument . |
| 23 | Even looking around the kitchen in order to make up the shopping lists is a task involving observation , forward thinking and memory . |
| 24 | But in order to make up an army we must not destroy the nation ; it would be destruction to a nation if it were deprived of its best elements . |
| 25 | London papers in fact ate up the scandal , writing that the New York socialists would ‘ nevermore import a professional agitator from the effete monarchies of Europe . |
| 26 | They 'd done it in Gaelic to cover up the vulgarity . |
| 27 | If she was put into skischool for half a day then one adult had to forgo any skiing for that period , since after delivering the child to the skischool meeting place in the centre of the village the travelling time to the slopes was too long to be able to go up , ski and be back down in time to pick up the child from the skischool in the centre of the village again at the end of her lesson . |