Example sentences of "have [verb] up [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During his search for parts he has built up a colossal spares stock , but as the type has been used by so many air forces around the world and is still in service in places , components are not difficult to obtain — although they can be pricey . |
| 2 | The river has curved round and Odd-Knut has drawn up a few metres from the edge of a very steep drop . |
| 3 | Since the Bingham Report it has set up a special investigations unit and improved staff training . |
| 4 | In Wales the WRFU has set up an international players ' trust fund . |
| 5 | ‘ He has taken up the priestly tasks of his father , ’ she says . |
| 6 | While it was the Today newspaper that focused national attention on the fact that the Princess did not have to travel half way round the world to find clean water , it is the aptly-named CoastGuard that has kept up the high standards of cleanliness for royalty and commoners alike . |
| 7 | If the pension funds and insurance companies had waited they could have picked up the same properties at a far lower price . |
| 8 | Emil , who must have picked up the same signals , spoke with a true leader 's decisiveness . |
| 9 | I much regret that such a new Member of Parliament should have picked up the churlish habits of other Labour Members . |
| 10 | It was all right for her , she did n't have to clean up the sodding confetti . |
| 11 | In making these decisions , people will have to weigh up the relative advantages and disadvantages of the various alternative assets . |
| 12 | But having weighed up the two options , at the end of the article , he concluded : ' … in every language it turns out that almost all the results lie within a relatively short stretch which we may call the sentence … |
| 13 | I may now have an inkling of what has happened to me over the last few years ; I may have lined up a few suspects , even tentatively put my finger on ‘ who done it ’ ; I may have my own private detectives working alongside the regular police , and we may have made an arrest or two , but the file has not been closed . |
| 14 | Here the examiner will probably have divided up the possible marks in his mind among the component parts , and an answer to one part , be it ever so brilliant , can earn only the appropriate total for that part . |
| 15 | Paradoxically the threat to their survival posed by reorganization appears to have gingered up the interested members of the dying Kensington , Chelsea and Westminster area authority . |
| 16 | The police had picked up the red sports car nine miles south of Ashford in Kent . |
| 17 | PEP had set up a Post-war Aims Group even before the war began , and within a week of its outbreak had circulated.a draft report on war aims . |
| 18 | The guttering that she had bodged up a few months previously had come loose again . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've run up a few debts myself , you know ! |
| 20 | He made a likeness of Helen of Troy which convinced all who came to sacrifice there that the Trojan War had been well fought ; and for this famous portrait , Zeuxis had lined up the young women of Croton , and taking an ear from one , the set of chin from another , the legs , the arms and stomach and so forth of others , he had assembled his divine beauty . |
| 21 | During the second half of the sixteenth century , hundreds of medieval sculptures and carved images of saints were destroyed or removed , the colourful wall-paintings which had decorated most churches were whitewashed , stained glass was shattered or taken away , and the rood lofts which had held up the great crucifixes and figures of the Virgin Mary and St John were pulled down . |
| 22 | In order to seal off the source of nutrition it is necessary for the activated lymphocytes to gather round the blood vessels once they have used up the local resources . |
| 23 | You may not be aware that excessive usage of the lifts does in fact cost the company a great deal of money , and in line with our cost-cutting efforts in other areas I have drawn up the following guidelines , which must be strictly adhered to from now on . |
| 24 | In the final analysis , organizations have to weigh up the anticipated benefits of particular media against the costs involved . |
| 25 | Here again organizations have to weigh up the relative gains of this approach against the extra costs . |
| 26 | Besides , he wrote , now that I am at last working on the big glass and have set up the two panels and locked them into their metal frame , notions like success and failure are no longer pertinent , there is only the project and its outcome , project , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , outcome , and words like success and failure can safely be left to others , wrote Harsnet . |
| 27 | The call for a probe follows a letter sent to Sunday Life last week by inmates in the powderkeg jail who have set up the Concerned Prisoners For Justice Committee . |
| 28 | As the current Gogarth guidebook heads towards halfway in its lifespan and a reasonable number of new routes are being climbed , I have rounded up a few corrections and other snippets that are applicable to the existing routes . |
| 29 | ‘ Then if we actually go ahead and build the New Jerusalem , they have to take up the full rights , which would amount to … 2.000.000.000,00 . ’ |
| 30 | Called the Reptilons , these huge , scaly fiends have chained up the human inhabitants ( these by happy coincidence are the blonde bimbos ) . |