Example sentences of "up [art] [noun] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The abrupt cut can be softened by a lap dissolve , originally done by gradually closing down the iris on the lens ( a fade-out ) , winding back the film and then opening up the iris for the same length of time and film ( a fade-in ) . |
| 2 | Indeed those who drew up the blue-print for the Common Market in the 1956 Spaak Report sought to make available to Europeans those advantages so long enjoyed by US manufacturers in the USA 's single market . |
| 3 | Under preparation for three years , the bill set up the framework for the legal operation of private radio and television stations and for an independent public broadcasting system . |
| 4 | There was the trust deed of the church school , St Benet 's , founded in 1860 and , of more recent date , a copy of a well-phrased vituperative complaint to the Archdeacon from the People 's Warden about Marr 's digging up the Church for the central heating . |
| 5 | In 1985 , it set up the Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian and Gay Issues . |
| 6 | At the rate things were going Meredith could swallow up the budget for the entire year before the season was a quarter way through . |
| 7 | It is becoming a tradition in our family ( extended by friends ) to do a fairly long walk between Christmas and the New Year , to walk off some of the effects of the turkey and tone up the system for the usual see-the-New- Year-in celebrations . |
| 8 | I objected in Committee and in the House tonight to his implication — it was not stated in so many words — that the £780 million would be paid locally by the other people in the area picking up the bill for the single-person households . |
| 9 | It is easy to see why : the track is only six lanes wide so that the crowd is closer to the action than usual , and the organizers have the knack of building up the anticipation for the big event so that once it gets under way , emotion bubbles over . |
| 10 | The new conductor , Thelma Strange , picking up the baton for the first time , is his former pupil and so is new accompanist Kathryn Clarke . |
| 11 | It was to take a year and a half to build up the momentum for the Hot Autumn . |
| 12 | Add up the points for the 9 questions : |
| 13 | In April 1945 , Truman 's government played host to representatives from 50 countries at San Francisco who had met to draw up the Charter for the United Nations . |
| 14 | It stokes up the pressure for the two teams ' clash in East Anglia on 5 April . |
| 15 | He had saved up the site for the right feeling . |
| 16 | As our economy has declined as our recession has turned to a slump increasingly it is the low-paid , the sick , the disabled and the unemployed who have been forced to pick up the tab for the Tory policy failure . |
| 17 | The interval between the two sets was the time needed to set up the instrument for the lower illumination passing through the filter , about twenty minutes . |
| 18 | If you were to draw up the specification for the ideal material for electronic engineering , I guess it would be something combining the properties of the perfect conductor , the perfect insulator and the ideal semiconductor . |
| 19 | Labour 's positive agenda opens up the prospect for the first time since we joined the Community in 1973 of Britain participating constructively in the European Community . |
| 20 | Within these coastal poleniers an enormous amount of sea ice could form and then is removed to the north dumping enormous amounts of salt into the shelf water making it very dense and setting up the stage for the deep sinking associated with Antarctic . |
| 21 | His role has been rather like that of a stand-up comic warming up the audience for the main event . |
| 22 | But it 's only just over two and a half years since the village Post Office and shop put up the shutters for the last time . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , a second pressure pad has already taken up the tension for the next length of rods . |
| 24 | NICK FARR-JONES picked up a ball for the first time in three months and reminded everyone that he is the world 's best scrum-half . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , on Aug. 24 Gorbachev set up a committee for the interim management of the economy , headed by Silayev with three reformers as his deputies — Arkady Volsky , head of the Scientific Industrial Union , Yuri Luzhkov from Moscow 's city soviet , and Yavlinsky . |
| 26 | However , if it really is I will take up a collection for the medical fees . |
| 27 | In response to his instructions , the maid pulled up a chair for the little girl , and Artemis carefully sat on the edge of it , her legs still too short to reach the floor . |
| 28 | Mind yer , Billy 's bin on about openin' up a gymnasium for the young lads around 'ere . |
| 29 | To get as close as possible to sea-dwelling fauna ( and perhaps pick up a crustacean for the lunchtable ) , take a short course in diving and snorkelling . |
| 30 | Pundits reckon that Rocco Forte — boss of the Little Chef to Happy Eater chain — could be lining up a takeover for the prestigious London group and the price of the Savoy ‘ A ’ shares rocketed from 633p to 710p , before closing at £7 . |