Example sentences of "up [art] [noun] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1904 Tansley and William Smith set up the Committee for the Survey and Study of British Vegetation , later known as the British Vegetation Committee . |
| 2 | Professor Khan had been a crucial cog in the great mesh of wheels that made up the whole for the creation of an Iraqi nuclear warhead . |
| 3 | In part two : Heavy going : Weighing up the competition for the Boat Race . |
| 4 | When an engineer calls up the plans for a jet engine , the information in the definition of that object allows the system — automatically and efficiently — to retrieve the plans for all its sub-components . |
| 5 | I can not resist saying that when Japan finally exchanges her peaceful simplicity , her admiration for , and artistic appreciation of , Nature 's beauties , and her contented national life , for the storm stress , and hurry of that feverish existence known to the West , she will have given up the substance for the shadow . |
| 6 | The King of Prussia kept up a desperate defensive campaign against his other main enemies , Austria and Russia ; Britain contributed to this struggle not only by keeping up the army for the defence of Hanover and western Germany but also by supplying money , first as loans and then about £3m. in grants , to keep the Prussian army going . |
| 7 | On the other hand , when she had taken up the carpets for a dance for Algy and filled the house with sixteen-year-old boys from Harrow and Marlborough , she twitched to the thin soprano signals of public-school lust like a dog hearing the squeak of a rat in its sleep . |
| 8 | Jane made up the basket for the bridesmaid from a sweet and innocent mixture of soft pink roses , sweet peas ( the pink and mauve ‘ Painted Lady ’ and the blue ‘ Countess Cadogan ’ ) , small sprays of pink larkspur , pink marguerites and the miniature Victorian gladiolus ‘ The Bride ’ . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , Fielding promised , he would hire the loft or the studio and line up the auditioning for the bit parts — the waiters , the dancers , the gangsters . |
| 10 | But the suggestion is that he was the black sheep , because he gave up the throne for a woman . |
| 11 | After all , a round in the mid-60s might well bring him well up the field for a charge on the final two days . |
| 12 | It opens up the possibility for a male to come along and displace or remove the sperm stored from a previous mating . |
| 13 | If I may be allowed a topical rugby metaphor , we had , so to speak lined up the ball for a conversion . |
| 14 | After some discussion we decided to hold up the cheque for a day or two instead of refusing it , while I made some informal inquiries . |
| 15 | Believing that artisans should be well housed , his last initiative was to set up the Society for the Promotion of Industrial Villages in 1884 . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've given up the cello for the moment , ’ said Finch . |
| 17 | This might have shored up the dollar for a time had the US balance of payments improved as expected . |
| 18 | ‘ Mr Shah , who put up the money for the school , is a Wimbledon Dharjee . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , she did put up the money for the construction of Roshanara Bagh , a pleasure garden on the far outskirts of Shahjehanabad . |
| 20 | ‘ Whoever put up the money for the scheme has made a fortune . |
| 21 | Then , feeling utterly defeated , she went mechanically through the routine of locking up the cottage for the night and plodded upstairs . |
| 22 | The Old Stager summed up the problem for the benefit of the nine team members within earshot . |
| 23 | Mr Robinson took up the case for a majority of the Castlereagh firemen who left the Fire Service because they were not prepared to uproot their families and move to Carryduff . |
| 24 | This weekend , buoyed by the growing Liberal Democrat support and the trend to a hung Parliament in the most recent opinion polls , he is moving on to the next stage : cranking up the case for a coalition . |
| 25 | Ian Rush , who enjoyed Rosenthal 's attacking company after his frustrating lone furrow against Spartak Moscow , summed up the case for the Israeli 's defence when he said : ‘ Sometimes I do n't think Ronny knows what he 's doing so defenders certainly are n't going to know . ’ |
| 26 | But perhaps this best sums up the case for the prosecution . |
| 27 | HOLLYWOOD heart-throb Tom Cruise picked up the bill for a group of students he saw trying to impress their girlfriends . |
| 28 | Now , in addition to that , and I do n't know if this is the source of the confusion , we 've also made provision in the ninety four five budget for another er camera site operation , except that it 's a lower figure because that does n't actually include the camera because we made it clear that as a result of the decision last time here we did n't want to create a , a permanent precedent that this committee always picked up the bill for the camera . |
| 29 | Paid up the insurance for the car , yeah ? |
| 30 | On receiving confirmation of his decision from the commander , the pilot made a turn to the left and lined up the aircraft for an approach to the selected field . |