Example sentences of "up [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How might an organization divide up the responsibility for marketing activities between its sub-divisions and head office ? |
| 2 | It was given as an example of how design errors and omissions can push up the cost of road contracts . |
| 3 | Recession is the culprit : it has slashed tax receipts and driven up the cost of unemployment benefits . |
| 4 | Having mopped up the majority of Motif users , IXI is now gunning for Sun Microsystems Inc 's Open Look user base — both installed and new accounts — as its next outlet ( UX No 388 ) , and has hired the advertising guns of Saatchi and Saatchi to try and tease Sun users to X.desktop with its largest advertising campaign to date . |
| 5 | Snell and Millar ( 1987 ) have estimated that about 30 per cent of all families receiving parish relief under the old Poor Law ( prior to 1834 ) were lone mothers ; and Thane ( 1978 ) has pointed out that , throughout the period of the operation of the new Poor Law , women ( often widows or deserted or separated mothers ) made up the majority of adult recipients of relief . |
| 6 | It is also speeding up the installation of cab radios linked to signal boxes , and is adopting major changes in management practice to ensure that the safety measures are properly implemented . |
| 7 | In spite of the Jockey Club 's apparent determination to play down the doping cases and its hushing up the Flash of Straw investigations until now , it does seem that there is a sinister element at large in British horse racing . |
| 8 | Despite its limitations , the project has done something to open up the question of study skills , develop inservice structures and practices , create a core of schools where good practice has been established and from which it might be disseminated , and has clearly improved secondary school library provision through ( amongst other things ) the quality of book selection . |
| 9 | As Claire Hunt observed , Chris Thompson 's Beware the Barmaid 's Smile of 1985 neatly summed up the trend in pub interiors in the 1980 : |
| 10 | And a shock came when , on 12 March , the large picture was sent on its way to Bohemia ; the transport firm in Decin had loaded up the lorry with gas containers from Belgium . |
| 11 | They ran the most influential party journals , drew up the agenda for party conferences and congresses , and spearheaded the internecine struggle in which the parties were involved . |
| 12 | these parties were committed to the continuance of a free market economy by concentrating on combating inflation and a spiralling deficit , speeding up the privatisation of state enterprises , thereby reducing state bureaucracy , and the steady reduction of the trade barriers and import tariffs . |
| 13 | I do not envisage a long-lasting solution to the problem of Yugoslavia that does not take up the issue of minority rights and seek to entrench them , perhaps by international action . |
| 14 | Birkenhead MP Frank Field has taken up the fight of Tranmere residents who feared they were in danger of becoming a ‘ forgotten area . ’ |
| 15 | The EPA also plans to speed up the selection of clean-up strategies and to standardise methods for eliminating toxic waste . |
| 16 | He said one of their main hopes was to tighten up the law on fire precautions in flats . |
| 17 | However , if the crisis has been particularly sharp and the depression of sufficient duration then it is more likely that the total of will increase sufficiently to push up the price of consumer goods . |
| 18 | An enemy searchlight lit the danger and the boat sheered off to beach further up the coast on sand dunes , ‘ a dark outline showing against the sky ’ . |
| 19 | These included speeding up the confinement of government troops and agreeing to an election timetable . |
| 20 | Our unequal arms might well take up the difference in line lengths when flying one way ; but the perverse nature of our natural reactions does n't allow the same correction when flying the other way . |
| 21 | Gresley 's Magnificent A3 Pacific No. 4472 ‘ Flying Scotsman ’ brightens up the season of conker fights and dark evenings with three journeys North , South and West in October . |
| 22 | Esmé Collins , I read , was a well-known Brighton portrait photographer , one of the very first to take up the production of cinema films in eighteen ninety-six . |
| 23 | At this time the idea of simply dividing up the group into product groups was also broadened . |
| 24 | He had drawn up the list of church members and he maintained the other lists too . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , ministers and the NHSME took implementation seriously and kept up the pressure on Health Authorities . |
| 26 | The simple reason for which they failed to make the headlines and fire up the imagination of rugby pundits around the world is that they were blacks and coloureds in an apartheid-ridden South Africa . |
| 27 | A bagged concrete mix is now available which speeds up the erection of fence posts very considerably . |
| 28 | They speed up the circulation of material goods through advertising , which reduces the time between production and consumption . |
| 29 | He picked up the tray of tea things and took them to the kitchen where he glanced at the clock . |
| 30 | Iris picked up the tray of coffee mugs and headed for the kitchen , then stopped short . |