Example sentences of "up [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old man looked up the staircase in front of them . |
| 2 | The ‘ specially urgent need to take whatever steps were immediately possible to improve the safety testing of drugs ’ in the light of the thalidomide disaster led the Joint Sub-Committee on Safety of Drugs to set up the Committee on Safety of Drugs in 1963 . |
| 3 | And if a strange person is walking up the driveway with intention of breaking in at least somebody may notice it . |
| 4 | As a result , it looks as though any rethink of this weekend goes up the spout in favour of the ghastliness of paper for the beastly bureaucrats . |
| 5 | Taking up the wager on behalf of ADT Healthquest , Coe 's idea to encourage people to develop more active and healthy lifestyles seemed , he said , an obvious extension . |
| 6 | A combined force of commandos got there just in time and blew the base to smithereens , finally blowing up the overhang on top of the smoking remains . |
| 7 | Having lost the Conservative party leadership contest to John Major he took up the position of President of the Board of Trade after the last election … |
| 8 | Mr Foster , who took up the issue on behalf of farmers and operators , said : ‘ I am deeply disappointed that the Intervention Board has not accepted the strong arguments put forward in favour of the facility . ’ |
| 9 | Her aim was simple ; to head up the coast under cover of the bushes and seek out the first help she could . |
| 10 | The Route : A thin crack running straight up the pass to left of the obvious ‘ rainbow ’ feature . |
| 11 | The Department of Transport should ‘ take immediate steps to speed up the rate of progress of road maintenance research , ’ the MPs said . |
| 12 | The chairman of the Tidy Up Middlesbrough Public Action Campaign helped children from Caldicotes School , Spencerbeck , to spruce up the area as part of Environment Week . |
| 13 | Our perception of spermatozoa was changed forever by Woody Allen 's impersonation of one in Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex , and University of Pennsylvania are giving substance to his fantasies , putting the poor little tadpoles through an arduous obstacle course to step up the process of survival of the fittest : according to Prodigy Services Co , the mad scientists have created a new class of silicon chip that can be used for analyzing sperm samples and providing a venue for fertilisation ; the technology uses microscopic obstacle courses inside a silicon wafer to weed out unhealthy sperm , and has been used successfully to fertilise a mouse egg ; the chips are etched with a virtual theme park of twisting channels , forests of columns , and other features designed to ensure only the strongest of sperm reach their goal , with some passages so small that only a single cell can pass ; the researchers have not yet applied for approval to test human fertilisation using the chip , but say that could happen within the next 12 months — Brave New World , or the embodiment of virtual sex . |
| 14 | Simon strode over to the table and picked up the parchment on top of the pile . |
| 15 | Yes , let's not open up the debate about chairmanship of meetings er , got a couple more people |
| 16 | In the end he tore up the agreement in front of me . |
| 17 | However , in 1855 he took up the post of professor of drawing at King 's College , London , which he combined with book illustration . |
| 18 | Returning to England , he took up the post of sub-warden of Toynbee Hall , the universities ' settlement in the East End of London , 1920–9 , serving also as a co-opted member of the London County Council education committee , 1925–31 . |
| 19 | Sturt was just off to Adelaide with his family to take up the post of Surveyor-General of South Australia , and it was a matter of great good fortune that the two met at all . |
| 20 | It was decided to set up the PMIS as part of an " on-line " system ( directly connected to the computer ) using a computer terminal for input and output . |
| 21 | " It was one of my bitterest hours to see our leader , only just home , having to throw up the sponge in front of the men he lived for " . |
| 22 | The words addressed to Titius are therefore construed as setting up a trust in favour of others ; and the others happen to be the coheirs who stand to benefit from the resulting reduction in the share intended to fall to Titius . |
| 23 | You 're all right if you can play a musical instrument one o' these one-string fiddles , Jew 's harp , ham-bone , play the comb , or one o' these sewing-machines ( gesticulates with his hands , pedals with his feet ) ; you can stick up a board in front of you saying ‘ Ex-Service Man ’ , ‘ Hero ’ , put on a row of medals — an' you can go into any of these back streets and nobody 'll stop you . |
| 24 | Today the pensioners still do not know if they are to get any of their money but the lawyers and accountants sorting out Maxwell 's affairs have so far run up a bill in excess of £30 million . |
| 25 | The Republic also pointed the way to the future in its attempts to regulate English trade in a way that would help English shipping though its efforts were not immediately successful ; the monarchy took the same legislative approach , but was able to make its laws effective and on this basis set up a system of control of trade in the empire that survived until the middle of the nineteenth century . |
| 26 | ‘ I could n't have lived with myself if I had n't put up a fight on behalf of the men . ’ |
| 27 | So one tries to build up a kind of agenda of all the things that different people involved think might be important , before one tries to produce a plan as to how one 's going to , to work . |
| 28 | So one tries to build up a kind of agenda of all the things that different people involved think might be important before one tries to produce a plan as to how one 's going to work , and even then there may be a chance for you actually to discuss the plan with various people as well . |
| 29 | A lava flow originating on land can advance considerable distances into the sea in this way , building up a kind of delta of fragmental material on to which the flow proper can advance . |
| 30 | Mr McWhirter had shuffled in , looking like a morose vagrant , some ten minutes late , and had taken up a position in front of the fire . |