Example sentences of "up the [adj] [noun] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other four winning projects are : Community Education , Whitechapel Art Gallery , London , an educational programme under the direction of Lucy Dawe Lane involving over 200 artists living in the East End of London , ( the award will be used to set up after-school activities for local Bengali children and their families ) ; Art in Albany Prison , Isle of Wight , where Colin Riches has set up the first art centre in a maximum security jail , providing full-time employment and art education for eighteen long-term prisoners , ( Colin Riches will use his award to carry out further researches into the benefits of art in prisons ) ; Art Trust , Homerton Hospital , London , where the inspiration of surgeon William Shand has covered the bare walls and public spaces of the new building with specially-commissioned pictures and sculpture , ( the award will be used to commission a major sculpture for the principal courtyard ; and The Fan Museum , Greenwich , London , the first museum of fans , set up by Dicky and Helen Alexander who have donated their collection of 2,000 fans to the museum , ( the award will be used to provide proper storage facilities for the collection ) . |
| 2 | This was a short-lived club , but important if only for the fact that it drew up the first Breed Standard in 1901 . |
| 3 | On Feb. 7 riot police in Cairo outnumbered and forcibly broke up the first protest march against the war by opposition leaders and 50 supporters . |
| 4 | When John Moores set up the first Littlewoods catalogue in 1932 , housewives ' shopping clubs were all the rage . |
| 5 | In 1988 , some time before the USSR began to crumble , Martyn Assirati set up the Russian Wine Company in London and travelled east to see what he could find . |
| 6 | Leaving Fraser to deal with the occupants of the vaulted basement chambers Douglas and Ramsay raced up the twisting turnpike stairway to the first floor , where would be the great hall , followed by fifty or so mosstroopers . |
| 7 | Connecting up the pre-assembled pipe work to the pump and filter completes the job , leaving just the final tasks of adding coping and paving stones . |
| 8 | Although the defection of Clarence , in particular , can only have enhanced Richard 's standing in the king 's eyes , the real contribution of the rebels to Gloucester 's advancement lay in opening up the existing power structure by removing several of Edward 's closest supporters . |
| 9 | Although the defection of Clarence , in particular , can only have enhanced Richard 's standing in the king 's eyes , the real contribution of the rebels to Gloucester 's advancement lay in opening up the existing power structure by removing several of Edward 's closest supporters . |
| 10 | But by the time I had turned off the road from Bellingham at Kielder village and driven up the bumpy Forest Drive to East Kielder Farm , I was longing for the sight of something other than water and trees . |
| 11 | The silver ball sped up the slight incline lighting up the Bakelite mushrooms as it struck them , ricocheting back and forwards , up and down , before vanishing down the hole in the corner . |
| 12 | The response has been to bolster up the procedural checks attendant upon the disbursement of such benefits . |
| 13 | First-time guests peered up the dark oak staircase to the gallery murmuring , ‘ Mrs Danvers , ’ under their breath . |
| 14 | John Rose set up the famous porcelain factory at Coalport in 1785 , and it became noted for the fine quality of its decoration and lavish gilding . |
| 15 | The wrangle over airline stakes has already forced British Airways to rethink its plans , and the much wider argument over farm policies is still holding up the long-delayed Uruguay round of GATT talks on the further liberalisation of international trade . |
| 16 | Hill sums up the 1992 housing market in one word — ‘ weird ’ . |
| 17 | The stockmarket rally that started in the last quarter of 1992 pushed up the composite share index from a low point of 459 on August 21st to 678 at the end of the year , up 11% from 12 months earlier . |
| 18 | Other whaling nations recognised the destruction of whale stocks and set up the International Whaling Commission in 1946 to control international whaling , Just when Japan was developing her whaling industry to full commercial efficiency . |
| 19 | To a large extent the prison numbers crisis , and many of the problems that are associated with it , are the unintended outcome of a series of uncoordinated decisions taken , independently , by the various institutions that make up the criminal justice system in England and Wales . |
| 20 | ‘ Last time I went ter the pictures it was up the Grand picture 'ouse in Grange Road . |
| 21 | He built up the Agricultural Training School of Pyinmana , spoke Burmese like a Burman , and was an out-and-out evangelist . |
| 22 | Managing director , George Sneddon heads up the regional management team of 24 UK staff who are supported by 123 Omani , Indian and Sri Lankan staff and a labour force of 1500 men . |
| 23 | I led up the awkward flake crack to a sitting stance on the Pedestal — a huge , flat topped flake stuck to the face — and called up the big guns . |
| 24 | Photographers arrive at improbably early hours to capture the effect of the soft morning light , film crews struggle up the narrow village street with quantities of paraphernalia , Americans lean over the fence with their cameras and tell their friends to visit too . |
| 25 | In February 1922 , Hitler told his SA that the ‘ Jewish Question ’ was the only thing that mattered , and a few months later he summed up the entire Party Programme in the one point : that no Jew could be a ‘ people 's comrade ’ . |
| 26 | The ghost plot — Swayze gets killed , and before he can go off to heaven he has to save his girlfriend Demi Moore from the bad guys — is really just a gimmick , there to dress up the standard Swayze package with a few special effects and an impossibly sentimental ending . |
| 27 | Scott extended the scope of prisoners ' employment , established the first open prison camp , and set up the Imperial Training School for prison officers at Wakefield , a pioneer effort in public-service training . |
| 28 | With Simon Smith newly-installed on the drum stool , they kept up the relentless touring pace in 1988 and found themselves playing sizeable venues like London 's Town And Country Club . |
| 29 | Assuming that you wish to become one of the select few and possess a suitable radio , you should set up the collective pitch travel in a manner which gives a mirror image of the normal travel when the invert switch is operated . |
| 30 | He also stresses that the new female values encouraged marriage for love rather than for prudential considerations , and maintains that women 's increasing search for sexual fulfilment pushed up the general fertility rate of lower-class marriages in the nineteenth century . |