Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [verb] up a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Malone absorbed the pressure and against the run of play took up a position inside their opponents 22 . |
| 2 | When the European Communities Act 1972 became law each House of Parliament set up a committee to advise on how scrutiny of European legislation could most effectively take place . |
| 3 | Summerbee struck right on the stroke of half-time to set up a clash with France impressive 3–0 winners over Portugal in the final tomorrow . |
| 4 | This verve , this ambition and Jay 's laid-back curl of desire threw up a picture of Lucy as a B-movie dominatrix — but very , very civilised . |
| 5 | The prehistory of Islay is not easily understood and one must use a great deal of imagination to build up a picture from what has been learnt by Investigation and excavation , bearing in mind that isolated pieces of evidence may be entirely unrepresentative of the normal life of the community . |
| 6 | It requested him " to direct the Board of Education to set up an inquiry into the present state of the education of the deaf or to direct that a combined system of oral and manual instruction should be adopted in the schools for the deaf " . |
| 7 | ‘ People in Bavaria say it is crazy not to have tall cylindro-conicals in a wholly ultra-modern brewery , ’ says Brombach , ‘ but I think that kind of vessel sets up a convection that makes for dirty beer . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ The lack of authority to build up a network of trans-Atlantic routes from Stansted was another factor in this decision , ’ said Mr Mirka . |
| 9 | In a fog I crawled out of bed to pick up a blanket which had fallen on the floor , and as I did so I glanced through into the living room and made out , in the darkness , Changez Lying on his camp-bed watching me . |
| 10 | The request which was made to me in Committee was to bring forward amendments to enable the Secretary of State to set up a funding council , on the clear understanding that no commitment was being given that we would wish to do such a thing . |
| 11 | The Minister confirms what we are saying , that there is no commitment on behalf of the Secretary of State to set up a funding council . |
| 12 | In addition to the subject working groups , the Secretary of State set up a Task Group on Testing and Assessment ( TGAT ) , which reported in early 1988 with recommendations for assessment arrangements for the national curriculum ; by and large , these were accepted by the Secretary of State . |
| 13 | The B M A wants tougher controls on the use of pesticides ; Sir Christopher Booth , the Chairman of the working party which produced the report , also wants the Department of Health to set up a pesticide incident monitoring unit , in addition to a reduction in the use of chemicals . |
| 14 | Jean Moncrieff ( Mrs Seglow ) has been seconded to the Department of Health to set up an information ‘ clearing house ’ on the Children Act 1989 . |
| 15 | The International Association for the Study of Pain set up a Taxonomy Committee whose first job was to generate an agreed definition of pain . |
| 16 | For example , a hearer might derive a range of implicatures about athletes and races , in which case you could say that the use of sprint conjures up an impression of athleticism not suggested by run . |
| 17 | This does involve a lot of money laid out on different colours and a lot of time to build up a collection . |