Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] up a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether or not you will be asked to pay for your course remains at the discretion of course organisers and managers , therefore , and I am unable to give any hard and fast guidance here , other than to say that they will have to be kept at a reasonable level to be affordable , particularly by those who have been unemployed or bringing up a family . |
| 2 | Various factors could prevent the tenant from commencing to trade within a specified period and where a tenant has fitted out the premises and is paying a full rent ( or using up a rent free period ) the tenant would hopefully only delay opening for trade for a good reason . |
| 3 | Whether you 're eating out or buying a take-away , heating frozen meals from the supermarket or knocking up a fresh pasta and salad in the apartment , quality and variety are excellent . |
| 4 | Establishing , operating or winding up a collective investment scheme , including acting as trustee of an authorised unit trust scheme . |
| 5 | I assumed the Maggot was delivering or picking up a customer , but it was none of my business , so I stripped down to my shorts and began work as Thessy , his brother Philemon and their father took a battered wooden skiff across the lagoon . |
| 6 | If the band spends a lot of money in the venue ( with a big stage extension , an early ‘ get-in ’ to the venue , playing very late , or running up an enormous catering bill ) , all of these costs are paid mainly by the artist . |
| 7 | It is not so obviously true where the intervention takes the form essentially of a decision to initiate a single direct action such as closing a particular valve or starting up a stand-by pump . |
| 8 | The booklet points out that age is never a reason for giving up an activity or taking up a new one . |
| 9 | The booklet points out that age is never a reason for giving up an activity or taking up a new one . |
| 10 | Adding insulation to the inner face of exterior walls involves either fixing thermal board ( plasterboard with a rigid foam backing and a built-in vapour barrier ) directly to the wall surfaces with a panel adhesive , or putting up a framework of battens with blanket insulation between them , and adding a layer of vapour-check plasterboard on top . |
| 11 | He was either concerned for the lad or thinking up a scheme of his own . |
| 12 | Being able to stay in your own home or setting up a home of your own is something that most people value greatly . |
| 13 | If instead of paid work , you are thinking of becoming self-employed or setting up a business , you will not only have the start-up costs but , as you are probably well aware , very few new enterprises make a profit during the first two or three years . |
| 14 | We 've started it in our studio , bringing their people into the city or setting up a kind of branch over there where people can work together and so you do n't get the political problems of ownerships , of people saying well that 's your idea , you know , it 's the old thing of as soon as the client thinks that it 's his idea then he wants it , and it 's very hard . |
| 15 | At any moment I expected one of the masters , placed at strategic intervals to stop a guy taking short cuts or lighting up a Havana cigar , to leap out from a place of concealment , brandishing The Times and bellowing , ‘ Come on , Britton ! |
| 16 | So , so th th that would be some of the thinking which would lie behind sitting down and , and and drawing up a , a reform document a land reform document , in the very late nineteen forties . |
| 17 | Although he has had his feet under the desk only since January , he has been preparing for the job since last summer by meeting researchers and officials , visiting institutes abroad and drawing up an initial draft of his plans . |
| 18 | They are still occupying the lower status jobs , and bringing up a family has often meant interruptions to education or professional training . |
| 19 | But that staying at home and looking after the children , or whatever and bringing up a family is just as valuable as a job , or a career . |
| 20 | The purpose of this module is to provide the opportunity to explore questions of having and bringing up a family , to develop knowledge and skills in being a parent in areas selected on the basis of each individual 's needs and interests , and to help people enjoy being parents . |
| 21 | Again these machines are computer monitored ( a feature which is common on units from the USA and now more in evidence on European-made machines ) with the computer simply emitting a beep and flashing up a ‘ filter now ’ sign when filtration should take place . |
| 22 | just lay into the bag with fast punch and kick sequences , moving around all the time and building up a good sweat . |
| 23 | The hit song of the year was ‘ It 's A Long Way to Tipperaray ’ but old Ireland was singing an older song and building up a hidden army . |
| 24 | Sequins can be overlapped too , like scales ; it is really fun choosing them and building up a picture |
| 25 | So much time and thought was spent in working these out and building up a satisfactory order of phases . |
| 26 | Do not let this kindness on the part of the college discourage you from buying your own textbooks and building up a library of your own . |
| 27 | ‘ The beautiful torment of denial , of postponing the inevitable and building up a sweet need that improves every second of surrender . |
| 28 | For years , the traditional method has been to use phonetics ; learning how each letter sounds and building up a word . |
| 29 | They have spent ten years perfecting their own blend of rhythm and blues and building up a solid base in the region . |
| 30 | A break during the middle of the day and a return to the stables — apart from the question of distance from the field where the work was being done — would have meant unyoking and yoking up a second time for another stint in the afternoon ; and this would have lengthened the day without appreciably lengthening the working time . |