Example sentences of "[verb] up [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The sales conference , held just before the all-important Christmas run-up began , was meant to psych up the sales force for the new line . |
2 | NATO will now plan opening up a land corridor to the beleaguered city of Sarajevo for armed relief convoys . |
3 | He managed to complete the last lap with a flourish in a little under a minute , opening up a 10-metre lead down the back straight . |
4 | A modern patio with a large glazed area is the ideal way of opening up a living room by leading the eye out into the garden . |
5 | The scheme was set up to encourage a broader section of the public to buy works of art by living artists , thus opening up the art market while at the same time helping artists to earn an income . |
6 | Opening up the printing trade to women could be seen either as the unscrupulous recruitment of low-paid labour or as the expansion of opportunities for educated working-class girls . |
7 | Thornton spelled out how the new technology was rapidly opening up the newspaper scene , and offering enormous cost-cutting possibilities . |
8 | The SDP had been formed in 1981 with the intention of opening up the centre ground of British party politics [ see pp. 30911-12 ] , but after the Social and Liberal Democratic Party ( SLDP — now termed Liberal Democrats ) was formed in March 1988 combining most members of the former Liberal Party and of the SDP [ see p. 36501 ] , David Owen led the rump as a " continuing " SDP . |
9 | Bruce is particularly proud of ICI 's role in opening up the spirits market . |
10 | These can be disappointing because the camcorder 's auto-exposure system , in opening up the lens aperture to maximise the average brightness of the shot , will probably record the coloured lights as colourless points of light . |
11 | She opened the heavy oak doors and the dogs swept past her bounding across the drive to their master who was opening up the car boot to remove his luggage . |
12 | Public accountability and transparency might be assisted by opening up the negotiation process between Central and Local government to participation by disinterested , knowledgeable parties and to non-expert advisors who could seek to ensure transparency , which is manifestly lacking in current procedures , particularly for the assessment of Grant Related Expenditure . |
13 | Lord Silsoe , QC , opening up the CEGB campaign and taking two and a half days to do it ( there 's nothing like Latin for spinning words out ) , said that the board 's case had three main points . |
14 | Flowers , a surprise call-up a month ago when the squads for the World Cup double in Poland and Norway were announced , so much looked the part as Chris Woods 's stand-in that he may have leapfrogged up the goalkeeping queue . |
15 | Now I 'd also in this time rung up the er forwarding address in Manchester , rung up the telephone number I 'd been given of the forwarding address . |
16 | The castellated Raven Hotel ( a healthy clamber up the cliff path ) provided refreshment at reasonable prices . |
17 | Under US pressure , Kaifu announced in September a US$4,000 million contribution to the international effort against Iraq , and drew up a Peace Co-operation Bill to authorize the dispatch of 2,000 non-combatants from Japan 's Self Defence Forces to assist the allied forces being deployed against Iraq . |
18 | Manager : We sat with the clinicians and said , look we 've got to identify the capital to do this properly and we drew up a clinic scheme and then we had to compromise on what they wanted and John at one stage said , " I 'm sorry , that is what you 're getting . |
19 | He drew up a work schedule dedicated ‘ to providing holes which would be reachable with two good shots , when the ground is soft and there is little or no run , rather than cater as regards length for the summer conditions ’ . |
20 | Buick also sorted out its muddled product line and drew up a marketing plan that helped it sidestep the most intensely competitive part of the American market . |
21 | They drew up a UN resolution agreeing to use force if needed . |
22 | In January 1883 Henry Thring , the Attorney-General , drew up a draft bill which incorporated the main recommendations of the Lords ' Committee . |
23 | At the end of last year , and with the help of its publishers ' advisory committee , the Council 's Libraries , Books and Information Division drew up a book promotion policy . |
24 | That is an easier position to implement than the one taken by the countries which drew up the Basle convention on transboundary movements of hazardous waste , agreed in 1989 and in force since May last year . |
25 | Bernadette Friend talks to Pearl Brown , the nurse member of the team which drew up the Tomlinson report |
26 | As Paul-Henri Spaak was later to remind the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe in 1964 , ‘ Those who drew up the Rome Treaty … did not think of it as essentially economic ; they thought of it as a stage on the way to political union ’ . |
27 | Is the Minister seriously saying that when he drew up the disposal scheme and the scheme for professional advice he had no consultation with the Secretary of State for Transport ? |
28 | On March 11 , opposition groups led by George Serban drew up the Timisoara Declaration , a document calling for the banning of ex-communists from public office , a purge of the bureaucracy and democratic reforms . |
29 | Also , as it so happens , in August 1941 Winston Churchill had a meeting with President Roosevelt on board a British battleship , off the coast of Newfoundland , and that was followed by a further meeting at Christmas in Washington , when they agreed to send aid to Russia in the form of armaments , etc. , also they drew up the Atlantic Charter under which it was proclaimed that all peoples , in all parts of the world , would have the right to choose their own form of government . |
30 | He recently drew up an ethics policy for United Biscuits , which he expects all his managers to endorse , because ‘ as a business becomes bigger and bigger — we now have operations in Japan , America and Belgium as well as the UK — I think the family ethics drawn up by the founders can gradually get eroded or watered down . ’ |