Example sentences of "[verb] up [art] [noun pl] for " in BNC.

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1 Moreover , the obvious success of MDC in opening up the docklands for mass market consumption has also effectively restrained local opposition .
2 A good technique is to have a flip chart or white board , divide it with a line down the middle and ask someone to write up the arguments for and against .
3 I had looked up the directions for the Pan-Am Highway at the hotel .
4 Third , if the crude mechanism of totting up the votes for different parties is to be employed for the purpose of supporting a specific contention , there is the inconvenient fact that 79 per cent of those who voted in Scotland backed parties that wish to maintain the Union .
5 One adds up the probabilities for all the particle histories with certain properties , such as passing through certain points at certain times .
6 Five minutes into the second half , the parry was from the boy was looking for his first goal , and it 's picking up the pieces for his second of the afternoon .
7 The claims so built up the expectations for ZETA after the first conference that the subsequent news was perceived as ‘ failure ’ .
8 I am looking forward to the next stage of Tencel and we are already working with Fibers and Research to set up the teams for a new project .
9 For instance , a user may type @SYS$LIFESPAN:LSTRAIN to set up the assignments for accessing the LSTRAIN process .
10 It is important to note that , since the system began in the late 1920s , there has never been a significant move to split up the schools for use by the separate denominations , something which would have been feasible in the larger towns .
11 I lost Granpa quite a bit of our weekly profit that way , until he taught me to say , ‘ Twopence change , Mrs Smith , ’ then hold up the coins for all to see before handing them over .
12 Frequently , the government repays doctors for their services ( and pharmaceutical companies for their drugs ) far below cost , forcing up the prices for those who can pay .
13 He , along with Spaak and the long-serving Luxembourg premier , Joseph Beck ( who chaired the meeting ) , were the driving force at Messina : they were , in fact , the three men who in exile had drawn up the plans for Benelux .
14 However , their good work at this stage was undone 11 minutes from time when a slip by veteran defender David Narey was enough to wrap up the points for the visitors .
15 Maybe it 's a pity that people have n't lost the head a bit ; that they have n't gone berserk and showed up the authorities for what they are — I do n't know , unfeeling , inhuman , unconcerned .
16 Add up the points for the 9 questions :
17 In doing this , the system may have to combine and manipulate information from a number of different sources : the operator specifies the letters and clauses to be used ; the system fills out certain details from the data base ; in some cases it may have to do such things as take the salary and location from the data base , look up the conditions for that location , find out that certain uplifts need to be applied to salary , perform the arithmetic and insert the answers in the appropriate places in the text .
18 The probability of going from A to B is found by adding up the waves for all the paths .
19 I wish I could be like you and just give up the Glens for Linfield .
20 Labour chiefs branded the rush of openness too late after the Government had hushed up the payments for 18 months .
21 The answer was to develop the system of Cabinet Committees to reduce the load on the Cabinet by settling minor matters and , in other cases , sharpening up the issues for decision .
22 If you are n't find an old fashioned TV repair shop and ask them if they 'll make up the leads for you .
23 ‘ We were a player short and he made up the numbers for us . ’
24 Nobody in Manchester is going to put up the rates for a power station in Corby . ’
25 CCTV had to weigh up the demands for the series to be repeated with the views expressed by some Party members that ‘ Heshang ’ was subversive and dangerous .
26 I 'll set up the interviews for you . ’
27 For the eye to work the following minimum perfectly coordinated steps have to take place ( there are many others happening simultaneously , but even a grossly simplified description is enough to point up the problems for Darwinian theory ) .
28 They followed up the cases for 12 months to discover how the accident had affected their general mental state , travel anxiety and their attitude to driving or being a passenger .
29 We have undertaken a randomised trial of elemental diet v prednisolone , to consider these points , in patients with newly diagnosed or recurrent attacks of Crohn 's disease , and followed up the patients for one year after treatment or until relapse .
30 When an engineer calls up the plans for a jet engine , the information in the definition of that object allows the system — automatically and efficiently — to retrieve the plans for all its sub-components .
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