Example sentences of "[verb] up [subord] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He moved at once , for he would not lie here on the floor before this ancient evil creature and , although it was awkward and painful to stand up because of the ropes that bound his arms , he did so in a swift fluid movement and stood eyeing the Robemaker . |
| 2 | I think the other possibility to take Stella 's point is that if there is a change that 's come up because of an audit , where a particular job has been audited and you know that within the next week or so another similar job is being audited , it may make sense to refer it 'til the next meeting , providing you 're not deferring it for a long period of time , to compar the results of the two jobs . |
| 3 | In other words , some good measurements might be lost , but bad measurements are likely to be picked up because of the requirement that both the subject measurement and the reference measurement must be consistent . |
| 4 | These are so faint and they only show up because of the long time exposure . |
| 5 | They met up because of the papers . |
| 6 | Most smokers want to give up because of the effect of smoking on their health — not to mention the smelly clothes , the bad breath , the coughs and wheezes . |
| 7 | The Fair Employment Commission was set up because of the disadvantage experienced by Northern Ireland Catholics in terms of greatly higher unemployment rates , lower participation rates in the more prestigious better-paid jobs and much greater participation in insecure or poorly paid jobs . |
| 8 | The Campaign for Real Yorkshire has been set up because of the imminent review of local government structures in the county being carried out by the Government 's Local Government Commission . |
| 9 | The Campaign for Real Yorkshire has been set up because of the imminent review of local government structures in the county , being carried out by the Government 's Local Government Commission . |
| 10 | From Vitebsk it was heard that a railway-wagon workshop meeting convened on 30 March with the aim of helping in the requisition of church valuables broke up because of the ‘ thunderous outcries of believers ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ They recommended it to the Department of Employment but were told that things had been tightened up because of a Bulgarian footballer who was signed by Ipswich Town and then found to have less international caps than at first thought . |
| 12 | He says the bar keeps icing up because of the frost and if it 's like that in the sky I could fall off . |
| 13 | In that case the buyer of a new Nissan car had had it for less than three weeks and had made two or three short journeys in it for the purpose of trying it out , before the engine seized up because of a latent manufacturing fault . |
| 14 | Payment had been held up because of a cash shortage . |
| 15 | It had been held up because of the freezing of assistance to the Soviet Union ( also released on the same day — see p. 38105 ) . |
| 16 | A county spokeswoman said : ‘ Clwyd has agreed with Wrexham Maelor that it can have the buildings but it is being held up because of the situation with NEWI . |
| 17 | He refused to blame his alcohol problem for the break-up of his 10-year marriage to TV presenter Maggie Philbin , saying : ‘ I do n't think we split up because of the drink . ’ |