Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's about building up a character till you know everything . |
| 2 | Furthermore , British Rail has its eyes on the Bankside site for bringing up the spoil from the tunnel for Channel traffic which it is , so absurdly , driving under the middle of London at astronomical cost . |
| 3 | On this basis , no parents would consider abortion for ‘ Reason four ’ ( see Chapter five ) ; everything possible would be done to help the survival of the severely handicapped ; parents would in almost all cases wish to keep their child , and there would be no actual difference between bringing up a child who was mentally handicapped and one who was not , or one who was disabled or one who was not , unless the necessary support services were lacking . |
| 4 | Two of these scholars , Edward Foxe and Thomas Cranmer , who were both members of Anne Boleyn 's faction at court , were responsible for drawing up a document called the Collectanea satis copiosa , in which they advanced a claim of imperial sovereignty for the English monarchy . |
| 5 | Matthieu was also responsible for drawing up a plan of the New Town ( see p. 138 ) but he died in 1352 before completing more than four chapels in the cathedral choir . |
| 6 | Established by Congress on Aug. 2 , it was given responsibility for drawing up a plan within 150 days for the " pacification " of the country . |
| 7 | The enlightened bureaucrats who were primarily responsible for drawing up the legislation of 1861 may not have achieved everything for which they were striving , but they were undoubtedly trying to achieve more than the modernization of the gentry 's sources of income or the revivification of the state machine . |
| 8 | When establishing the Editing Commissions responsible for drawing up the Statute of 1861 , the Tsar had recognized the need to appoint men who not only could cope with the intricacies of the legislation involved but who positively favoured Emancipation , who were convinced in their hearts as well as their heads of its desirability . |
| 9 | The Bulgarian Telecommunications Co , which last week gave contracts to Siemens AG , L M Ericsson Telefon AB , Alcatel NV and Northern Telecom Ltd under its $300m modernisation programme , says it will announce two more foreign investors shortly : ‘ We will announce soon our partners for building up a surface satellite station and for introduction of a new digital overlay network , ’ Antoni Slavinski , deputy chairman told Reuter ; and a joint venture between Bulgarian Telecommunications Co and US Sprint International Inc will start operating on April 15 ; Sprint Business Telecommunications Co will enable customers in Bulgaria to link host and personal computers with others around the world , and says it already has some 50 applications , mostly from foreign companies operating in Bulgaria . |
| 10 | The most common rates for building up a pension are 1/80th of earnings for each year you have been in the scheme , or l/60th . |
| 11 | It was a good time for building up the faculty . |
| 12 | We have seen how McClellan 's system provides a framework for building up the bookstock at each service point . |
| 13 | The main problem about drawing up a will is that it means accepting the inevitability of death . |
| 14 | Delegated legislation , decisions of the courts , and changing administrative practice , amounted to a sluggish dynamic for speeding up the ability of the criminal justice system to respond . |
| 15 | A volcano has even been blamed for speeding up the onset of the last Ice Age . |
| 16 | You know that , that one where you 've got ta make up a monster . |
| 17 | I think some people do think that is selfish and that marriage is about bringing up a family and looking after the house . ’ |
| 18 | You may have worries about bringing up the subject of safer sex in case your partner thinks you are ‘ easy ’ or that you have ‘ slept around ’ . |
| 19 | Do use them for mopping up the blood on the new road . |
| 20 | Short-term money market accounts yielding high interest were abolished , to be replaced by a " Social Development Fund " where short-term money would be pooled to finance the debts of state and local government , blamed by the government as being primarily responsible for driving up the money supply . |
| 21 | A two-year research project has produced what is called the home bus system , a set of standards for wiring up the home with coaxial cable . |
| 22 | This is in addition to the normal purposes of cuts , such as keeping up the pace of the story , or giving emphasis to actions or reactions . |
| 23 | Moon Valley Software 's Icon Hear-It is a program offering lots of fun utilities for brightening up the Window Desktop . |
| 24 | Moon Valley Software 's Icon Hear-It is a program offering lots of fun utilities for brightening up the Window Desktop . |
| 25 | Hand-painted in ten different colourways to match the china , the tiles are proving popular not only for the floor and fireplace surrounds , but for brightening up the area around kitchen Agas . |
| 26 | After wiring up the Xmas tree lights and programming the computer , even managed the washing up ! |
| 27 | After mopping up the mess-tin with a large piece of French bread that had accompanied the stew , I got to my feet and looked around the barn . |
| 28 | The contrast between Wilkinson and Ivanisevic on court could hardly have been sharper the towering 6ft 5ins Croat against a relatively feeble-looking Briton , coughing regularly between points after picking up a cold . |
| 29 | Their problems intensified when wing ace Martin Offiah did n't appear for the second half after picking up a leg injury . |
| 30 | Baker , 33 , understudy to injured first-choice Craig Forrest , played through the pain barrier during Ipswich 's 2-2 draw with Coventry City last Saturday after picking up a groin injury . |