Example sentences of "[noun sg] up [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Redcliffe-Maud considered that Senior was the only one of the eleven commissioners who had made his mind up before the first meeting of the Royal Commission ( Wood 1976:8 ) . |
| 2 | ‘ I want to think about it and will probably make my mind up in the next day or two . ’ |
| 3 | RIBA Council , on the recommendation of the regional council , approved the setting up of a fifth branch in the region to serve the members in Central Wales . |
| 4 | For a variety of very sound reasons , it will not be possible in many areas to contemplate the setting up of a Sixth Form College . |
| 5 | Horror stories abound , originally fuelled by the publication of Ruth Harrison 's Animal Machines ( 1964 ) , a book which in Britain directly influenced the setting up of the first parliamentary inquiry into the new methods of animal husbandry under the chairmanship of F.W.R. Brambell . |
| 6 | The trial of Bradlaugh and Annie Besant in 1876 for republishing one of Knowlton 's pamphlets gave the birth-control movement wide publicity and created the demand for more information , and led to the setting up of the first organisation to campaign on birth control , the Malthusian League . |
| 7 | It seems that the traumatic events surrounding the over-throw of the primal hordes and the setting up of the first fraternal hunting clans produced in our ancestors a central psychological conflict of such huge and all-engulfing proportions that all subsequent generations have to some extent or other felt its effects . |
| 8 | We believe that the downturn has genuinely bottomed out now , however , and we will be watching for a pick up during the next three months . ’ |
| 9 | But you 've got to make a mental leap , because I mean for the last five years , things have been pretty horrible , since eighty seven really , I mean we 've only had the pick up in the last year . |
| 10 | However , it is important to remember that after 1935 the traditional industries recovered in the run up to a second war and continued to be prosperous until the early 1960s . |
| 11 | Indeed , in the early stages of the contest much was made of the lightweight nature of the public support Heseltine received ( it was not until the run up to the second ballot , when Mrs Thatcher was out of the race , that he received public support from Lawson and Howe ) . |
| 12 | Discussion of the inter-war years usually centres on industrial change , but North Shields resembles the rest of the North East here in that while it is true that the 1920s saw a good deal of structurally induced unemployment which reflected the position of traditional basic industries , and the 1930s saw the impact of work recession , these same basic industries began to recover in the run up to the Second World War in the mid-1930s and were to remain basic to the area until the early 1960s . |
| 13 | He went along the other gallery up to the second floor and his own room . ’ |
| 14 | I suppose this could be a flare up of the last one . |
| 15 | Almost all the attractive parts of the house could remain operative : the extensive servants ' quarters — including the back corridor , the two still rooms and the old laundry — and the guest corridor up on the second floor would be dust-sheeted , leaving all the main ground-floor rooms and a generous number of guest rooms . |
| 16 | Accordingly , payments made in consideration or in consequence of , or otherwise in connection with , the termination of the holding of an employee 's office or employment , or any change in its functions , may be eligible for relief from income tax up to the first £30,000 , provided such payments are not otherwise chargeable to tax under Schedule E ( see ss148 and 188 TA 1988 ) . |
| 17 | We combine these by choosing just a few random points in them , say two or three , and copying from the first string up to the first point ; then copying from the second up to the second point ; then copying from the first again ; and so on , switching between them at each point . |
| 18 | They had needed the eccentric goalkeeping of Grobbelaar to keep them in the match up to the 111th minute , when Anderton suddenly revealed why so many scouts have been beating a path to Fratton Park . |
| 19 | The case method had become adopted as the dominant method of legal study in the elite American law schools in the period up to the First World War . |
| 20 | This research especially focuses on Leonel Brizola and his government in Rio de Janeiro , but is concerned with the overall implications for national as well as regional policy formation contained in Brazil 's new political alignments in the period up to the next change of president . |
| 21 | Curtain up on the 40th Oxford Gang Show , an annual event which means months of frantic organisation and jolly hard team work for those taking part ; a ritual of devotion from backstage helpers and an early taste of stagefright for aspiring young performers . |
| 22 | That year saw England 's famous World Cup victory , and James Cossins recalled ‘ the difficulty of getting us all out of the wardrobe at the Duke of York 's — the only room with a TV set — in time for curtain up on the second house on the Saturday night that England won , and the fact that the cast were almost too hoarse to get to the end of the play . |
| 23 | Australia , battered by Larwood and Voce , were ready to call Darling up for the fourth Test . |
| 24 | ‘ Yes , the Premier — and the Fourth right up to the First . |
| 25 | Raffle prizes were donated by Roy and Carl and raised more than £130 for the club which just missed out on an historic victory — being runner up in the first division of the Industries League for a second year . |
| 26 | Christie … of course and two more Redgrave and Pinsent the Olympic rowers who this week started their build up for the next games … yes … in four years time … they 're our special guests in this week 's Friday Feature |
| 27 | The build up to the next Olympic games believe it or not is already underway … and our Friday Feature this week comes from Milton Keynes where Britain 's ice skaters have been launching themselves into the challenge of gold |
| 28 | The glorious ‘ saturated ’ sound of the VPO strings is strangely attenuated , and the build up to the last climax ( around 16′40″ ) is an unconvincingly brazen affair with too much from the timps and cymbals and not quite enough heart . |
| 29 | The press immediately took the heat off Margaret Thatcher , went for Norman Tebbit and went for Edwina Currie , and I think that was a part of the success in the build up to the last election , because at a time when the pressure really was on the Prime Minister , like it was a couple of when in the last few months of Margaret Thatcher 's leadership , that 's what happened . |
| 30 | After a non-Munro top , An Garbhanach , it 's a short pull up to the second peak Stob Coire a' Chairn . |