Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [to-vb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The database administrator ( DBA ) is given the opportunity to set up indexes at data creation time and this will increase the speed by which data is retrieved . |
| 2 | Frank also gave Crawford the opportunity to dream up stunts that would put his previous daredevilry in the shade . |
| 3 | Valuable time was lost , the troops opposed to us were able to recover from the disorganization produced by our first attack , and the enemy was given the opportunity to bring up reinforcements . ’ |
| 4 | The successive rounds of the game give us the opportunity to build up trust or mistrust , to reciprocate or placate , forgive or avenge . |
| 5 | While there was disappointment that the Chancellor had not taken the opportunity to roll up tax relief for first time buyers into the first few years of a mortgage , the doubling of the stamp duty threshold has been widely welcomed . |
| 6 | Thus , the decision by the county at the end of the following season not to re-engage him and Garner came as an enormous surprise and caused a furore ; from the emotional angle it was poor reward for years of devoted service , but rationally , since the opportunity to sign up Martin Crowe of New Zealand , who promised so much , had either to be taken or lost , it was a sensible move . |
| 7 | Acute back pain forced the Prince to give up polo for a month in June , 1991 . |
| 8 | Turning his car into a mobile advert for the book , he hustled copies outside clubs and used the money to print up part two , which in turn funded part three — in which Q broke the ultimate literary taboo and swapped the printed word for audiocassette , reading ever ambient funk backdrops . |
| 9 | What prevented French or German firms borrowing on similar terms in Europe or the United States to those faced by US firms , and using the money to buy up firms in Europe or indeed the United States , was their financial and industrial weakness , not the state of Europe 's balance of payments . |
| 10 | So we made the decision to go up Beinn Damh , not a Munro , but nevertheless a divine mountain of 902 metres situated conveniently behind the cottage . |
| 11 | It 's likely that the decision to blow up Pan Am Flight 103 was made in Tehran , in revenge for the downing of an Iranian Airbus over the Persian Gulf by the USS Vincennes in 1988 , killing 290 civilians . |
| 12 | The report suggests that the decision to set up hospital trusts in Scotland resulted either from ‘ deference ’ to the arguments of groups applying for trust status , or from ‘ blind determination to implement unpopular policy ’ . |
| 13 | Rather they preferred to farm them out at a fixed rent , at leases which , in the fourteenth century , became progressively longer , and to enjoy the freedom to take up offices or to serve in the army . |
| 14 | His engineers were glad to continue with the central job they had been engaged on before : the attempt to speed up power station completion rates in undertakings they now controlled more directly . |
| 15 | A detached head , who acts with detachment , coolly weighing matters up , allowing the mind to soak up ideas and to put them together in new ways , is not a primary-school image . |
| 16 | It is one thing , though no doubt foolish , for the president to hold up air traffic while he gets a haircut from a high-priced snipper on the tarmac of Los Angeles airport . |
| 17 | In those states whose governments have refused to have anything to do with the presidential liaison officers appointed by the president to set up offices in the nineteen state capitals , radio station staff have been likewise forbidden to make contact . |
| 18 | were reluctantly constrained to order the defendant to give up possession of 336 , Stocksfield Road to the plaintiffs because of the earlier decision of the Court of Appeal ( Kerr and Woolf L.JJ. ) in South Northamptonshire District Council v. |
| 19 | Microsoft Corp 's MS-DOS 6 , which will be available on Wednesday , will be offered at $50 for the first 60 days , and $130 thereafter , the company said : the two most compelling new features , the company says , are data compression to double hard disk space , and improved memory management ; it also includes the capability to back up files , protect against viruses and reorganize files on the hard disk — the back-up technology was licensed from Symantec Corp 's Peter Norton group , and the anti-viral technology from Central Point Software Inc — but unlike Symantec 's Norton Back-Up , the back-up feature in MS-DOS 6 is n't automatic and does n't support tape drives , and is also slower — and about 300 new viruses have been discovered since Central Point 's virus detection technology was frozen in MS-DOS 6 code ; both companies hope to sell enhancements to the built-in products to users . |
| 20 | then off to the cafe to pick up Fairbrother |
| 21 | The DUP says that Republican violence paid off in the disarming of the RUC , the disbanding of the B Specials , the banning of Orange , Black and Apprentice Boys ' parades resulting in the imprisonment of Loyalists , the overthrow of Ulster 's parliament , the plan for talks with Dublin to change the status of Northern Ireland within the United Kingdom , the abolishing of the Oath of Allegiance to the Queen in the new Assembly and Executive , the making of such oaths illegal for appointment to government boards , the removal of the Governor , the obliteration of ‘ On Her Majesty 's Service ’ from official paid envelopes , the attempt to destroy democracy by power-sharing which was a blow at the secrecy of the ballot box and an insult to British citizenship and standards , the proposal to set up machinery for the transfer of Northern Ireland 's powers to a body or bodies in or with the Irish Republic , and the continued existence of areas in Northern Ireland where the Queen 's writ did not effectually run . |
| 22 | But seneschals still itinerated when they arrived in the duchy to take up office — receiving oaths from the king-duke 's Gascon subjects and swearing a reciprocal oath to them . |
| 23 | Moreover , this lower level of spending is still sufficient to give us the flexibility to take up opportunities in new areas . |
| 24 | She said school buses come into the village to pick up pupils after parents expressed fears for their safety waiting on the A67 . |
| 25 | The move to build up stockpiles in the US is a result , at least partly , of such fears . |
| 26 | We would n't have got the cash to set up Headline if we had n't started with the intention to be commercial . ’ |
| 27 | Arrangements were made for the deceased to take up residence in a residential home for the elderly known as Samuel Saye House , owned and managed by a Mr. and Mrs. Tinker . |
| 28 | This feels wholesome and gives me the confidence to take up issues of racism and sexism in the Lesbian and Gay Workers ' Group and issues of sexism and heterosexism in the Black Workers ' Group , within the organization we work for . |
| 29 | We all spurred and whipped as we reached the bottom of the hill to keep up pace for the snow underfoot made the going heavy , when both Bowyer 's horse and that of Southgate suddenly took on a life of their own . |
| 30 | In an effort to produce a short form the JCT has not included specific provisions for many common situations , such as the need to open up work for inspection , or loss and expense suffered by the contractors due to default by the employer and supervising officer . |