Example sentences of "[noun prp] [to-vb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | One such plan was Reith 's appointment of Patrick Abercrombie and the LCC architect J. H. Forshaw to draw up a scheme for the rebuilding of London . |
| 32 | On March 26 the Yugoslav government urged the UN to speed up the arrival of the full contingent of UNIPROFOR , planned for the first half of April , because of the deteriorating security situation in the Croatian border areas . |
| 33 | Now Mr Bush is heading for his seaside home in Kennebunkport to hang up the sign — Gone Fishin' . |
| 34 | By comparison , in Area 6 , Record Centre Maidstone continue in sparkling form at the head of the table , achieving their third win of the season against Crawley , which , in turn , enabled David Lloyd Eastbourne to move up a place above the leader 's victims . |
| 35 | Some of the workers in Glasgow , he said , had already decided to relocate to the Midlands to take up the offer of employment there . |
| 36 | His premature death opened the way for John Fothergill , an engineer and the first of five generations of Fothergills to head up the Tilery Bank business , to take over . |
| 37 | The producer Ben Kadish thought that if he could get the ‘ hot ’ Hoffman to play opposite her , he would be able to convince Twentieth Century-Fox to put up the money and release it . |
| 38 | In the meantime , since no amount of nagging would persuade Maxie to rake up the leaves or to allow her to employ a man to do it , she would have to do the job herself . |
| 39 | Community Campus are working with Centrepoint Soho to set up a Return Home project in Middlesbrough . |
| 40 | England started in the team tournament with a 4–2 victory over Austria to open up a chance for bronze or silver medal . |
| 41 | Before the fighting started in 1948 , some Palestinians had even arranged to take a holiday in case of hostilities and had called at the Lebanese consulate in Palestine to pick up a visa for Beirut . |
| 42 | THREE nuns from Darlington Carmel Convent follow in the footsteps of their predecessors this month when they travel to South Africa to set up the country 's first multi-racial convent . |
| 43 | A last-minute alteration introduced by Khasbulatov regarding governmental structures would effectively require Yeltsin to give up the premiership within three months , instead of at the end of the year . |
| 44 | At a meeting with US Secretary of State James Baker on July 13 , Prime Minister Hage Geingob asked the USA to use its influence with South Africa to speed up the negotiations over the port of Walvis Bay , which remained under South African jurusdiction . |
| 45 | Mr Christopher plans to ask Israel to speed up a review of the case . |
| 46 | In a similar vein one may recall the refusal of Taskopruzade 's grandfather to return to Istanbul to take up an appointment at the newly built Sahn for fear of becoming involved in distracting ambitions for personal glory . |
| 47 | At the time , there was quite a campaign starting to build , calling for Wimbledon to dig up the grass . |
| 48 | Some sort of dress rehearsal was clearly required for the Cypriot police officers who were only just coming to grips with wiretap technology , and , right on cue , one of Hurley 's informants passed the word that Abou Daod , a Lebanese drugs trafficker , was coming to Cyprus to set up a deal . |
| 49 | All we 've got to do is go back to London and get Joe to set up a workshop there and work himself silly . |
| 50 | Alarmed by inner-city tensions in reaction to mass immigration from the Commonwealth , in June 1955 the Home Secretary asked Sir Anthony Eden to set up a committee of inquiry , to drum up support for immigration controls . |
| 51 | In December 1914 Edith Pye went to Châlons-sur-Marne to set up a maternity hospital for women refugees from Reims in what had been an insane asylum , without hot water or electricity , fifteen miles from the fighting line . |
| 52 | Even nipping into Boots to pick up a bottle of shampoo or popping into Woolworths for some pick 'n' mix can turn out to be a major sensory-assault course . |
| 53 | The sounds mingled in her mind with the harsh cries of the birds as she waited for Sybil to pick up the phone again . |
| 54 | The Cabinet will meet for the first time on Wednesday to draw up a programme of legislation for the new session of Parliament , which will last 18 months until the autumn of 1993 . |
| 55 | In Costa Rica a microfilm centre will be started while a loan will enable Cuzco in Peru to build up an archive . |
| 56 | When Parliament sat again , the government announced that there would not be a ballot for Private Members ' Bills in the first session , and therefore there was no possibility of homosexual law reform , a decision which prompted the Earl of Arran to reintroduce his Sexual Offences Bill into the House of Lords to keep up the pressure . |
| 57 | Could it be supposed that it would be more impossible for God to raise up a body at Resurrection , if needs be , out of elementary particles , which had been liberated by burning , than it would be to raise up a body from dust ? ’ |
| 58 | The Rev Peris Williams and his wife Sheila are leaving St Hildeburgh 's at Hoylake in Wirral to take up the parish of Holy Trinity in Blacon , Chester , in October . |
| 59 | The film was a big success , partly because of its openness about sex ( made possible by the appointment of John Trevelyan to head up the BBFC ) , but also because the hero 's class resentment brought to the surface emotions that British cinema normally repressed . |
| 60 | Roxburgh meanwhile will surpass the all-time Scottish managerial record of 61 games he currently shares with the late Jock Stein when Scotland tackle Italy and Malta to wind up the campaign . |