Example sentences of "[noun prp] [to-vb] up a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Yeltsin and Mr Khasbulatov agreed on Tuesday to set up a commission to negotiate a ‘ constitutional agreement ’ for dividing power between legislature and executive but parliament yesterday postponed debate on the subject until next Thursday . |
| 2 | This required LEAs to set up a careers service . |
| 3 | CW to draw up a list ( attached ) of new machine allocations and resultant re-allocations . |
| 4 | At the Manor today it 's been all quiet … the postman has delivered more applications … the board will meet either Friday or Saturday to draw up a shortlist … |
| 5 | At the Manor today it 's been all quiet … the postman has delivered more applications … the board will meet either Friday or Saturday to draw up a shortlist … |
| 6 | Duncan , at six feet eight inches , has a devastating service , and is now off to Texas to take up a tennis scholarship . |
| 7 | After dinner that evening , Cocello instructed Randy Mueller to set up a task force team from Detroit to come up with a phase-out plan for vehicle manufacture , and a phase-in plan for supplying the UK market from imports , |
| 8 | She said that two Daughters of Charity are going to Romania to set up a training programme for nursing staff and care assistants . |
| 9 | Actors and dancers came to Alexander for advice ; he became a therapist and in 1900 moved to England to set up a practice in London . |
| 10 | It was Aer Lingus girl , Denise McCarthy , who caused the day 's biggest upset against the great Mary McKenna to set up a clash with Baltray 's pretty Oonagh Purfield for promotion to the last eight . |
| 11 | Permission was obtained from the APU and HMSO to make up a test of APU items for the purpose of comparing different samples participating in the project . |
| 12 | Curtis looked extremely sharp in his 6–0 6–1 dismissal of Broxbourne 's Nick Lester to set up a final which , on paper , looked evenly balanced . |
| 13 | The Miseroni were called to Prague to set up a workshop for crystal carving and gem cutting , and they laid the foundations for the Bohemian cut-glass industry . |
| 14 | I went down to Monte Carlo to set up a tournament and was privileged to be granted a meeting with the sports-mad Prince at the Palace . |
| 15 | She had not abandoned her own efforts , but she had got Mrs Diggory to fetch up a couple of girls from the village . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Community Campus are working with Centrepoint Soho to set up a Return Home project in Middlesbrough . |
| 19 | England started in the team tournament with a 4–2 victory over Austria to open up a chance for bronze or silver medal . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Mr Christopher plans to ask Israel to speed up a review of the case . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | All we 've got to do is go back to London and get Joe to set up a workshop there and work himself silly . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 ? ’ |
| 29 | The very next week an advertisement came round the office from Scottish Overseas Health Support looking for nurse teachers to go out to Saudi Arabia to set up a training programme for dental hygienists , medical records officers and ( you 've guessed it ) nurses , CAUGHT ! ! |
| 30 | Looking at the account books — the real ones , not the fabrications served up to the Poles and the League of Nations — it was clear that Danzig 's projected budget for 1934–5 would run at a deficit of over 44 million gulden , which , when added to the employment projects the Nazis needed to keep their supporters in Danzig happy and faithful , would leave the Reichsbank to pick up a bill of over 110 million marks . |