Example sentences of "[is] [to-vb] up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The usual aim is to carve up a constituency in such a way that first-preferences will be spread evenly between candidates whose chances of election are judged to be good . |
| 2 | The result is to connect up a network of contracts by a uniform set of rules and thus give them multilateral force . |
| 3 | Mazda is to set up a centre in Belgium to train staff in sales and after-sales service . |
| 4 | The ultimate aim is to set up a centre every 50 kilometres . |
| 5 | ‘ So what I think we 've got to do , ’ says Howard , ‘ is to set up a society where everyone has enough sort of … contentment … to be sort of contented , but not so much that they ca n't see that all this sort of contentment is sort of blinding them to the possibility of becoming sort of more contented in a sort of kind of deeper sort of … ’ |
| 6 | Another possibility is to set up a phoneme that we might name syllabicity , symbolised with the mark . |
| 7 | The Sun newspaper is to set up a service called ‘ Hard Views ’ aimed at ‘ cleaning up and improving the standards of journalism in television ’ . |
| 8 | The idea is to set up a Telephone Preference Service . |
| 9 | The aim is to set up a core consortium group by the end of the month . |
| 10 | Second , the effect of the laws of rhythm in poetry is to set up a tension between two different principles of word combination : syntax , which determines it in ordinary language , and rhythm , which constitutes a second determining principle in poetry . |
| 11 | Another aim of the workshop is to set up a group of media trainers and professionals in eastern and southern Africa . |
| 12 | Warburton 's next aim is to set up a fund to help users should a particular company go into liquidation . |
| 13 | What people can do for themselves is to set up the equivalent of alarm calls : trio wires . |
| 14 | He says his next move is to set up an action committee to step up his campaign . |
| 15 | Everything was metal type and most things were printed off , but at least I got to learn , you know , what it is to lock up a page . |
| 16 | ‘ Their central aim is to split up the railway pension fund under the cover of privatisation and take half of it — more than £4 billion — straight into the Treasury . ’ |
| 17 | The intention of the IB is clear ; it is to clean up the game at all levels particularly the shop window of the internationals . |
| 18 | The effect of removing noise is to clean up the image while the effect of removing local variability is to smooth the boundaries and emphasize the regional pattern present in the image . |
| 19 | Motorola 's current role is to open up the merchant market for PowerPCs , selling to those who wo n't buy from IBM , the chip 's originator . |
| 20 | Motorola 's current role is to open up the merchant market for PowerPCs , selling to those that wo n't buy from IBM , the chip 's originator . |
| 21 | I mean if , if she wanted you to go out there today , just if then the sensible is to pick up a taxi . |
| 22 | Head west to reach the head of a stream , Twrch Fechan , where the idea is to pick up a right of way travelling south-east to return to the walk starting point . |
| 23 | However , unless you have some knowledge of the subject , it is just as easy to pay too much as it is to pick up a bargain . |
| 24 | The Rogich plan is to sharpen up the focus , as well as the pace . |
| 25 | One obvious way of finding out what grammar is is to look up the term in a dictionary . |
| 26 | All you have to do while sitting at home or at work , or on a train or bus , is to tense up the arm and leg muscles , then let them go , saying to yourself ‘ I am relaxed ’ . |
| 27 | The second , and the one usually chosen by the authors , is to grow up a mixture of different species in variable numbers until they show signs of pairing and wanting to breed . |
| 28 | All connections in the pipe must be accessible so the fewer there are , the easier it is to cover up the pipework . |
| 29 | As expected , the main thrust of the release is to tidy up the way that the system will work in large enterprises by presenting the network as a single system rather than a collection of individual servers needing separate logins . |
| 30 | The next thing to do whilst it is still taped to the light box is to draw up a component layout diagram , actual size . |