Example sentences of "[to-vb] up [art] [noun prp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | GOSPEL singer Michael Card will play the Assembly Hall in Belfast tonight — and still be up at the crack of dawn tomorrow to dash up the Antrim Coast for the North West 200 . |
| 2 | The Danube Environmental Programme , which aims to clean up the Danube basin , may be frustrated by the enormous amount of pollution coming from Croatia . |
| 3 | On Saturday , more than 15,000 demonstrators ignored an official ban and rain to march through Minsk demanding local authorities do more to clean up the Chernobyl accident . |
| 4 | Everyone made it back to the rendezvous where they laid up for the day , returning in the evening to pick up the SBS group which had managed to deal with the radio station . |
| 5 | So it was that — ill-equipped , ignoring all warnings , and unable to pick up the BBC World Service on our radio — we confronted El Jocoso without guides and in a thunderstorm . |
| 6 | These measures would help to open up the UDC area , and encourage more people to live and work in the area . |
| 7 | ‘ Some Americans wanted to open up the Spurling yard , and offered big money to the Borough Council , but that useless lot — that bunch of pen-pushers — they turned down the offer in favour of the Japanese . |
| 8 | Could you please give me some advice on how to set up a Mbuna community ? |
| 9 | Motown , a leading black record company , is now making moves to set up a Nashville branch . |
| 10 | In this case , it is necessary to set up a PAYE scheme with the Inland Revenue , to deduct tax and National Insurance , and to pay these over on a regular monthly basis . |
| 11 | I am hoping to set up a Koi pool in a large shed . |
| 12 | YMCA home for Darlington youngsters A £1m. scheme to set up a YMCA home in Darlington town centre was unveiled yesterday . |
| 13 | THE LATEST application to set up an NHS Trust in Cleveland was yesterday described as ‘ a headlong rush ’ towards a more divided and more fragmented health service in the county . |
| 14 | Once the school librarian or teacher has mastered the simple stages of switching on the different parts of the microcomputer , e.g. to set up the BBC microcomputer , the user 1 ) Plugs in the computer , the disk drive , the monitor and the printer 2 ) Switches on the microcomputer , the disk drive , the monitor and the printer 3 ) Puts a disk into the disk drive 4 ) Types in a command on the microcomputer s/he will be able to use programs for different applications such as database creation or word processing and the applications are covered later in this book . |
| 15 | In 1979 widespread disruptive action led the then Labour government to set up the May Inquiry , intended to be a major review of the entire prison system ( May , 1979 ) . |
| 16 | In 1965 Lloyd went back to being Student 's editor , and Jim Haynes headed south to set up the London Traverse Company at the Jeanetta Cochrane Theatre in Holborn . |
| 17 | Her Majesty 's Government is also involved , for it is planning to set up the BritTrak Consortium which would reduce the rail network to a single , high profit track , ‘ running from the City to a decent little pub in Chobham ’ . |
| 18 | Aw , c'm on , it was just like that in Australia not long ago : one of the wire services reports in a condescending way that under local law , the National Institute of Industrial Property of Brazil recognises only the principle of priority in brand names , so that companies like IBM Corp , Xerox Corp and Sony Corp have had to ‘ buy back ’ their names before they could do business under them in Brazil ; the US is pressing Brazil to change the law to protect internationally recognised brand names — but it is not so long ago that , legend has it , an enterprising travelling Australian spotted that car hire was becoming big business , so when he got home , he registered the names Hertz and Avis , sold the Hertz name back to the company when it wanted to set up in Australia — and then used the cash he got from Hertz to set up the Avis concession in Australia . |
| 19 | She had earned a great deal of money from her swimming , which she then used to set up the Mercedes Gleitze Homes for Destitute Men and Women . |
| 20 | And it 's this that inspired the pair of them to set up the Thomas Appeal . |
| 21 | In the effort to spice up the Enya alliance , some journalists have made a meal out of ‘ menage a trois ’ speculation . |
| 22 | Apparently the Stateside A&M label wanted their charges to cut a couple of cover versions , to gimmick up the US public , hoping for some obvious pop . |
| 23 | Apparently the Stateside A&M label wanted their charges to cut a couple of cover versions , to gimmick up the US public , hoping for some obvious pop . |
| 24 | You forgot to cover up the Anglia Television badge on the front end ! |
| 25 | If you decide to come here , be sure to look up the ACAUS chapter in your city and we will be glad to assist you to the extent we can . |
| 26 | During the reign of Elizabeth I , English seamen such as Drake , Hawkins , Grenville and Raleigh exasperated the Spanish by their expeditions to the Americas , and the Roman Catholic King Philip of Spain also considered Elizabeth I a heretic ; so he despatched a great fleet of galleons , in 1588 , named ‘ The Armada ’ , to sail up the English Channel and transport a Spanish army of invasion from the Netherlands , but the smaller British ships played havoc with the mighty ships during their journey and stormy weather drove the remnants of the Armada around the British Isles , most of the ships being wrecked at various points , including the Atlantic west coast of Ireland . |
| 27 | Healey dropped hints in Washington that Britain — in the long run — might decide to give up the Singapore base . |
| 28 | When Semple departed , Dalton Trumbo came in to build up the Dega character in line with the buddy-buddy movie trend . |
| 29 | COSE has also agreed to do a plenary-style panel a la Uniforum that should attempt a general statement of intent , an update and hopefully try to clear up the COSE confusion — see back page . |
| 30 | Out of the West : Fast Icelander set to speed up the Bush image |