Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] up a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Lila Wallace-Reader 's Digest Fund , Inc. made a $2 million grant for the medieval and Renaissance galleries , and the National Endowment for the Humanities followed up a $525,000 ‘ Museum Program ’ grant with a challenge grant of $750,000 that we have to match 3 to 1 . |
| 2 | Newman in one of the Tracts for the Times drew up a form of service , to be used on the anniversary of Ken 's funeral , whose central message was ‘ He gave to Caesar the things that be Caesar 's and to God the things that be God 's . ’ |
| 3 | The watercolour sketch I have started here Gulls Feeding ( Figure 8 ) is a compilation and uses repetition of the shapes in the sketches to build up a sense of activity . |
| 4 | Bend down at the knees to pick up a bulky object , thus avoiding back strain . |
| 5 | The Scots opened up a 20-shot lead over Ireland after just five ends and then pulled away to finish convincing 56-shot winners . |
| 6 | His first tasks were to erect fortifications , to intrigue to prevent the Arabs from uniting to expel the intruder , and to use the Jews to set up a highly efficient intelligence network . |
| 7 | The exiles set up a medical school at Jundishapur , south of modern Teheran , where their arcane and esoteric formulae were stolen by the Arabs during the early conquests of Islam . |
| 8 | These include the spatial or temporal intervals between the elements making up a display ( Kimura , 1969 ; Hines and Satz , 1971 ) , the distance of stimuli from fixation ( Bryden , 1966 ; McKeever and Gill 1972c ; Carmon and Nachson , 1973 ; Curcio , MacKavey and Rosen , 1974 ) , the spatial frequency of the stimulus ( Rao , Rourke and Whitman , 1981 ) , the directional characteristics of words and letters ( Harcum and Filion , 1963 ; Bryden , 1966 ; 1968 ; White , 1969b ) , the number of times a stimulus is presented ( Hardyck , Tzeng and Wang , 1977 ; 1978 ; Schmuller , 1980 ) , exposure duration ( Bryden , 1965 ; Gill and McKeever , 1974 ; Beaumont and Dimond , 1975 ) , stimulus size ( Pring , 1981 ; Pitblado , 1979b ) , typeface ( Bryden and Allard , 1976 ) , complexity ( Fontenot , 1973 ) and discriminability ( Patterson and Bradshaw , 1975 ) . |
| 9 | They were n't missed — the visitors put up a great show in an English field that looked forever foreign ! |
| 10 | Shareholders might wonder why the directors built up a holding of 700 properties when all it needed was another 20 properties of the investment calibre of Oldham 's . |
| 11 | With Royal Berkshire establishing a strong lead in Area 7 , Riverside Chiswick also pulled out all the stops to move up a place above Carlton London — who sat out this round — by beating the unfortunate BBC , who remained at the foot of the table to record their first win this season . |
| 12 | But the not-so-bright can sometimes secure a place if the parents stump up a large entrance fee . |
| 13 | The investigators set up a bogus export company and contacted more than 130 Hunts . |
| 14 | The Russians , fighting desperately to hold back the German invaders , called on the Allies to set up a " second front " in Western Europe by invading France . |
| 15 | Then , just as we were about to give up , the dogs picked up a scent . |
| 16 | The set of three translational degrees of freedom for each of a set of N atoms is modified when the atoms make up a molecule . |
| 17 | The dancers sent up a spray of froth and droplets . |
| 18 | The lights came up a little , and the show was over . |
| 19 | Labour 's Coun. Bill Dixon wanted signs advising weekend shoppers about the changes put up a week before the work starts . |
| 20 | Steps which are returned at the ends take up a lot of space , but are impressive . |
| 21 | With the aid of their literary friends , the painters drew up a pamphlet to distribute to the general assembly , protesting against the chaotic hanging in previous exhibitions , and urging that the hanging committee proposed by the committee of the Salon be overthrown . |
| 22 | " Mr. James Christie intimated to the Meeting that he would move at next meeting that the Members get up a Flower and Vegetable Show sometime during this season . " |
| 23 | The great success of the Junior School prompted the Governors to set up a Preparatory Department so that boys could be admitted at the age of 5 . |
| 24 | It was of course pure selfishness , as having persuaded the Girls to take up a short-lived career which he dominated in a exceedingly paternalistic manner , he did not remain a father figure when that career was about to finish . |
| 25 | ‘ But why in hell should the police make up a story about an accident ? ’ |
| 26 | The police draw up a list of five or six people who , it is alleged , were seen in the vicinity and upon whom suspicion falls . |
| 27 | At any location on the curve the components make up a tangent vector , and this transforms according to eqn ( 5.1 ) . |
| 28 | Against the opposition of respectable male co-operators the women set up a number of successful shops of this kind . |
| 29 | The women set up a project to make cheap , home-built latrines with local materials . |
| 30 | Then the women draw up a petition and go from house to house explaining the problem and collecting signatures . |