Example sentences of "up a [noun sg] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The words addressed to Titius are therefore construed as setting up a trust in favour of others ; and the others happen to be the coheirs who stand to benefit from the resulting reduction in the share intended to fall to Titius . |
| 2 | You 're all right if you can play a musical instrument one o' these one-string fiddles , Jew 's harp , ham-bone , play the comb , or one o' these sewing-machines ( gesticulates with his hands , pedals with his feet ) ; you can stick up a board in front of you saying ‘ Ex-Service Man ’ , ‘ Hero ’ , put on a row of medals — an' you can go into any of these back streets and nobody 'll stop you . |
| 3 | Today the pensioners still do not know if they are to get any of their money but the lawyers and accountants sorting out Maxwell 's affairs have so far run up a bill in excess of £30 million . |
| 4 | Each dose stimulates a reaction to the vital force , which moves up a level in health only to be further stimulated by the following dose which matches the favourable change in the patient and remains completely homœopathic as regards symptoms and potency level . |
| 5 | ‘ My brother is but an earl , and yet you expect us to give up a king in exchange . |
| 6 | Mr McWhirter had shuffled in , looking like a morose vagrant , some ten minutes late , and had taken up a position in front of the fire . |
| 7 | Bremner is one of many Scottish players who made a remarkable transformation when he took up a career in management . |
| 8 | Hunt , who gave up a career in medicine to be a racing driver in 1967 , was given his chance by Lord Hesketh , the British peer who ran his own motor racing team . |
| 9 | The management would put up a screen in front of them and provide the audience with bad eggs and moldy tomatoes to pelt them with . ’ |
| 10 | The federal public prosecutor 's office began an investigation into the right-wing Nationalist Front , based in Detmold ( western Germany ) , and the Ku Klux Klan , which was thought to have set up a chapter in North Rhine-Westphalia . |
| 11 | A milkman who set up a round in competition with his old dairy firm has won a legal battle to continue his business for the time being . |
| 12 | Riot police broke up a demonstration in protest at the government 's response but most teachers returned to work when the schools reopened on March 5 . |
| 13 | Following a recommendation from Surrey Teachers we are setting up a fund in memory of Ann McMillan , whose untimely death last July shocked everyone . |
| 14 | Middlesbrough Town Hall RIDE grew up a lot in public in 1990 a year when bands like themselves and the Charlatans made it very big , very quickly . |
| 15 | ‘ He beat up a woman in custody . ’ |
| 16 | Want to set up a table in document ? |
| 17 | CALL sets up a table in RAM containing details of the parameters . |
| 18 | The client has now taken up an appointment in computing . |
| 19 | When the war ended in 1813 , he returned to New York and took up an appointment in charge of the design and construction of ships for the U.S. Navy in its Brooklyn yard . |