Example sentences of "up the [noun] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been postulated that it was either the dinosaurs that opened up the way for the angiosperms , or instead it was the changing nature of the flora itself that was in some way the prime mover of evolutionary trends ; that , in spite of all the advances in jaw structure discussed above , they somehow speeded up trends towards extinction . |
| 2 | Well I gets him pulled out of the ditch and I brings him down and it 's the time I , I had Sarah boil up the boiler for the pigs . |
| 3 | In 1904 Tansley and William Smith set up the Committee for the Survey and Study of British Vegetation , later known as the British Vegetation Committee . |
| 4 | The abrupt cut can be softened by a lap dissolve , originally done by gradually closing down the iris on the lens ( a fade-out ) , winding back the film and then opening up the iris for the same length of time and film ( a fade-in ) . |
| 5 | Some stories say the scribe who drew up the document for the Queen Regent was a Madeiran and that he deliberately forgot to include Madeira . |
| 6 | Professor Khan had been a crucial cog in the great mesh of wheels that made up the whole for the creation of an Iraqi nuclear warhead . |
| 7 | Indeed those who drew up the blue-print for the Common Market in the 1956 Spaak Report sought to make available to Europeans those advantages so long enjoyed by US manufacturers in the USA 's single market . |
| 8 | In part two : Heavy going : Weighing up the competition for the Boat Race . |
| 9 | I had looked up the directions for the Pan-Am Highway at the hotel . |
| 10 | I can not resist saying that when Japan finally exchanges her peaceful simplicity , her admiration for , and artistic appreciation of , Nature 's beauties , and her contented national life , for the storm stress , and hurry of that feverish existence known to the West , she will have given up the substance for the shadow . |
| 11 | Under preparation for three years , the bill set up the framework for the legal operation of private radio and television stations and for an independent public broadcasting system . |
| 12 | The King of Prussia kept up a desperate defensive campaign against his other main enemies , Austria and Russia ; Britain contributed to this struggle not only by keeping up the army for the defence of Hanover and western Germany but also by supplying money , first as loans and then about £3m. in grants , to keep the Prussian army going . |
| 13 | Jane made up the basket for the bridesmaid from a sweet and innocent mixture of soft pink roses , sweet peas ( the pink and mauve ‘ Painted Lady ’ and the blue ‘ Countess Cadogan ’ ) , small sprays of pink larkspur , pink marguerites and the miniature Victorian gladiolus ‘ The Bride ’ . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , Fielding promised , he would hire the loft or the studio and line up the auditioning for the bit parts — the waiters , the dancers , the gangsters . |
| 15 | There was the trust deed of the church school , St Benet 's , founded in 1860 and , of more recent date , a copy of a well-phrased vituperative complaint to the Archdeacon from the People 's Warden about Marr 's digging up the Church for the central heating . |
| 16 | Erm fact that you set up the scene for the introductions and you asked for it that you , you know , took and reduced those people to an image of which was good . |
| 17 | It would require suicidal altruism to take up the cudgels for the Palestinians . |
| 18 | In 1985 , it set up the Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian and Gay Issues . |
| 19 | Believing that artisans should be well housed , his last initiative was to set up the Society for the Promotion of Industrial Villages in 1884 . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've given up the cello for the moment , ’ said Finch . |
| 21 | ‘ Whoever put up the money for the scheme has made a fortune . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , she did put up the money for the construction of Roshanara Bagh , a pleasure garden on the far outskirts of Shahjehanabad . |
| 23 | ‘ Mr Shah , who put up the money for the school , is a Wimbledon Dharjee . |
| 24 | At the rate things were going Meredith could swallow up the budget for the entire year before the season was a quarter way through . |
| 25 | Then , feeling utterly defeated , she went mechanically through the routine of locking up the cottage for the night and plodded upstairs . |
| 26 | The Old Stager summed up the problem for the benefit of the nine team members within earshot . |
| 27 | It is becoming a tradition in our family ( extended by friends ) to do a fairly long walk between Christmas and the New Year , to walk off some of the effects of the turkey and tone up the system for the usual see-the-New- Year-in celebrations . |
| 28 | But perhaps this best sums up the case for the prosecution . |
| 29 | Ian Rush , who enjoyed Rosenthal 's attacking company after his frustrating lone furrow against Spartak Moscow , summed up the case for the Israeli 's defence when he said : ‘ Sometimes I do n't think Ronny knows what he 's doing so defenders certainly are n't going to know . ’ |
| 30 | I objected in Committee and in the House tonight to his implication — it was not stated in so many words — that the £780 million would be paid locally by the other people in the area picking up the bill for the single-person households . |