Example sentences of "to [verb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Church has not always recognised their rights to spiritual growth nor the contribution that they can make to building up the body of Christ . |
| 2 | De La Rousselière , newly promoted lieut. -colonel , was set to drawing up a plan of attack . |
| 3 | IBM Corp 's quest for a new chief executive appears to be narrowing , but you pays your money and you takes your choice when it comes to drawing up a list of front-runners — US PC Week reckons that the company will go for a chairman from outside and suggests Paul Stern and Perot Systems Corp chairman Morton Meyerson as the front-runners , with an internal chief executive , putting its money on Ellen Hancock and Bernard Puckett , but the Reuter shortlist is quite different , and has Lawrence Bossidy , chairman of Allied-Signal Corp out front , saying he has visited Armonk at least three or four times , Paul Stern is in there again , and John Sculley is back in the picture , with one source quoted as saying ‘ The rumour is that Sculley is acting quite disinterested , but his travel plans include going to the East Coast quite a bit ; ’ Reuter 's other possible contender is Michael Armstrong , who left only last year . |
| 4 | The university appointed a new appeal committee with a view to speeding up the hearing . |
| 5 | Apart from his emotional objection to bringing up a child which was not their own , there was another consideration , one which he hoped to keep from his wife . |
| 6 | My grandfather had died early , so she was used to bringing up a family on her own . |
| 7 | Bilijana , 26 , was looking forward to bringing up a family in their comfortable Sarajevo home . |
| 8 | A stupid game dedicated to shoring up the notion that they did not want to play together . |
| 9 | On the other , he could have devoted his energies to shoring up the regime 's prestige , authority and ability to maintain order . |
| 10 | It was a turning point for the business and set Thomas Cook on the road to opening up the world to men and women who had not dreamed of travelling before . |
| 11 | It was perhaps even more alarming to learn that the Distant Early Warning System , the chain of radar stations ringing the Soviet Union from Greenland to Alaska , had more than once given the alarm which put Strategic Air Command into the air en route to the target thanks to picking up a moon echo or a flock of geese migrating in formation . |
| 12 | And bamboo is such a vigorous grower , a visit here can bring a whole new meaning to picking up a pot plant . |
| 13 | But a major difficulty remains : SSDs will be reluctant to commit themselves to picking up the bill for several months ' residential rehabilitation for someone who may have arrived in the area the previous week . |
| 14 | Up to 50 images can be stored at once and if that is not enough , you can always transfer the images to an Apple Powerbook to make more space — a bit of a culture shock for anyone used to filling up a camera bag with film and dashing off to the nearest photo lab . |
| 15 | Erm your time was made up , it was then applied to the sheet you know , and , and there was hardly any er personal allocation you know , of , of duty in regard to filling up the timesheets . |
| 16 | Architect Mr. E. Ravenscroft , was instructed to drawn up a £1,000 scheme and Mr. Mardon paid £10 towards his fees . |
| 17 | As an aside , the need to drawn up a will becomes particularly pressing if there are children to be considered , and do n't forget that marriage revokes the will of either partner , unless that is , it was drawn up in anticipation of the wedding . |
| 18 | Once we have agreed the contents with him we will be in a position to drawn up a Phase 1 contract in which we intend to concentrate on making the sanctuary wind and watertight that will allow us to begin work on the interior alterations . |
| 19 | It is also important to drawn up a job description , and that will take up senior management resources , to consider the job requirements and the profile of the ideal candidate . |
| 20 | We should give thought to cleaning up the environment generally . |
| 21 | When it comes to cleaning up the environment , it is said that ‘ the polluter pays ’ … but who is the polluter ? |
| 22 | Any more than I give more than an irritated passing thought to turning up a heater when the temperature drops . |
| 23 | ‘ They 'll give us the extra numbers we 'll need , when it comes to roundin' up the rest of these Triad Jesus freaks . |
| 24 | Eccleshall , from a scenic village north-west of the county town , are more accustomed to propping up the league than heading it . |
| 25 | Combined operations became the commando 's métier and he would become as accustomed to calling up a battleship 's gunnery officer or the leader of a flight of rocket firing Typhoon aircraft as he might be radioing for mortar fire from his own Heavy Weapons Troop . |
| 26 | Her comments on interest rates had little impact on financial markets but they appeared to underscore the Government 's commitment to holding up the pound . |
| 27 | You may have a good deal of ups and downs and hard work ahead of you , but sweating on a ridge is , in my opinion , far preferable to plodding up a hillside or toiling along a zig-zag path to a top . |
| 28 | In 1978 , Elliott approached Branson with a view to tying up a New York version of Time Out with Virgin 's American office . |
| 29 | You ought to liven up a bit ! |
| 30 | Comrade Springer tries to liven up the party |