Example sentences of "to [verb] up [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Company devoted itself to building up a substantial trade in pepper which , while not as valuable as the most expensive products of the Spice Islands like nutmeg and cloves , still commanded a very steady market in Europe . |
| 2 | He had provided merely skimpy further details of the first two pilots , dedicating his greatest effort to building up a detailed profile of Mikhail Vologsky . |
| 3 | You 're also prone to dredging up the wounding words and cutting critiques others have directed at you recently . |
| 4 | It is a familiar , yet penetrating , criticism of free market economies that the imperatives companies face to satisfy the adolescent greed of the financial markets and the escalating expectations of shareholders — or else prepare for predators — has diminished the scope of strategic planning to buffing up the next set of interims . |
| 5 | The features cover everything from the environment to business , from shutting down a nuclear power station , to opening up a red-hot Mexican restaurant . |
| 6 | It agreed to draw on creative Marxism and other traditions and transform itself into an empowering organisation in order to contribute to opening up the new political formulations that will be needed across Europe in the post cold-war era . |
| 7 | In addition to opening up the northern prairies , it produced a land boom in northern British Columbia , where land values rose from 50 cents an acre to 30–60 dollars an acre in the space of a few years , and created a new Pacific port at Prince Rupert , 500 miles north of Vancouver , a new town where the population reached 5,000 in the space of two years . |
| 8 | There was only one person to whom Jerome would be reporting with so much fervour ; Bénezet , naturally curious about anything that might serve his turn or redound to his profit , was not averse to picking up a few crumbs of useful information by the way . |
| 9 | The process is consequently one more akin to topping up the various activity boxes with water , with flows being initiated from one to another once selected levels have been achieved . |
| 10 | Since the acquisition of beautiful paintings and objects became one of the ways to clambering up the slippery social slopes this sort of chatter has become jet-propelled . |
| 11 | And the final year of the company 's three-year commitment to cleaning up the Alaskan coast is about to begin . |
| 12 | Cheaper alternatives to turning up the central heating are to do a brief bout of gentle exercise , which increases body heat from the inside , or to wrap up well , which reduces loss to the outside . |
| 13 | Use these for all sorts of things from training the software to recognize your handwriting , to calling up an on-screen keyboard when your calligraphic skills fail completely . |
| 14 | In addition to tightening up the compulsory admission and detention procedures , the new Act tries to deal with the difficult issue of consent to treatment . |
| 15 | Except , more often than not , the Second Mrs Tanqueray reveals herself to be a carbon-copy of the first one in almost every way but one and that 's only until the new Tanqueray brood arrives , whereupon Lothario takes to ringing up the first Mrs T to say ‘ Where did we go wrong ? ’ |
| 16 | The Japanese government , which also strongly supported a return to commercial whaling , announced that it was holding talks with Russia and South Korea with a view to setting up a similar organization for " rational exploitation " of marine mammals in the north Pacific . |
| 17 | Benelux , for instance , had already moved forward to setting up a low common external tariff with no internal tariffs . |
| 18 | These are average changes within the normal speed operating range , but , using this method , you will have a reasonable guide to setting up a certain performance . |
| 19 | When I began these big fish articles for PFK , I wanted to demonstrate that something a little different could be kept at little or no extra cost to setting up a comparatively-sized community tank . |
| 20 | THE first meeting with a view to setting up a Welsh Rural Products Institute is to take place at Ladywell House , Newtown , on Friday . |
| 21 | Any questions of general interest are also answered on this page , In the last month I have given advice on queries ranging from where to buy exactly the right picture hook to setting up a framing project group in a school . |
| 22 | After the Rayner Report in 1981 , we were party to discussions with Sir John Boreham , the then Head of the Government Statistical Service , and others with a view to setting up a National Statistics Council . |
| 23 | Finally , RACs should be asked to consider what the paper inelegantly described as ‘ resource availability and future coordination in respect of training for education management ’ , and consideration should be given to setting up a national advisory and consultative group . |
| 24 | The principal effort to date has been directed to setting up the operational structure , preparing marketing material , and general business development , including joint ventures with partners in industry . |
| 25 | In August , as the first step to setting up an Islamic government in Harar , he peremptorily recalled its Governor , Dedjazmatch Tafari . |
| 26 | If there is any standard criterion today of what constitutes a nation with a claim to self-determination , meaning to setting up an independent territorial nation-state , it is ethnic-linguistic , since language is taken , wherever possible , to express and symbolise ethnicity . |
| 27 | He added : ‘ If Ian Lang is telling the truth in saying there is nothing political about the Government 's proposals then there is now good reason to think seriously about cancelling the reorganisation and instead giving consideration to setting up an independent commission . ’ |
| 28 | Some of the top soil is so acidic that no tree can survive and the Government has resorted to digging up the affected soil and replacing it with fresh stocks . |
| 29 | The point is that preference rules give a justification for choosing any well-formed grouping structure which the circumstances of the text seem to warrant ; they provide a guide to weighing up the various claims of syntax , informational focus , prosodic shape and so on . |