Example sentences of "on [verb] up [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The work undertaken is concentrated on building up a unique collection and source of information on the economy of Norwich and the surrounding area , with particular reference to the changing structure of employment , which will continue to accumulate and grow , after this project is completed , with minimal input . |
| 2 | John Stork , until recently also an entirely British-owned search firm , has established a significant niche in the British headhunting business but , unlike GKR , it has concentrated less on building up a large volume of business in London and more on expanding into Europe . |
| 3 | ‘ But we have got to spend considerably more effort on opening up a two-way dialogue . |
| 4 | There are still a great many old-stagers who still insist on keeping up the old style — 13th January . |
| 5 | It seems that we would be much better off if we spent money not on constructing a barrage but on cleaning up the various sewage works that I have castigated over the years . |
| 6 | In the course of doing so money will have to be spent on cleaning up the Six ( and , no doubt , eventually , the Soviet Union , too ) to ensure that they make respectable cohabitants of the new Europe which various leaders from Gorbachev to Delors to François Mitterrand have envisaged . |
| 7 | He was formerly the general secretary of the Electrical Trades Union , though ( like Citrine ) he had had to resign his union post on taking up the new managerial appointment . |
| 8 | It did not challenge the essentials of the system between the wars but concentrated on edging up the maximum wage and stressing the benefits of belonging to a mutual aid society for sickness or injury . |
| 9 | Ironically , there is no inhibition on digging up an old acquittal . |
| 10 | The National Confederation of Parent Teacher Associations offer a useful leaflet on setting up a new group and will also provide a draft constitution . |
| 11 | Agreement was reached on setting up a joint commission of experts to deal with minority questions and on working towards guaranteeing minority rights . |
| 12 | An accord was signed on setting up a joint economic co-operation commission , and another agreement was initialled on investment promotion and protection . |
| 13 | Q. In your series on setting up a marine aquarium you did not include an actinic blue tube when adding inverts . |
| 14 | In order to counteract the difficulties inherent in having long gaps between training days , future plans are hinging on setting up a weekly evening course at a venue further out of London ( yet to be found , but if possible easily accessible from the M25 ) . |
| 15 | You can follow our step-by-step guides on setting up an attractive catfish community , successfully breeding killifish , and converting a tropical community set-up to marine . |
| 16 | The UN 's outer-space division wants to spend $500000 next year on schemes for training and also on setting up an advisory service for Third World space engineers . |
| 17 | Major and his Chinese counterpart , Li Peng , also made progress on setting up an independent court of appeal in Hong Kong , on the colony 's right to negotiate trade investment agreements , and on agreement over land controlled by the UK military . |
| 18 | All language is morally loaded ( one campaigner 's unborn child is another 's clump of cells ) but those who would trick the public by the term pre-embryo should be prepared to concentrate on the moral status of the early embryo , not on dreaming up a new vocabulary . |