Example sentences of "from [verb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Against this , many who take the plunge derive enormous satisfaction from building up a family enterprise . |
| 2 | Conran has never allowed his job to become mere routine and there is no doubt in his mind about the satisfaction he has derived from building up a business empire . |
| 3 | Uniformity of policy throughout Europe would have prevented us from building up the strength of the City of London . |
| 4 | electricity board owed a duty of care to an intelligent teenage boy to ensure that he was effectively prevented from climbing up a pole-mounted , high voltage electrical installation . |
| 5 | There were no regulations to prevent people from walking up the Balmoral side of the mountain when the Queen was not staying at the castle , and Richard had chosen a long ascent from the Balmoral side for the sake of privacy . |
| 6 | In New Zealand 's ’ King Country' — so called because of the Maori kings who fought a guerrilla war against the settling English — Maori lads fresh from rounding up the droves of merino sheep from the bush clad hills would have a night out in the one horse town and go to the fleapit . |
| 7 | This additional information can be very useful indeed in saving the researcher from looking up an article which sounds as if it would be useful from the title , but which , in fact , is not relevant to one 's particular interest . |
| 8 | ‘ Prime Minister out for a duck , ’ he muttered as he drew back from picking up a china duck at an Accrington factory . |
| 9 | He arrived home from picking up the Sunday morning bagels and the lad from Sunday school , to find his study full of arc lamps and white coats , and to have his sleeve wrenched unceremoniously up and a needle shoved in his vein . |
| 10 | When we got to the pub my hands were so swollen and red from picking up the jug and throwing it all day I could barely pick up a pint to drink . ’ |
| 11 | Master butcher Howard Callaghan returned from picking up an award for a pork window display to discover the plate glass front of the shop blown away . |
| 12 | The 20-year-old beauty consultant was released yesterday after five days behind bars for breaking an injunction banning her from pumping up the volume . |
| 13 | This is not helped by the suspicion that a preoccupation with Europe is distracting the Government from cleaning up the mess on its own doorstep . |
| 14 | Before that , tin extraction followed either from metal ‘ streaming ’ — collecting tin deposits from rivers , the flow of the water doing a reasonable job in separating the heavy tin particles from the soil — or from shovelling up the ore from lodes exposed to the surface . |
| 15 | The truce of 1921 was attacked as a typical piece of Lloyd George chicanery , and it needed all the efforts of the party leaders to stop the party from breaking up the government there and then . |
| 16 | Apart from propping up the Senate , Bonn has for decades provided lavish incentives for business and individuals to stay in , or move to , west Berlin . |
| 17 | Ford 's watertight performance prevented big guns Burnley from running up a cricket score against McHale 's men . |
| 18 | Plant the waterlily with just the ‘ nose ’ , or growing point , protruding above the soil and then cover the surface of the basket with a generous layer of pea gravel to prevent the fish from stirring up the mud . |
| 19 | Some pool owners plant their submerged plants in containers full of pea gravel , but trays or proper planting containers of good clean heavy soil , topped off with a generous layer of pea gravel to prevent fish from stirring up the mud and fouling the water , are best . |
| 20 | Is it any different from giving up a liberty to smoke ? |
| 21 | Far from giving up the ghost , Mr Jones now tours the world with his ‘ Absolut Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company ’ , staging his late companion 's choreographies , dancing , even getting into debates with local Roman Catholic clergymen about the use of condoms . |
| 22 | Dropping six of the eight singles points proved their undoing against France , losing 7-4 , while they never recovered from giving up the foursomes to the Italians . |
| 23 | Drifting into the Colonial Office because deafness prevented him from taking up a career in the regular army , he brought with him a romantic conception of empire stimulated in the first instance by Kitchener 's Omdurman campaign and encouraged with appropriate reading matter by his father . |
| 24 | Anti-smoking campaigns conducted in the 1970's were not generally successful in preventing children from taking up the habit although pupils ' awareness of the associated health risks was improved [ 3 ] . |
| 25 | The Smoking units hopes to discourage pupils from taking up the habit , with the obvious obverse of encouraging our smokers to consider seriously giving it up . |
| 26 | Also in 1834 , his supposed misdemeanours forgiven and his contribution to Canada already recognised , he was appointed Superintendent of the British America Land Company , formed to develop the eastern lands of Quebec but bad health prevented him from taking up the appointment . |
| 27 | In Washington , the administration has now let it be known that it will work for the softening of the amendment 's consequences , provided — and forgetting Kosovo for the moment — that Stipe Mesic , a Croat , is no longer obstructed by the Serbs from taking up the post of chairman ( for one year ) of Yugoslavia 's eight-member presidency . |
| 28 | And I should say to the general assembly that the Board 's four homes for people with senile dementia are differently funded and any deficits there are made up by grants from health boards and social work departments which are prohibited from making up the deficit in eventide care . |
| 29 | Up until now there is no law preventing anyone from setting up a cable TV network , and the cable operator pays nothing to Star or any other channel . |
| 30 | The following might be regarded as excessive restrictions : ( 1 ) an attempt to prevent a qualified solicitor from setting up a specialist practice in a field in which his former firm has never before undertaken work and has no plans to start accepting instructions ; ( 2 ) an attempt to prevent an outgoing partner from accepting instructions from any person or firm ( whether or not a client or former client of his former firm ) within a prescribed area ; ( 3 ) a general area restraint where the outgoing partner 's former firm has its offices in a location where competition is already intense . |