Example sentences of "up a [noun sg] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Events are falling into place for setting up a work in Glasgow based within my home church , Queen 's Park Baptist . |
| 2 | Labour wants to set up a Parliament in Scotland , where public spending is 23 per cent . |
| 3 | There is therefore potential for such trusts to build up a stake in Newco for the benefit of employees on a much more tax-efficient basis than if employees themselves used their after-tax earnings to acquire shares and then had to pay income tax or capital gains tax when they disposed of them . |
| 4 | FUNDRAISERS have issued a cry for help in their efforts to set up a hospice in Darlington . |
| 5 | It has both acquired computer maintenance firm , Barcelona-based Morsa Mantenimiento de Ordensdores SA , which turned over $2.7m in 1991 and was also part of the Auguas de Barcelona Group , and last year , set up a subsidiary in Portugal , which it called LUMA . |
| 6 | Mountain View , California-based , Network Computing Devices , has set up a subsidiary in Munich to support German distributor sales : it has existing operations in England and France and a joint venture in Japan . |
| 7 | During the 1980s , the domestic industry opted almost exclusively to clone the DEC VAX , and when the company set up a subsidiary in Hungary in 1990 , it held off suing the key clone supplier , KFKI , in return for the firm handing over its customer lists . |
| 8 | SINGER Patty Smyth attacked two policeman after she caught them beating up a friend in New York . |
| 9 | Det Insp Gordon Williams has recently been involved with raising money to set up a suite in Darlington where child abuse and rape victims can be interviewed in pleasant surroundings . |
| 10 | The words addressed to Titius are therefore construed as setting up a trust in favour of others ; and the others happen to be the coheirs who stand to benefit from the resulting reduction in the share intended to fall to Titius . |
| 11 | Mr X sets up a trust in Jersey . |
| 12 | Simultaneously French diplomats , as part of a sustained propaganda offensive , distributed the bulletins of the Grande Armée , set up a newspaper in Poland , and in Germany influenced others in favour of France and struggled to suppress those considered hostile to the emperor . |
| 13 | It all went wrong when they discovered something up a gum-tree in Malaysia and called it gutta-percha . |
| 14 | The same thing applies when you build up a story in words . |
| 15 | The leases have brewed up a storm in Darlington as landlords say they could mean the end of many traditional pubs . |
| 16 | He went to Italy on his own and eventually made himself pick up a girl in Rome , mostly for the sake of having someone to speak his new Italian to , but she thought his intense shyness some sort of perversion and kicked him out . |
| 17 | You 're all right if you can play a musical instrument one o' these one-string fiddles , Jew 's harp , ham-bone , play the comb , or one o' these sewing-machines ( gesticulates with his hands , pedals with his feet ) ; you can stick up a board in front of you saying ‘ Ex-Service Man ’ , ‘ Hero ’ , put on a row of medals — an' you can go into any of these back streets and nobody 'll stop you . |
| 18 | Back at the Olympik , I looked up a passage in Pascal which had been in my mind earlier in the evening : |
| 19 | Today the pensioners still do not know if they are to get any of their money but the lawyers and accountants sorting out Maxwell 's affairs have so far run up a bill in excess of £30 million . |
| 20 | Mm about to set up a factory in Sri Lanka to make Morris Minor parts . |
| 21 | The municipal authorities of Barcelona , who over the past few years have acquired a great deal of experience and expertise in founding and running cultural centres , have recently signed an agreement with the Fundación Salvador Allende to collaborate in setting up a museum in Santiago , Chile , to be called the Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende . |
| 22 | Since it is now pretty clear that the Americans do intend to stay on , probably setting up a base in Bahrain , the chances of Iran joining a co-operative policing system in the near future are remote . |
| 23 | The conference agreed to set up a base in Kurdistan , including a broadcasting station . |
| 24 | GOLD bullion closed up a dollar in London helped by a pause in the dollar 's advance with an absence of fresh news . |
| 25 | Each dose stimulates a reaction to the vital force , which moves up a level in health only to be further stimulated by the following dose which matches the favourable change in the patient and remains completely homœopathic as regards symptoms and potency level . |
| 26 | ‘ My brother is but an earl , and yet you expect us to give up a king in exchange . |
| 27 | An uncommonly large crowd walked the links here yesterday , a neutral army encouraged to watch the final of the Dunhill Cup by the prospect of topping up a tan in October sunshine . |
| 28 | Conversely , if a French broker were to set up a branch in London and was subject to those more relaxed French rules , the branch would equally be at a competitive advantage as against UK firms . |
| 29 | The previous day the Yugoslavs had put up a proclamation in Klagenfurt claiming that Carinthia was part of Yugoslavia . |
| 30 | THE chairman of a committee which aims to set up a unit in Darlington for leukaemia sufferers has renewed her pledge that all money raised will be spent as originally intended . |