Example sentences of "up a [noun sg] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aung San had planned to set up a government at Moulmein , but was put off . |
| 2 | Roux and Co cook up a treat at Food Show . |
| 3 | One way would be to hold up a pencil at arm 's length and measure their relative sizes as an artist might . |
| 4 | This flowed through to earnings per share , up a half at 19.6p and shareholders receive a 25 per cent increase in the interim dividend to 2.7p . |
| 5 | He then became registrar at Leeds General Infirmary , before taking up a fellowship at Harvard Medical School , where he did research into organ transplants . |
| 6 | The taxi driver , aged 63 , picked up a fare at Witham railway station at about 1.30pm yesterday and was directed to Munro Road . |
| 7 | And then it eased up a bit at dinner time and then it started again about two o'clock . |
| 8 | The veteran Eire international is careful not to be drawn into a new slanging match with Ferguson — but one of those reasons must be to show the United manager that he is not a crippled has-been , better equipped propping up a bar than shoring up a defence at football 's highest level . |
| 9 | A company which claims to train a third of all motorcyclists in the country could be setting up a school at Langbaurgh 's Wheelbase complex at South Bank after winning council support . |
| 10 | Dr. Steve Barnett resigned his GEC research fellowship in Engineering to take up a lectureship at King 's College , London . |
| 11 | Hold up a finger at arm's-length , close one eye , and line your finger up with a picture or some other convenient object some way away . |
| 12 | He brought the model of a French oil-mill to England , and set up a copy at Kingswood in 1605 . |
| 13 | Add to that a steamer trunk full of footwear , a stack of rather lavish hatboxes ( occupied ) and enough jewellery to start up a stall at St George 's market , and you get the idea that Pat just might be an out and out fashion fanatic . |
| 14 | YOU can pick up a bargain at Arsenal . |
| 15 | Stuart and Alice will be making their home in Reigate where Stuart had taken up a post at St. Mary 's . |
| 16 | Williams had gone to take up a post at Howard University , where at the age of 28 , he began what would become a meteoric rise through the halls of academia , ( Associate Professor in 1946 , at the age of 35 ) . |
| 17 | He started work at the Stationers ' Company School , London , in 1874 , and by the time he took up a post at Grantham Grammar School in 1884 he had already taught in Saffron Walden , Winchester , Newbury , and Cambridge . |
| 18 | THE new British motor racing season moves up a gear at Silverstone today with the first big meeting of the year — and five young Ulster drivers will be part of it . |
| 19 | He held rival services until his return to Britain in 1852 to take up a stipend at Lee in Lincoln , when he was succeeded at the Beco Chapel by a Mr Hossmer . |
| 20 | PETER Stefanini , managing director of Anglo United subsidiary Coalite Chemicals , is leaving to take up a directorship at Croda International . |
| 21 | Could it be supposed that it would be more impossible for God to raise up a body at Resurrection , if needs be , out of elementary particles , which had been liberated by burning , than it would be to raise up a body from dust ? ’ |
| 22 | But erm it 's quite hard if you 've been up a lot at night and then you have to go and do the whole of the next day of work , but fortunately our rotas are n't too bad so we 're never on two nights in a row compared with the hospital which was quite a lot harder work . |
| 23 | Other insurers were generally firmer in the wake of Prudential 's results with Commercial Union 3p higher at 608p and General Accident up a penny at 669p and Guardian Royal 3p firmer at 219p . |
| 24 | WHEN LASMO Pakistan 's Mujadid Ali arrived in London in September 1991 to take up a place at London University , his first priority was concerned with degrees Fahrenheit rather than degrees academic . |
| 25 | As to what would have happened without the event of the accident in her A level year by way of results , I regret I have to find as a fact that she would not in the year of her accident , have achieved the grades necessary for her to take up a place at Norwich City College . |
| 26 | The shrewd parent now gets our free starter pack for their son or daughter when they take up a place at Manor Park . |
| 27 | And as a little extra , the whole family is remembered through the generosity of the school 's industrial ‘ twin ’ — Triton plc , Britain 's leading shower manufacturer — which offers £10 cash back for every Triton shower purchased at Payless DIY , Nuneaton when your child takes up a place at Manor Park . |
| 28 | Mooney has received a onematch suspension for reaching 21 disciplinary points this season after picking up a booking at Carlisle 12 days ago . |