Example sentences of "up [art] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.

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1 Mike Evans , Managing Director of Pacplas , summed up the judges ' view : ‘ First , they 've achieved a great deal and the spirit of the team means they 'll get better and better .
2 In this current project , two studies are being carried out which should provide the next stage for following up the researchers ' first cohort of 1981 entrants .
3 The summer term , following the practice was then used to follow up the students ' own interests ; to deal with examinations ( both school and public ) and advanced level work .
4 I like to think that we in the Met Office did our little bit towards keeping up the boys ' spirits .
5 Although the Empress submitted momentarily , divisions within the nobility enabled her to tear up the councillors ' terms .
6 Serendipity translates as the Gipsy Kings flamencoing up The Eagles ' ‘ Hotel California ’ , Javetta Steel 's gospel rendition of ‘ I 'd Like To Teach The World To Sing ’ and the classical renegades Kronos Quartet 's remarkably sympathetic ‘ Marquee Moon ’ .
7 Serendipity translates as the Gipsy Kings flamencoing up The Eagles ' ‘ Hotel California ’ , Javetta Steel 's gospel rendition of ‘ I 'd Like To Teach The World To Sing ’ and the classical renegades Kronos Quartet 's remarkably sympathetic ‘ Marquee Moon ’ .
8 When the factory started up the women 's group dissipated .
9 But will the arrival of baby number four signal that the time is right to ‘ hang up the booties ' once and for all ?
10 Bob Groves insisted there ought to be a public inquiry into the proposal , and called on Chelmsford Tory MP Simon Burns to take up the residents ' cause : they were less than happy with the MP 's response to date .
11 The people who suffer if they are broken are not the owners , the shareholders or the board of directors , but those who work in the industry — people who have given their lives to that industry , built up the companies ' assets and made them into going concerns attractive for privatisation .
12 The kitchen with a small staff cooked or warmed up the men 's food free of charge .
13 They also smashed up the peasants ' illicit vodka stills .
14 They then see how far the water comes up the dolls ' legs .
15 The coach which picked up the Cedars ' children stopped about five minutes ' walk away from their home .
16 Then Davide 's father brought up the Socialists ' opposition to the war , which Tommaso scorned ; and the talk of money resumed .
17 The lacewing 's ears are at the base of each forewing , and cause the wings to fold whenever they pick up the bats ' echolocating sounds .
18 We in the North owe him a considerable debt for the enthusiasm and perception he has shown in building up the schools ' collection of works of art now owned by the County Council .
19 The males are also known to ‘ rape ’ other males , cementing up the victims ' genital openings to render them incapable of copulation .
20 SACHA GIVARSI looked up the children 's TV presenters of the Sixties and Seventies to find out if they were still young at heart .
21 In southern India The Body Shop has provided the means to set up a boys ' town for destitute youngsters .
22 On receiving an assurance from the guardians that they would lose no time in putting up a nurses ' home , the Minister would be prepared to recommend the Nursing Council to give its approval .
23 Knowing that mere seconds might mean the difference between life and death for the hundreds of people trapped by the explosions , IMDEC responded immediately by setting up a citizens ' coordinating committee , drawing on the expertise and resources of 27 social and human rights organisations .
24 Scattered through the policy review are proposals to : Drastically alter the status and organisation of the Department of Trade and Industry ; Create two departments — a Department of Consumer Affairs , and a Department for Legal Administration ; Create a Department of Environmental Protection within the existing Department of the Environment ; Set up a plethora of new commissions and executive agencies ; Set up a Women 's Ministry .
25 Then for a couple of years she helped set up a women 's bookshop and café run on high but unmanageable collective principles .
26 Although unfortunately details of the projects are tantalizingly hard to ascertain , at least two attempts were made after 1888 by the Edinburgh Typographical Society to set up a women 's union , The first , in the late 1880s , is referred to only in the retrospective " statement on the Female Question " , published in 1904 ; Miss Black of London [ who must have been Clementina Black ] a lady who was well-known for her efforts to improve the social condition of her sex , offered to make an endeavour to organise the female compositors in Edinburgh , with a view to remedying the evils complained of by the journeymen .
27 Hesitantly at first , and in the face of some opposition , the male union leadership , in consultation with the women , decided to set up a women 's section of the ETS instead of pursuing the strategy of recruiting the remaining women compositors into the Warehousemen and Cutters " Union .
28 And er I think i we thought from that well why not set up a women 's support group and er see what the reaction was really from from the women you know and an I and we said in that lodge meeting will you ask everybody all the women that you know that er are involved , the friends the girlfriends and wives , to come along the next Tuesday and we 'd have a meeting of our own .
29 Now the editors have picked out some plums to make up a poets ' special - from Eliot and Auden , through Allen Ginsberg ( 'I think it was about the same time that I was having these Blake visions ' ) to John Ashbery and the delightful Elizabeth Bishop .
30 Dolly had stirred up a hornets ' nest when she pinched the wallet , and he had n't made it any better by steaming the letter open .
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