Example sentences of "up a [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Secretary led them up a marble staircase , to the first floor ; then along a lofty corridor with a moulded cornice , to the back of the building . |
| 2 | How can anyone dream up a handicap system whereby my handicap can go up because somebody else scored a net 65 ? |
| 3 | They walked and walked , at first along tiled and bleakly lit corridors under electric lighting , and then along dusty carpets in dark shuttered places , and up a stone staircase and then further up a winding wooden stair , cloudy with dark dust . |
| 4 | She led her up a stone staircase into a small room where Brownies were sitting on wooden toadstools . |
| 5 | There are caves which seem to We went into the caverns and erm saw the petrified caves where they , the water drip on objects and however many years they build up a stone coating . |
| 6 | It is not difficult to set up a holiday firm and expand rapidly . |
| 7 | ACT can also generate additional objects to create customised products — the group will ‘ effectively make up a bespoke product , assemble a bespoke suit to fit each client ’ . |
| 8 | Draw up a life table for a cohort of 5000 students showing , for each year of study , the probability of leaving and the expected remaining stay calculated on the assumption that one-tenth of the leavers in any year depart at random times during the year and the remainder go at the end of that year . |
| 9 | As public shopping arcades lend themselves to situations of abuse it is important that they have somewhere warm to go ; one example of a voluntary initiative is that Bradford Council of Mosques has set up a day centre for retired older men . |
| 10 | He gives up a day job to write down the stories — of the Secret Mountain , the Sound that could be Seen , the Slow Children and the Magic Duvet — that he once told for free to a rabble of offspring and other kin and friends . |
| 11 | He drew up a work schedule dedicated ‘ to providing holes which would be reachable with two good shots , when the ground is soft and there is little or no run , rather than cater as regards length for the summer conditions ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ We have sent those guidelines to the other two trusts and are setting up a work party involving all three trusts to improve the way we deal with those cases and improve communications . ’ |
| 13 | His first major field research was among the Nupe people of Northern Nigeria , and on his second field research period there , 1935-36 , he wrote up a work journal which has never been published . |
| 14 | Lee had suddenly stopped in the middle of washing up a pottery casserole dish , quietly placed it on the draining-board and sat down on the kitchen floor . |
| 15 | It seems the piece they took was holding up a window sash . |
| 16 | He set up a Press release and organised a Press Announcement to be made in London at The Natural History Museum . |
| 17 | In 1962 , the Royal Commission on the Press recommended that there should be set up a Press Amalgamations Court , like the Restrictive Practices Court , consisting of judges of the High Court and lay members appointed on the recommendation of the Lord Chancellor after consultation with the Trades Union Congress and the Press Council . |
| 18 | Community Campus are working with Centrepoint Soho to set up a Return Home project in Middlesbrough . |
| 19 | Ever wish you could make up a degree course to suit your own needs ? |
| 20 | The object was to prevent takeover by a rival paper , or even by a consortium of people opposed to NoS and its politics which might try to build up a majority shareholding . |
| 21 | I gave them as long as I dared before cutting up a newsprint lorry and following them . |
| 22 | It is available from SIB which has also set up a Home Income Scheme Help Desk . |
| 23 | As Lesley Bell , director of Joint Initiative for Community Care , says : ‘ It is absolutely crazy that anyone can set up a home care agency with no form of regulation whatsoever . |
| 24 | Although law reform was at hand , the government found it politic in 1977 to set up a Home Office Committee on Obscenity , Indecency , Violence and Film Censorship under the Chairmanship of the Cambridge Professor of Philosophy , Bernard Williams . |
| 25 | In answer to my office colleagues who saw me manhandling a hopper-shaped device into my car boot the other week : no , I was not setting up a home distillery , merely preparing to field-test a pond filter . |
| 26 | In setting up a home routine , we can in fact forgo the opportunity to make intelligent choices by responding to certain kinds of pressure . |
| 27 | It was the first UK brewer to set up a home sales division and was for years undisputed leader in this field . |
| 28 | In addition , Sun struck up a development relationship with Xerox Corp 's Palo Alto Research Centre to produce a brand new high-speed packet-switching Xdbus for Dragon doing 640Mb per-second peak and 500Mb per-second sustained . |
| 29 | This breadth of preparing for and following up a development plan should then , suggests the Project Team , be broken down into detailed action plans with specific targets for the following year . |
| 30 | The FLA should draw up a development plan with every Football League club to bring its ground up to scratch over an agreed time period . |