Example sentences of "up a [noun sg] in " in BNC.

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1 She then picks up a stone in her jaws and , vibrating her head at high speed , bangs down the soil .
2 Events are falling into place for setting up a work in Glasgow based within my home church , Queen 's Park Baptist .
3 She trailed off dismally , knowing that Monica was not capable of flinging up a window in an empty house and climbing in to have a look , and that , very likely , her husband was the same .
4 Labour wants to set up a Parliament in Scotland , where public spending is 23 per cent .
5 It is thought that the defence is most relevant in the context of take-overs where a merchant bank may build up a stake in a target company for a prospective bidder .
6 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 .
7 ( 3 ) Building up a stake in the target prior to making an offer or during the course of an offer may be considered .
8 They decided to set up a nursery in the house and objections by Renfrew District Council were overcome .
9 A statement may be made in writing , orally or even by contract , for example , by making the goods tell a lie about themselves as in the case where the seller patched up a crack in the barrel of a cannon so as to make it appear unfractured , Horsfall v. Thomas ( 1862 ) .
10 When Cheddar was finally reached at about ten o'clock , no one would take them in , until an innkeeper had pity on them and made up a bed in the garret .
11 have made you up a bed in the spare room I
12 I 'll find some sheets presently and you can make up a bed in the spare room .
13 So he made up a bed in the front of the byre there , and he was sixteen year in it .
14 I 'll make up a bed in one of the other rooms tonight .
15 FUNDRAISERS have issued a cry for help in their efforts to set up a hospice in Darlington .
16 Cherry Reksten was dragged to the ground by the 23 stone giant as she frantically scrambled up a tree in a bid to escape .
17 Police are now talking to a 30 year old friend of the family , who 's up a tree in the nearby woods , threatening to jump off a branch with a rope round his neck .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 The Right of Establishment relates not merely to a situation where a parent bank in one member state sets up a subsidiary in another , but also to situations where a parent in one state sets up a branch in another state .
22 This entire case depends on the assumption that the trust to set up a building in the town will be enforced in specie , The plea that payment should be allowed instead is ignored : the town has a greater interest in acquiring a ready-made building than in constructing or commissioning one itself .
23 SINGER Patty Smyth attacked two policeman after she caught them beating up a friend in New York .
24 Here we reckon we are building up a specialisation in this aspect of human development .
25 Mind workers are now planning to set up a marquee in the garden in Borough Road for the royal celebration .
26 An application to set up a pharmacy in the village , which would threaten the services offered by GPs in Four Marks and Ropley , had been turned down , but was due to go to appeal .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 Mr X sets up a trust in Jersey .
30 ( The answer is , yes , it does because it helps the receiver to move up a scale in their involvement level . )
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