Example sentences of "up a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Tell me how you came to take up a life of crime . ’ |
| 2 | Clearly no one person could get round five parishes , control five PCCs , prop up the fabric of five buildings , look to a couple of church school governing bodies , visit , bury and comfort the sick , dead and bereaved , let alone baptise , prepare for confirmation and marry five sets of parishioners and at the same time keep up a life of prayer . |
| 3 | So , although it is possible to conceive of any event as an incarnation of the totality , insofar as it must itself make up a part of that totality in its determination , unlike the case of the boxing match , where we can define the overall entity ‘ boxing ’ , it still remains unproven that an overall entity , ‘ History ’ , can be said to exist at all . |
| 4 | I mean I think the first is that the kind of evidence one picks up , none of it on its own can be considered , I think , to be totally objective or totally valid , but what it does is it builds up a part of a picture and gradually different sorts of evidence build up a rather more complicated , rather more perhaps accurate picture of a situation , and it 's really the cross-checking of different kinds of evidence that in the end gives the thing some kind of validity . |
| 5 | Then they beat up a man of 76 in a failed robbery , Leeds Crown Court heard . |
| 6 | In some quarters it was suggested that the best solution would be to set up a government of ‘ national trustees ’ , headed by McKenna , who had deserted politics for banking and had not sat in ; Parliament since 1918 . |
| 7 | Having addressed the President and the Congress , and having conducted what must have been one of the first lecture tours of the United States , Owen set up a village of Co-operation at New Harmony , in Indiana . |
| 8 | During April 1988 , Suchard , the Swiss-based chocolate manufacturer , launched a dawn raid on Rowntree , the York-based company , quickly scooping up a stake of 14.9 per cent as a ‘ strategic investment ’ , but claiming that it had no intention of launching a full-scale takeover bid . |
| 9 | Pittencrieff , which has built up a stake of 19.1 per cent in Aberdeen , has made its offer conditional on Aberdeen 's bid for Brabant failing . |
| 10 | Being able to stay in your own home or setting up a home of your own is something that most people value greatly . |
| 11 | Many of the owners had once been renters , thus , suggesting a pattern where young migrants , who can not afford land or property rent until they have sufficient savings to set up a home of their own . |
| 12 | A year earlier , David Damiani had married Blanche , an 18-year-old Nazareth girl , and set up a home of his own in the Arektenje district of Jaffa . |
| 13 | Marriage was delayed until the young couple could afford to set up a home of their own . |
| 14 | However , many songwriters still choose to sign an exclusive publishing agreement with a music publisher , thereby giving up a portion of their royalties and fees , and assigning all rights in their songs to that music publisher for a set period of time . |
| 15 | They had microwave ovens where he was able to heat up a portion of hot food to eat in the car . |
| 16 | ‘ No , sweetie , ’ said Dotty , snatching up a twist of cotton wool and wiping the carmine from Stella 's cheeks . |
| 17 | Wu Shih turned , leading them along the lang , the covered walkway , then up a twist of wooden steps and out on to a broad gallery above a concealed lake . |
| 18 | Once the decision had been taken , no time was wasted in defining the areas of the city to be dealt with and in actually measuring the ground , for Haussmann 's first task was to draw up a plan of Paris measured to an exact scale . |
| 19 | Matthieu was also responsible for drawing up a plan of the New Town ( see p. 138 ) but he died in 1352 before completing more than four chapels in the cathedral choir . |
| 20 | When a retailer sets up a new business , one of the first things he has to do is draw up a plan of the shop floor . |
| 21 | Draw up a plan of a shopping precinct for your nearest town . |
| 22 | Once the budget is decided , the retailer needs to draw up a plan of how that money is to be spent . |
| 23 | De La Rousselière , newly promoted lieut. -colonel , was set to drawing up a plan of attack . |
| 24 | So , following the instructions on pages 18–19 , you need to draw up a plan of what you 've got already , then you can work out how best to improve it . |
| 25 | Poopathy is chosen to liaise between the women and ERA , and the group draws up a plan of action . |
| 26 | the teachers are n't allowed to dictate the children , if they want erm to do something or make something they have to make up a plan of what they 're gon na do first |
| 27 | TERRY Waite passed up a chance of escape while he was held hostage because it would have meant shooting one of his captors , he reveals today . |
| 28 | How could I pass up a chance of hiring the most beautiful bargee in the solar system ? ’ |
| 29 | He could build up a knowledge of who he was , piece by piece . |
| 30 | The young Haworth left school at 14 to work in the factory and was required to pick up a knowledge of dyestuffs . |