Example sentences of "up a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | T'WIT to woo owls Eddie and Edwina have struck up a tender relationship . |
| 2 | Mercer 's bid to control Hibernian opened up a deep wound in the capital and brought unwanted attention to the embattled Hibs board . |
| 3 | As it cooks , neaten the sides with a spatula to build up a deep , straight edge . |
| 4 | Plans to set up a deep repository for nuclear waste near Sellafield in Cumbria are attracting growing criticism . |
| 5 | His thumb circled and rubbed the hardened peak , sending waves of sensation through her , starting up a deep throb of desire . |
| 6 | The irony is that no VAT would be levied if hoteliers were to set up a separate sandwich bar business next to their property and handed out sandwiches and drinks . |
| 7 | The attempt to build up a separate National Labour Party proved a dismal failure , while the Liberal Nationals continued as pensioners of the Conservative party until finally merging with them — as the Liberal Unionists had done previously — in 1966 . |
| 8 | In 1989 KPMG Peat Marwick set up a separate environment unit to help its clients become more aware of environmental responsibilities , problems and opportunities . |
| 9 | It was Rosa Luxemburg , with the strong support of the German leadership , who defended the position of the German Social Democrats in the name of internationalism , urging the Polish worker in Prussia ‘ to give up national utopias and to accept that his national interests are best taken care of by Social Democracy , and not by taking up a separate position as a Pole in the wake of nationalist parties ’ . |
| 10 | In 1879 , breeders in Friesland set up a separate herdbook , the Friesch Rundvee Stamboek ( FRS ) . |
| 11 | General causal models can not be drawn up when interactions exist between the variables ; the only solution is to draw up a separate causal model for each of the groups for whom the effects of the variables are different . |
| 12 | He said the princess was building up a separate Kensington Palace court and international platform for herself , predicting : ‘ We will see the phoenix princess arising from the ashes of this whole crumbling mess of the monarchy . |
| 13 | Elena knew instinctively that by building up a separate cult of herself — in many ways more spurious and grotesque than anything created for her husband — she was laying the foundations for her own take-over in the event of Nicolae 's death . |
| 14 | Mace declined to comment , other than to say that ‘ we are in the process of trying to figure out how to set up a separate company . ’ |
| 15 | Xanana Gusmao , a former resistance leader in East Timor , was sentenced to life imprisonment by an Indonesian court for , among several charges , trying to set up a separate state . |
| 16 | Mace declined to comment other than to say that ‘ we are in the process of trying to figure out how to set up a separate company . ’ |
| 17 | The couple is expected to set up a separate residence for themselves on or shortly after marriage ( that is , and has long been , a general European pattern ) , and the chief obligations of the spouses are to each other and to their children , and only after that to their own families of origin . |
| 18 | I then decided to set up a separate tank for them and to buy a pH test kit to make sure the pH was similar . |
| 19 | In the north west the Somali National Movement ( ‘ S.N.M. ’ ) attempted to set up a separate state . |
| 20 | Here the problem for the Labour leadership is even more difficult for there is no constitutional issue about building up a separate organization within the party . |
| 21 | Since March 1990 Mid Glamorgan 's community drug team has seen a progressive increase in the number of users of anabolic steroids attending general needle exchange clinics and has therefore set up a separate service for these users . |
| 22 | Sinn Fein 's success was built around the pledge that , if elected , they would refuse to take up their seats in Westminster and set up a separate Irish parliament instead . |
| 23 | In 1944 he produced the first fixed-odds football coupon , and set up a separate football company in 1944 . |
| 24 | However , some management education is provided in technical colleges which are not associated with RMCs and , somewhat concerned lest their work and status be eclipsed by nearby RMCs , they set up a separate pressure group in the form of the United Kingdom Standing Conference of Management Heads ( UKSC ) . |
| 25 | My hon. Friend puts his finger on one of the central dilemmas faced by those who would advocate setting up a separate Parliament with separate powers entrenched in Edinburgh in rivalry to the Westminster Parliament . |
| 26 | One of the defendants had been Ivan " Janez " Jansa , who was now Slovenia 's defence minister and an advocate of setting up a separate Slovene army . |
| 27 | The company , founded by Mrs Cooper 's great grandfather Robert Richardson , soon began to specialise in clock making and became so popular it had to set up a separate factory at Robert Street . |
| 28 | The Government of Ireland Act 1920 had set up a regional parliament and government . |
| 29 | The local church also plays a strategic role in building up a regional and national picture , the accuracy of which will depend upon the quality of the data which churches have amassed and are willing to divulge . |
| 30 | MMT operates purely in the UK South East where Haines claims 2% to 3% market share , and has no plans to set up a regional office up North until this market is saturated , although an acquisition is possible . |