Example sentences of "up an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been a sub-editor in those days , working for a huge magazine corporation , and they had struck up an instant rapport , and when he was made first assistant editor and then editor , always moving from magazine to magazine , he had pushed work her way whenever he could . |
| 2 | The Welshman sent Critchley over within three minutes of the second half and was in support to take Tait 's pass and touch down in the 56th minute , with Holliday 's goal setting up an aborbing final quarter . |
| 3 | True to his belief in the efficacy of competition , he avoided building up an extensive chain of outlets , and preferred to thrive by vigorous marketing . |
| 4 | He has built up an extensive wine list in close co-operation with Peter Davenport , and is knowledgeable and enthusiastic about it . |
| 5 | Since the 1930s , the Library of the Scott Polar Research Institute has built up an extensive collection of material relating to the Soviet Arctic . |
| 6 | PROMOTER Mickey Duff last night signed up an experienced Mexican , Jesus Rojas , to box Andy Holligan in the top-liner at Everton Park Sports Centre next Thursday , writes Syd Dye . |
| 7 | The point is of course that the puzzle itself is false in setting up an impossible situation . |
| 8 | A similar effect of , on the one hand , challenging the reader to take up an alert and interpretative role , and , on the other , gratuitously creating an amorphous but strong atmosphere peculiar to the fabliau through the text , is achieved by extensive use of the homonyms vit and con , and com-/con- as a common suffix in the Romance languages : ( I can not make a long tale : in this castle there was a count and with him the countess , his wife , who was a very beautiful and worthy woman ; and there were [ or she had ] more than thirty knights . |
| 9 | Diplomats believe Mr Sevan tried to accelerate the decision on who would make up an interim council to replace Mr Najibullah . |
| 10 | In August , as the first step to setting up an Islamic government in Harar , he peremptorily recalled its Governor , Dedjazmatch Tafari . |
| 11 | There was nothing particularly creditable in giving up an immoral life when you had fully satisfied that nagging curiosity . |
| 12 | Still it was hard when she 'd just been asked to blow up an orbiting city with almost a million inhabitants . |
| 13 | He placed it on a bale of straw and pulled up an upturned bucket as a chair before hopping on to a meal bin where he sat like a pixie on a toadstool with his arms around his knees , regarding me with keen anticipation . |
| 14 | In the same year , the Home Secretary set up an internal committee to examine how the right to silence might best be modified in England and Wales . |
| 15 | The computer company IBM has set up an internal " Environment Council " with a " green senior manager " in every department , in an effort to improve environmental performance . |
| 16 | Firms are now required to set up an internal complaints procedure " which shall , inter alia , ensure that clients are informed whom to approach in the event of any problem with the service provided " ( Solicitors ' Practice Rule 15 and see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 17 | Earlier yesterday , Mr Mandela told supporters in Wembezi township , 75 miles west of Pietermaritzburg , that the international community should play a role in setting up an internal peace force . |
| 18 | Instead , they set up an internal task force and produced a ‘ bowdlerised ’ version . |
| 19 | Of the rebellion in Mesopotamia he wrote that it could be dealt with by raising two divisions of volunteer local troops , reducing the British administrative staff and setting up an Arab government under the indirect control of a British officer . |
| 20 | Once hired , the scientists would continue to be paid by the federal government , with regional government picking up an increasing share of the salary each year . |
| 21 | However , the company is still hauling 750,000 tonnes of potash each year from seams deep under the North Sea and is building up an increasing export market . |
| 22 | Depending on the direction and strength of the breeze , Jack would opt either to carry his drive right over the bunker to set up an easy shot into the green or , more likely , for a conservative drive down the left side of the fairway and a mid-iron to the heart of the green . |
| 23 | Television sets up an obsessive acting-out of desire , which the spectator tries to assuage by consuming the television text itself in its unique promise . |
| 24 | 1.16 Much has been written on ‘ English across the curriculum ’ , a phrase which , for some , conjures up an unacceptable vision of English reduced to a service subject , and for others an equally unacceptable vision of subject specialists burdened with responsibilities that should rightly be carried by teachers of English . |
| 25 | Following discussions by a forum of some 70 senior executives from the industry , brought together by the Association , and which invited the HCIMA to set up an industry-led accreditation scheme . |
| 26 | We could also set up an effect-to-cause study in which we match two groups for which the response measurements differ and look to see if they also differ in some previous X-type phenomenon . |
| 27 | The British Chiefs of Staff and the Foreign Office put up an obdurate defence , yet it seems that Attlee did not begin to retreat until January 1947 , around the time of the decision to proceed with a British nuclear bomb . |
| 28 | Alan snatched up an osier basket and hung it on the cockerel 's rusty head to hide it . |
| 29 | One leads up an unfrequented glen occupied by wild goats and skirts the northern flank of Beinn Fhada to arrive at a rough bealach or col , where I once shivered for two hours waiting for the mist to lift off Sgurr nan Ceathreamhnan ahead , which it did not . |
| 30 | For the first time this opened up an honest discussion of feelings , and started the process of constructing a new pattern of interaction . |