Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] up [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After consultation with the Leeds Permanent Building Society , the EOC drew up the following recommendations in respect of mobility : |
| 2 | THE French government has launched a programme to set up a nationwide telecommunications research network , in an effort to catch up with Britain 's JANET system and Germany 's DFN . |
| 3 | In an attempt to sharpen up the spongy brakes on my IIa , I am working on a process of elimination and the next venture was going to be flushing the system and changing the fluid . |
| 4 | Petty sessions throw up a few cases , but not many . |
| 5 | And the Government is likely to spend the Christmas break weighing up the political options before deciding what to do next . |
| 6 | Eleanor picked up the fresh flowers and began trimming their stems . |
| 7 | The client may feel the deal has been negotiated and merely wants the lawyer to tie up the loose ends . |
| 8 | Once again Skaller picked up the two pictures , but only the features of the other boy still held his glance . |
| 9 | Attempts to set up a national printers " union in Scotland date from 1836 , but both the General Typographical Association of Scotland and its successor , the Northern District Board of the National Typographical Association , came to grief after only a few years . |
| 10 | The home secretary announced plans to set up a special police unit to investigate suspects . |
| 11 | In the bold decision to set up the Kurdish safe-havens and the no-fly zones in northern and southern Iraq after the Gulf war , and the decision to intervene militarily in Somalia , we see a significant departure from the principle of absolute sovereignty over domestic matters . |
| 12 | Not only did the fragrances of the essences cover up the putrid smells of gangrenous wounds , they also suppressed them by retarding putrefaction . |
| 13 | This is , however , a revealing case study in that disagreements show up the different modes of explanation clearly . |
| 14 | She was wiping a crust of bread round the inside of her dish to catch up the last drops of broth . |
| 15 | When the dashing Cigognes arrived they pounced with glee on the dispersed German planes flying up and down in the ‘ barrage ’ , tearing through it with impunity to shoot up the Drachen balloons , the vital eyes of the German artillery . |
| 16 | Is the Secretary of State aware that in London there is a majority in favour of Labour 's proposal to set up an elected police authority for the Greater London area ? |
| 17 | from the first of 1 january 1994 a treaty between the EC and EFTA open up the previous regulations for work permits between the countries of the EC ( or maybe EEC ? — eg Great Britain , Spain , Germany + 10 and EFTA ( Norway , Sweden , Switzerland + a couple of others ) . |
| 18 | The plan clears up the legal wrangles set off by the federal government 's decision in 1988 to sue the state government over water quality in the Everglades , but leaves unclear many of the details of the clean-up . |
| 19 | Er you need to have a much more all round variety of exercise to build up the different things . |
| 20 | Ditchburn covered up the extra payments through a hugely inflated figure for the purchase of straw to protect the turf from frost . |
| 21 | The rising sun lit up the topmost stones of the Pyramid , and Flaubert , looking down at his feet , noticed a small business-card pinned in place . |
| 22 | Iskandara picked up the few envelopes and looked at them disinterestedly . |
| 23 | ‘ He told me he could n't face the prospect of another divorce , which I understood because my parents split up a few years ago and it was very distressing , ’ she said . |
| 24 | In 1974 , for example , we learned that ‘ For the first time in a century and a half , since the great Tory reformer Robert Peel set up the Metropolitan police areas of our cities are becoming unsafe for peaceful citizens by night , and some even by day ’ — from no less an authority than that great Tory reformer Sir Keith Joseph . |
| 25 | Their very presence , however , unsettled the enemy and forced their commanders to detach valuable troops to round up the raiding parties . |
| 26 | Former county champion Lindsay Taylor is fifth while Steven Souter , Jevon Chan and Steven Cooper make up the eight seeds . |
| 27 | SMALL investors could use any spare cash to pick up a few holdings in carefully chosen smaller companies . |
| 28 | There he ordered Cronus to vomit up the other children , who then became the gods of Olympus . |
| 29 | The microphone picks up the surrounding sounds and feeds them to the amplifier . |
| 30 | Nesad Causevic , a policeman , was changing shift last November when a grenade blew up a few metres from his car . |