Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] up [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Labour may also gamble that Scottish Liberal Democrats — who in the last parliament made up almost half Mr Ashdown 's party — will be reluctant to vote down a government which is trying to legislate for a Scottish assembly elected by proportional representation .
2 Instead , from as low as 1000rpm you can bury your foot in the firewall and watch the front of the car gobble up ever larger amounts of tarmac .
3 The Terrence Higgins Trust Advice Centre will arrange for a lawyer to draw up reasonably straightforward wills for people in the London area who are infected with HIV or AIDS .
4 Palestinian , Israeli and Jordanian officials met with US State Department officials between Aug. 7-13 in an attempt to draw up mutually acceptable memoranda of understanding as a basis for the conference .
5 The meeting concentrated on the activities and progress of the three main working parties set up late last year to consider : rail privatisation ; the bus industry and financing of transport infrastructure .
6 But the small errand took up barely any time and she returned to her room with some hours to go before she would know if Ven Gajdusek was going to honour his letter .
7 Every day the Catering Department serves up almost 1,000 lunches across the campus , cooks up hot breakfasts for students in hall , creates four-star menus for visitors to the Management Centre and caters for special functions and conferences .
8 The second level , Taylor 's , was to be located downstream from here and driven into the western side of the Red Dell Beck to come up about 180 ft. below the old workings on the surface — Wide Work .
9 There was one child came up about seventeen times
10 They seem driven by a Teutonic determination to rack up as many airline meals as possible .
11 James displayed the long-awaited tactical skill needed to vitalize the team formation drawn up nearly five years before , and with Lambert finding new flair at centre-forward , one of the most famous attacking lines of all time had been forged .
12 The English peasantry threw up only one John Clare , and he was born too late to experience this ancient world to the full .
13 A lot of firms need to buy computer power when their administrative work takes up too much time .
14 Rather one must teach criminal law jurisprudentially and the circumstance that criminal law throws up so much grist for the jurisprudential mill fits it rather well for the role of an introductory course .
15 The jobless question cropped up earlier this year when Darlington 's status as an intermediate development area prompted a public row between the two biggest rivals .
16 Jackie 's delicate fingers felt around the frame , applied a light pressure , and the window slid up about eighteen inches .
17 The team will continue to be run by the steering committee set up earlier this summer .
18 American troops made up over three quarters of the Allied forces : for the first time American soldiers were fighting their Axis enemies on the ground .
19 The show is in the Fine Arts Museum , one of several grandiose public buildings put up about 100 years ago , when the Congo trade brought Antwerp new wealth .
20 The probable penalty in packing density for a large file is of the order of 0.5 to 1 per cent , while for small files it can be very much more — 50 per cent in the most extreme case , when the file takes up only one data cylinder .
21 Ramsay signed up over 300 persons , whose membership was duly noted in the so-called ‘ red book ’ .
22 FARM incomes went up significantly last year .
23 If one compares this relatively brief account with Mrs Gaskell 's much more detailed one of the Barton lodgings off that court in Manchester , the eye picks up very similar detail .
24 The growth of stalagmites resumed on top of this fresh deposit when the climate warmed up around 18,000 years ago .
25 The ODA Consortium is a European economic interest group set up earlier this year — members include Groupe Bull , DEC , IBM , ICL , SNI and Unisys : +32 2774 9623 .
26 Their radiation monitors picked up surprisingly high readings .
27 Members of the right-wing Solidarity Group picked up so many shadow cabinet posts that they no longer needed to organise .
28 During a typical marathon , your fatty tissue is whittled down by almost six ounces , your liver and leg muscles cough up about 11 ounces of carbohydrate , and — if you do n't drink properly during the race — your body can lose about 100 ounces of water .
29 Butler took up precisely this issue in her introduction to Women 's Work and Women 's Culture , 1869 .
30 Whether or not governments should take greater powers to break up already existing monopolies is an issue which is as much political as economic , for it involves issues of the freedom of the individual and the state .
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