Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet still it appears impossible to discover the ownership of shares held through a minor Swiss bank which were used to help a second division British company build up stakes in several third division British companies . |
| 2 | 6 October : The Princess Margaret , Countess of Snowdon this afternoon visited Up Hatherley , Cheltenham , and was received on arrival at Staverton Airport by Her Majesty 's Lord-Lieutenant for Gloucestershire ( Colonel Martin Gibbs ) . |
| 3 | IRAQ : Government troops last year stepped up ground and aerial attacks on the southern marshes of Iraq , where tens of thousands of government opponents and military deserters , mainly Shi'a Muslims , remain in hiding . |
| 4 | THE INFLUX of Australians into the English domestic cricket scene continues unabated , the difference between today and yesteryear being that in the late 1940s and early 1950s players made the 12,000 mile northern journey to take up contracts with league and county sides after falling out of favour with State and national selectors . |
| 5 | Yesterday police used teargas to break up protestors blocking aid lorries near Zenesa . |
| 6 | When Congress last year held up legislation to give the EPA cabinet status , wanted by Mr Bush , some people saw the vengeful hand of Mr Darman at work . |
| 7 | By way of example , SunSoft last week picked up Burlington , Massachusetts-based Object Design Inc 's Persistent Storage Manager Engine , an object store technology which will run on top of Solaris . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , Bristol police last night stepped up security plans for the match . |
| 9 | In a government document on maternity care , the Maternity Services Advisory Committee rounded up advice on good practice in postnatal care : ‘ The care a mother and baby receive in the first weeks after the birth is as important as the care given antenatally and during childbirth , ’ it says . |
| 10 | Being one of those select few companies that have been able to secure access to initial deliveries of Texas Instruments Inc 's SuperSparc RISC processor ( UX No 384 ) , it is understood that ICL last week totted up numbers required by its various departments and placed its order with TI for the part , which will feature in the DRS6000 workstation range from the fourth quarter . |
| 11 | Pressure from western governments , unwilling to contemplate another famine on their domestic television screens , forced the junta last year to loosen up control of farms and trade ; but too late . |
| 12 | ARMED robbers last night held up security guards at Dundee 's head post office and got away with bags containing an unknown sum of money . |