Example sentences of "[noun] have [vb pp] up [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and this is compounded by the fact that the executive branch has given up any attempt to control the military-industrial complex . |
| 2 | Soon the chewed mass has sponged up any moisture left and your dry tongue is clanging against the side of your mouth like the great bell of Notre Dame . |
| 3 | The Delicatessen & Fine Food Association has set up this telephone service to help you track down your nearest supplier of almost any specialist ingredient . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , Menter Bro Ddyfi has set up new computer courses at the school , which commence next week . |
| 5 | The solo Univel rep and ex-SCO employee has lined up Sydney-based Com Tech Communications as prime distributor and MUA Pty Ltd as associate distributor for UnixWare , matching existing arrangements under which the Santa Cruz Operation Inc has distributed its desktop Unix in Australia . |
| 6 | THE Yanks have mopped up London-based printing ink company Usher-Walker . |
| 7 | Since then safety work has pushed up that capacity and when the ( New Zealand ) All Blacks play there in three weeks it will be helped to 21,000 by a temporary stand erected over the Tanner Bank wall on the outfield of the adjacent cricket field , adding 2,300 spectators who need not be counted in the official figure . |
| 8 | Once a particular electron has soaked up enough energy from the X-rays for its release it begins to radiate from the parent atom ( Figure 3 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ The Institute has built up considerable expertise in the quality control and quality assurance areas both prior to , and since , accreditation by CNAA in September 1989 . |
| 10 | ADVANCED trenching equipment has speeded up this aspect of a project to such an extent , |
| 11 | SASPAC91 for PC 's is being made available under the CHEST deal to academic sites who want to hold it ; the cost of a site licence is just under 3,000 for five years , and about 15 sites have taken up this offer . |
| 12 | Over the past few years , many companies have set up contracted-out money purchase schemes — or COMPS , as they are known for short — which operate on a different principle from final salary schemes . |
| 13 | Following the flooding of RFK Stadium , the Washington Redskins have given up all hope of making another Superbowl — but the city 's new Red Herrings are an increasingly powerful force in major league water-polo . |
| 14 | Indeed , the continued dominance of Oxford , Cambridge and the top public schools severely weakens the claim that educational reform has opened up British society . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , Xhibition has rounded up three keynote speakers : DEC 's vice-president of research Sam Fuller will speak on ‘ Unix and Microsoft Windows NT , Friends or Foes ? ; ’ |
| 16 | Finch had picked up some Arabic and heard the interpreter translating the image into a metaphysical one about a camel ( whichever is a camel ) lying down with a camel ( whichever is a camel ) . |
| 17 | Ted had given up all hope of enlarging his holding and was concentrating his efforts on farming his existing soil , making a reasonable living from his multiplicity of vegetable crops , when a letter arrived one day explaining to him that if he still wanted to buy the adjoining land , the owners were interested in discussing the matter . |
| 18 | By early July the Wordsworths had taken up temporary residence at Cottle 's house in Wine Street , Bristol , where Dorothy found the noise of the Bristol streets almost intolerable . |
| 19 | What annoying snag had cropped up this time ? |
| 20 | The younger age group have taken up conspicuous consumption , presumably as a means of recouping some esteem in terms of the apparently dominant and universalistic class criteria . |
| 21 | Data General Ltd in the UK has signed up ICL-owned distributor Technology plc of Warrington , Cheshire as its first ever UK distributor for the AViiON and CLARiiON product lines . |
| 22 | As expected ( UX No 422 ) , the Open Software Foundation has picked up new widget technology from Lotus Development Corp , IBM Corp and Digital Equipment Corp to enhance its Motif graphical user interface . |
| 23 | At the subsequent AGM of the Alliance , Charles Ward argued that following the electoral truce of the war years conscientiously observed by the Alliance but not its opponents , the organisation had made up lost ground through steady educative work , and was now able ‘ to get in closer touch with the people ’ ( SE 12 February 21 ) . |
| 24 | Since losing her sight , Philippa Bastable has taken up competitive swimming and has a new career , too |
| 25 | Bill Rodgers having set up this committee , it now fell to me to decide what to do with their report . |
| 26 | In France Jean-Paul Kauffman 's colleagues were paying a percentage of their salaries towards the campaign , and several colleagues at WTN had set up regular standing orders into our bank account . |
| 27 | Reinhard Heydrich had dreamed up this idea , and also the name for the unlucky decoys — Konserven , or , let's say , tinned meat . |
| 28 | Many ex-servicemen had given up all hope of ever seeing the tribute after the Ministry of Defence warned supplies could dry up following the break-up of the USSR . |
| 29 | Elections were to be contested up to the level of Dáil Éireann when the movement had built up sufficient support . |
| 30 | War heroes who served on the Russian convoys had given up all hope of receiving the award issued by the old Soviet Union . |