Example sentences of "[verb] up [art] [adj] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The police had picked up the red sports car nine miles south of Ashford in Kent . |
| 2 | John Hutchinson is writing up an initial impressions report of the work in the region . |
| 3 | That is why it is so important that , as one of the conclusions of the Maastricht settlement , it was agreed that the 12 countries should set up an organisation loosely known as Europol whose first job would be to set up a Europeanwide drugs intelligence unit among the Twelve , which should lead to a greater level of co-operation with our continental partners to stop Ecstasy and other drugs coming into the country . |
| 4 | We 've got to set up a proper complaints procedure , so that people know how to complain about Social Services , although I doubt very much whether anybody would ever want to complain about Oxfordshire 's Social Services , and so on . |
| 5 | Prosecution witness Isham Chandra Dutta said he agreed to set up a dummy gems company in Bombay , for a £20,000 fee , which included a mail message centre with false letterheads and invoices . |
| 6 | His task was to set up a dummy gems firm in Bombay . |
| 7 | The home secretary announced plans to set up a special police unit to investigate suspects . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | Working in conjunction with the British Mountaineering Council and the Ramblers ' Association , COLA plans to set up the British Uplands Footpath Trust . |
| 11 | He opened up a 24.8 seconds advantage over Jackson at the half distance refuelling halt and never looked back on a course which measured just over 190 miles in length . |
| 12 | I assumed you 'd want to know that wreckage of a dinghy was washed up a few miles north of here on the Welsh coast last night . |
| 13 | In something of an afterthought the Irish News of 15 August 1966 recorded that ‘ a discussion took place on the desirability of holding a convention on civil rights for the purpose of drawing up a civil rights chart ’ . |
| 14 | The Titfords , it seemed , had not given up the Miscellaneous Repos business for good : an unmarried Scottish lady in her sixties , Jessie Grieve , was staying with them as a lodger ; what little she may have paid in rent would have been very useful , no doubt , as a means of eking out the family income . |
| 15 | Gen. Saw Maung , the Prime Minister and Chair of the ruling military State Law and Order Restoration Council ( SLORC ) , who was believed to be in poor mental and physical health , relinquished the post of Defence Minister on March 20 , having already given up the Foreign Affairs portfolio in September 1991 [ see p. 38440 ] . |
| 16 | The response has been to bolster up the procedural checks attendant upon the disbursement of such benefits . |
| 17 | Unless they 're very very careful the supporters of one member , one vote so called will create a narrow and exclusive Party , limited to those lucky people who can stump up an eighteen pounds membership fee without thinking too hard , and in the Britain of nineteen ninety three there are n't quite as many of those as perhaps we would like to see . |
| 18 | Paul Bedworth , 19 , an Edinburgh University student , was said to have used a £200 micro computer at his home in Ilkley , West Yorkshire , to dial up the Financial Times network and introduce a rogue programme to the high-technology system , Southwark Crown Court was told . |
| 19 | Labour will set up a Human Rights Division in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office , and require all Britain 's diplomatic posts abroad to appoint an officer to monitor human rights . |
| 20 | It would set up a National Monuments Commission to care for ancient sites , institute small penalties for vandals who damaged them , and — most important — give the commission a right of purchase if the owner of a scheduled monument wanted to destroy it . |
| 21 | We will set up a National Qualifications Council to coordinate a single system of academic and vocational courses for 14–19 year olds , and a new Higher Education Standards Council to monitor quality in higher education . |
| 22 | As well as organising conferences and courses the group also helped set up a national awards scheme and backed a number of arts publications . |
| 23 | We have now set up a Human Rights Committee , properly structured and managed , with a defined budget . |
| 24 | As indicated above , we have now set up a Validated Courses Section within the Assessment Department and ( ) is heading this . |
| 25 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , we set up the National Rivers Authority specifically to respond in the first instance to the sort of pollution incidents to which he refers — this one is a very serious incident . |
| 26 | British Gas has been swiftly building up its interests in the new developments to build up a new earnings stream and gain access to supplies . |
| 27 | Amnesty called on the government ( which had recently set up a human rights task force and an inquiry into alleged atrocities ) to admit the extent of abuses in the past , including its own role , in order to clear the atmosphere for a fresh approach on human rights observance . |
| 28 | Since the Bingham Report it has set up a special investigations unit and improved staff training . |
| 29 | PEP had set up a Post-war Aims Group even before the war began , and within a week of its outbreak had circulated.a draft report on war aims . |
| 30 | This talented young Liphook rider notched up a runaway experts class victory in the Bognor Regis Club trial at Lavant , near Chichester . |