Example sentences of "[verb] up the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Broker Cazenove , responsible for marketing the UK tranche of the share sale , failed to drum up the same level of enthusiasm exhibited in other centres . |
| 2 | The 24-year-old sweeper will lose three days ’ wages for deserting his father 's electrical business to take on the infinitely more difficult job of shoring up the leakiest defence in international soccer . |
| 3 | Just as many equality feminists opposed shoring up the traditional family at the beginning of the century , so present-day Labour has been challenged internally time and time again — and externally by the women 's and lesbians and gay liberation movements — on its sexual politics . |
| 4 | In this chapter we will channel our energies into opening up the contradictory facets of our personalities and explore the different voices , different tones of voice , that these contradictions make available to us . |
| 5 | It does , however , make it more likely to happen , and facilitates this by opening up the political space in which local differentiation can occur . |
| 6 | However he ruled out opening up the political system to a number of parties , insisting that national unity must be achieved first . |
| 7 | As Hennessy was opening up the grey lockers at the end of the room , Donaldson spelt Bobo again . |
| 8 | Pioneering scientific work is now opening up the immense diversity of sensory worlds experienced by other creatures : extraordinary worlds which we may never be able to enter , but which we can at least start to appreciate through our awareness of animal " supersenses " . |
| 9 | I began by taking the cable-car and the chairlift beyond it , then wandered up the lower glacier to the hut . |
| 10 | He came across and dabbed up the spilt coffee with a dirty dishcloth and a flourish . |
| 11 | Sheer walls thirty feet high enclose you , the way upstream being a clamber up the smooth lip of a nine-foot dry waterfall that takes you into Upper Ease Gill Kirk . |
| 12 | Abercrombie and fellow practitioners who prepared plans for the reconstruction of British cities after the war , and planning officers up and down the country who drew up the first batch of development plans after 1948 , worked to a common assumption : once the new urban land use pattern had been established , city form and structure would settle down into a steady state . |
| 13 | Wolsey 's clerks drew up the necessary letters of accreditation , warrants and bills for the exchequer . |
| 14 | After consultation with the Leeds Permanent Building Society , the EOC drew up the following recommendations in respect of mobility : |
| 15 | In the words of Luther 's great disciple Melanchthon , it was ‘ a Parisian sophist , a blind Scot ’ , the Catholic Robert Wauchope , who drew up the Tridentine decree on justification , and it was Melanchthon 's Scottish friends Alexander Alesius and John McAlpine who , as professors of theology , spread the Protestant gospel at Frankfurt and Copenhagen . |
| 16 | Certainly some people , particularly those who drew up the initial list of candidates , tried to gain advantage by appealing to tribal loyalties , but that led them to include candidates who were not Zuwaya , or not Magharba , in the hope of widening their mass appeal . |
| 17 | I see from today 's Financial Times that a leading member of the board of the Bundesbank said yesterday that the Maastricht summit was a failure and might prove to be ’ a suicidal failure ’ — serious words from a key member of the body that drew up the detailed proposals for European economic and monetary union . |
| 18 | How can a twenty-two-year-old mother with three small children , whose stock of crockery consists of three cups and four plates , find the economic or emotional hardware to plug up the six-inch hole around the pipe running from her sink to an outside drain , or similar holes round all the pipes in her kitchen ? |
| 19 | He says Oxford is a wonderland we wanted to sum up the traditional image with dreaming spires and punting on the Cherwell . |
| 20 | This , as Henry looked at it , the piped organ music swelling through the chapel , seemed to sum up the complete irrelevance of English literature . |
| 21 | Herbert also penned the verses which have come to sum up the general fate of such investigations : |
| 22 | He lined up the dead centre of the target and scored with a long , spiralling burst . |
| 23 | But after 74 miles , they were all together as they charged up the last climb to the finishing line . |
| 24 | So I am encouraged in my perhaps natural naïveté , I am encouraged to be simpliste , by my knowledge of the value of complication in fogging up the real issues in politics . |
| 25 | The top riders never appear to be hurrying — in fact Mark Todd often appears to be quite casual as he clocks up the fastest time of the day . |
| 26 | Whether it is the Lusitania steaming up the Irish coast towards her doom or a couple of one-legged dwarfs drinking in a bar in Paris , the processes of imagination in the form of characters , clothes , setting , and action are all clawed out of the mind . |
| 27 | Saturdays made no difference to us , for there was no school then , but on Wednesdays some of us had to stand up the whole way to Parma . |
| 28 | But Andebraham Giorgis , who heads up the educational division of the EPLF , is as interested in talking about the achievements and challenges of education as about the difficulties resulting from the war . |
| 29 | He was wiring up the main hatch above the hold , in such a way that showed he was certainly not an electrician by trade , with the intention of giving a mild electric shock to anyone who might try to get into it . |
| 30 | She was also a kind of mascot of the liberal intelligentsia — had she not come up the hard way from the very bottom of the heap to stand by Miller 's side defying the anti-Communist witch-hunters who wanted to jail him ? |