Example sentences of "[verb] up the [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Junkers , predictably , wanted none of this and their interests in the government , civil service and the military persuaded the government to continue shoring up the ailing Ost-Elbian estate system through continued tariff protection , artificially high grain prices and a policy of grants and loans . |
| 2 | It agreed to draw on creative Marxism and other traditions and transform itself into an empowering organisation in order to contribute to opening up the new political formulations that will be needed across Europe in the post cold-war era . |
| 3 | The drawing , along with various sketches of joints and fixings was sent to the church architects whose only alteration was to square up the curved top member to line up with the bottom panels . |
| 4 | In an article entitled ‘ Quand le Symbolisme fut mort ’ which appeared in Nord-Sud in 1917 , Paul Dermée attempted to sum up the new aesthetic trends . |
| 5 | She prefaces her book with an attempt to sum up the whole hideous story . |
| 6 | Then I went below and got a handkerchief and helped Hands tie up the great bleeding wound in his leg . |
| 7 | Keeping up the good old traditions . |
| 8 | Today , Doddy heads up the 400-strong PTGI company , an agency which makes available Guinness throughout the country , from small road-side stalls to large supermarkets , from luxury hotels to more downmarket bars . |
| 9 | He moved up the tricky little wall ( the technical crux ) to the roof , and draped a thick sling over the huge pointed spike known as the Cheeseblock . |
| 10 | The reigning European Barefoot Champion has picked up the British Waterski Federation 's highest award for her outstanding achievments . |
| 11 | Henry looked at himself in the kitchen mirror , as he crumpled up the other three pages of this latest missive and threw it in the swingbin . |
| 12 | She walked past him into the tiny hallway and picked up her bags , noticing with relief that he was n't around when she fled up the narrow wooden stairs to one of the three bedrooms , the one furthest away from his . |
| 13 | The initial pitches gave easy climbing up the low angled base , but as usual with routes having ( F6a ) and ( F6b ) moves , there were only two or three bolts a long way apart . |
| 14 | With that warning Sergeant Hanafin cycled up the narrow dusty road leaving Bull O'Malley staring after him . |
| 15 | So at least the first two cells are still picking up the right two numbers , because we used the range names , we 've inserted a row on the other file , but er , we 're still about range names found where those cells are . |
| 16 | Projections suggest that FUNCINPEC will have 57 seats in Cambodia 's constituent assembly , against the CPP 's 52 , with minor parties picking up the remaining 11 seats . |
| 17 | He left the room , picking up the little erotic figures and locking them into his desk drawer . |
| 18 | Frances Coady , founder publisher at Vintage , will head up the new literary group , which brings together Jonathan Cape , Chatto & Windus , Vintage and Pimlico . |
| 19 | the relaxing garden terrace and very peaceful swimming pool are a fantastic place for soaking up the long hot days in the sun , and the pool is served throughout the day by a restaurant/bar . |
| 20 | In mid-January 1991 the Indian government announced a programme to clean up the 800-km long Yamuna River which flowed through Delhi before joining the Ganges at Allahabad , and was polluted by ( among other sources ) untreated chemicals from a major oil refinery at Mathura and several tanneries in Agra . |
| 21 | Charles squeezed her hand as they drove up the winding sunlit road to the peak . |
| 22 | So much for security , Ruth mused as she leapt back into the jeep and drove up the long gravelly drive ; I could be a burglar for all he knew . |
| 23 | Russian colonization , cities and railways cut up the great grazing lands of the nomadic peoples as violently as American settlers had done to the Amerindians in the United States . |
| 24 | The latter ( in which I took a great personal interest ) required the installation of a special engine to pump up the Secondary Modern sewage into a tank , at the Grammar School level , from which it could then flow gently eastwards towards the Oxford Road . |
| 25 | Additional economic corrective measures , announced on Nov. 4 , to reverse serious economic decline included ( i ) a new tariff structure to open up the protected domestic markets to cheaper imports in order to boost domestic consumer demand ; ( ii ) a promise to reform inefficient ports and customs services ; ( iii ) an anti-monopoly decree ; ( iv ) the privatization of selected state companies ; ( v ) the freeing of the exchange rate ; and ( vi ) a sweeping reform of the tax structure [ see p. 37851 ] . |
| 26 | However , with their habitual thrust towards the private market , the Tory Housing Act , by incorporating provision for shorthold tenure , and permission to council tenants to sublet and take lodgers , is designed to open up the private rented sector . |
| 27 | IT WAS once said of Peter Shilton , by a frustrated forward who had failed to beat him in a one-on-one situation , that ‘ he just spreads his arms and fills up the whole bloody goal ’ . |
| 28 | The annual report artificially parcels up the underlying economic trends into years . |
| 29 | Does he agree that what they need is support and proper resources so that they can carry out their work , not what has been happening over the past 12 years — continual restructuring and reforms which do the service no good and break up the comprehensive national health service that we all know ? |
| 30 | I have seen it — Not long ago , in Moscow on quite another mission , I tiptoed up the great empty staircase and , with a diplomatic passport in my pocket , stood in the eternal dusk that shrouds old ballrooms when they are asleep — With its plump brown pillars and gilded mirrors , it was better suited to the last hours of a sinking liner than the launch of a great initiative . |