Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [verb] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The purpose of the visit was three-fold : to guide the CII in setting up the right systems for quality management training in India ; to organise a one-day workshop for the benefit of a group of senior managers on the theme of ‘ Total Quality Management : How to Make it Happen in India ’ ; to present two papers at the World Congress on Total Quality . |
| 2 | You 're also prone to dredging up the wounding words and cutting critiques others have directed at you recently . |
| 3 | It does , however , make it more likely to happen , and facilitates this by opening up the political space in which local differentiation can occur . |
| 4 | For we can be rightly proud of one of Eglantine Jebb 's major achievements five years later that of drawing up the original first ever charter on the rights of the child and persuading the then league of nations to adopt it . |
| 5 | As soon as this task had been completed a similar procedure to that of setting up the initial data base was adopted . |
| 6 | The process is consequently one more akin to topping up the various activity boxes with water , with flows being initiated from one to another once selected levels have been achieved . |
| 7 | Panamanians on the Canal Zone border celebrate the coming into effect of the Canal Treaties in 1979 by tearing up the American flag |
| 8 | This exercise is brilliant for toning up the loose skin under the chin . |
| 9 | Selling off the family silver , and look what we 're gon na have to do with that year You have criticised those for setting up the various units , and giving them target for . |
| 10 | He was responsible for drawing up the first comprehensive anti-drugs strategy , unveiled in September 1989 , which involved increased spending , heavier penalties for casual users and incentives to drug-producing countries to clamp down on narcotics production . |
| 11 | Again this is not a view which has been endorsed by all , but it does provide an explanation as to why the government 's proposed reforms are largely confined to measures concerned with speeding up the investigatory process and making existing policy more efficient . |
| 12 | The German Environment Minister , Klaus Töpfer , has announced that 15 billion Deutschmarks ( £6.3 bn ) will be made available for cleaning up the estimated 70,000 hazardous waste dumps in former East Germany . |
| 13 | Some states were not slow in following up the 1967 Act . |