Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [verb] up [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , if the adventurers make a thorough search here , they have a 50% chance each for turning up a sealed vial with 2D4+1 doses of Trollbane , and another with D4+1 doses of Graveroot . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ He says he 's interested in building up a representative collection of primitive and tribal art , but when we tell him the best place to look is in his own back yard , as it were , he tells us he does n't want Abo art , ’ James said , trying unsuccessfully to pronounce the last two words of his sentence with what he imagined was an Australian accent . |
| 4 | So , when Caine told Peter Langan that he was interested in setting up a British restaurant along the lines of La Coupole , Langan found it an irresistible proposition . |
| 5 | You 're also prone to dredging up the wounding words and cutting critiques others have directed at you recently . |
| 6 | One reason why companies established in one member state are entitled to do business in another without setting up a permanent place of business in that state is that such a requirement might unreasonably inflate their costs . |
| 7 | There was only one person to whom Jerome would be reporting with so much fervour ; Bénezet , naturally curious about anything that might serve his turn or redound to his profit , was not averse to picking up a few crumbs of useful information by the way . |
| 8 | Dennis and his friend Tommy want to stop this by setting up a National Centre where doctors and medical scientists can undertake research to prevent premature birth . |
| 9 | It does , however , make it more likely to happen , and facilitates this by opening up the political space in which local differentiation can occur . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | As soon as this task had been completed a similar procedure to that of setting up the initial data base was adopted . |
| 12 | The Old Testament may give these few hints of a Creator Spirit , and certainly this thought is found in the intertestamental period — where the parallelism between Wisdom , Word and Spirit is important — but the paucity of instances that can be adduced , and the plausibility of taking them in another sense , does make one very cautious of building up a great doctrine of co-operating with the Holy Spirit in his on-going work of creation . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Panamanians on the Canal Zone border celebrate the coming into effect of the Canal Treaties in 1979 by tearing up the American flag |
| 15 | Kombayi , a former mayor of Gweru and a ZANU-PF stalwart until his impeachment in 1984 for beating up a local shopkeeper , claimed that the Central Intelligence Organization was responsible , but this was denied by the Zimbabwean authorities . |
| 16 | The point is of course that the puzzle itself is false in setting up an impossible situation . |
| 17 | This exercise is brilliant for toning up the loose skin under the chin . |
| 18 | You will be able to choose from traditional , elegant , white decor doors , which are popular for bedrooms , or silver mirror doors , which are great for brightening up a dingy hallway or adding light to a small , dark room . |
| 19 | There was nothing particularly creditable in giving up an immoral life when you had fully satisfied that nagging curiosity . |
| 20 | Graded tests would be far more informative for those involved in making up an individual programme fitted for each of those who is going on . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | After a day which saw United 's chances once again undermined by their inability to score , Richardson believes Villa showed just why they are capable of putting up a genuine challenge . |
| 26 | The CNRS has been less successful in setting up an international company called Euroresearch . |
| 27 | It could be a flatter of setting up a new plant , opening a new market , launching a new product or turning around a failing company that has been acquired . |
| 28 | Some states were not slow in following up the 1967 Act . |
| 29 | Conversely , where there is potential for electronic improvement to a particular process or activity , the analysis could provide the basis for identifying the relationships necessary for setting up a suitable system . |
| 30 | Edinburgh Southern 's Elliot Bunney was less happy with his form in the 60m , finishing fifth and third Briton ( behind Jason John , 6.73sec , and Jason Fergus , 6.79 ) , in 6.83 after picking up a false start . |