Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] up [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a lovely sight to see all the sleeping hens on their perch and exciting to open up the door in the morning to find they had laid eggs for our breakfast in the three nest boxes on the floor . |
| 2 | ‘ No , but I doubt you 'd find too many takers here willing to give up the delights of the West for a Russian dacha . ’ |
| 3 | Ltd. but returned in 1903 to take up an appointment as chief chemist in their Salamander works in Riga . |
| 4 | GORDON TAYLOR , the players ' union secretary , yesterday confirmed that he is still prepared to take up the post of chief executive of the Football League -despite a cold-shoulder from the League 's management committee and the reluctance of the Professional Footballers ' Association to release him . |
| 5 | He had wanted Lesley to have an abortion , but because he feels committed to Lesley he is prepared to bring up the baby as if she were his own . |
| 6 | Yet schools are prepared to tie up the time of senior staff , in effect the resource equivalent of at least a full-time head of department post , with the vaguest responsibilities for taking difficult pupils away from classrooms . |
| 7 | It was argued that it would be undesirable to open up the possibility of private prosecution , and that the sensitivity of the area was such that it was imperative that prosecution policy be consistent . |
| 8 | ( It is possible to set up a system to gradually add your tank water while discarding the shop water but this should not be necessary ) . |
| 9 | As is indicated in the chapter on teaching in role , it 's possible to set up the pre-requisites through carefully chosen opening lines . |
| 10 | Unfortunately it is too far south to be properly seen from Britain or the northern United States , but when high up it is truly impressive , and it is easy to conjure up the picture of a scorpion from the long line of bright stars , with the ‘ head ’ and the ‘ sting ’ . |
| 11 | Since documents prepared with either indented or hanging paragraphs tend to be consistently of the one style , it is as easy to set up the format before typing as it is to do it afterwards . |
| 12 | It is very easy to pick up a meaning from a metaphor which was perhaps not the one intended . |
| 13 | There is no simple formula by which this may be achieved , and its very nature makes it impossible to draw up a catalogue of final behaviours to be acquired . |
| 14 | There was no clear theory of jurisdiction and it was impossible to draw up a set of rules which could be used to predict when the courts would intervene . |
| 15 | Having done so much to point up the plight of blacks in the 1960s and 1970s , Ali reduced himself to little more than a comic figure in much the same way as Johnson had . |
| 16 | It is easy to draw up a light-curve for a variable star . |
| 17 | It is easy to draw up a list of opposed attitudes and values , based on this antithesis , such as the following : |
| 18 | No state has found it easy to give up an empire with dignity , but Mr Gorbachev is doing it now with extraordinary openness . |
| 19 | When pouring , it had been impossible to line up the bottles with the glasses , no matter how close she held the neck of a bottle to the rim of a glass . |
| 20 | Of course it 's not easy to keep up the smiles in public , as the couple showed in Seoul yesterday when they arrived for a five-day Korean visit . |
| 21 | On the adverse side , the field has become too small for comfort , and it is not easy to line up the binoculars on the target . |
| 22 | It will not be easy to speed up the system by which mentally disordered people are moved through the courts , prisons , NHS hospitals , Special Hospitals and , eventually , back into the normal community . |
| 23 | She could n't remember the names of the drinks they were ordering , and she found it nearly impossible to add up the prices of drinks for an entire table in her head . |
| 24 | WHEN LASMO Pakistan 's Mujadid Ali arrived in London in September 1991 to take up a place at London University , his first priority was concerned with degrees Fahrenheit rather than degrees academic . |
| 25 | On resigning in June 1991 to take up the post of union Defence Minister [ see p. 38288 ] he was replaced by Sudhakarrai Naik . |
| 26 | The Ballinascreen man , now 28 , is among those who are only too delighted to lap up the build-up to tomorrow week 's All Ireland final . |
| 27 | A communiqué issued after the meeting , originally scheduled for July 9 , said that ministers had agreed to " hold a meeting in September 1991 to follow up the implementation of the Damascus Declaration and to determine the priorities suitable for that " . |
| 28 | At the least it is likely to drive up the cost of borrowing . |
| 29 | In the UK , with only around 100 TBs on the register , the phrase ‘ that fast French aeroplane ’ is much more likely to conjure up a picture of the faithful Robin DR400 , a lovely aircraft but one which is in an altogether different class . |
| 30 | Many of those present had found it hard to pick up the thread of what he was saying and instead had thought with a shiver : " Needles driven into your belly ! |