Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun pl] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the figures are quite clear that there are benefits of having in-house erm erm , fields that can compete against the private sector for county council work , and the fear , and the reason why they were set up in the first place , to make sure that you could n't have outside erm , er or private organisations setting up cartels to basically screw the local government down , and charge whatever price they want and con us through and through . |
| 2 | We spent two or three hours bagging up clothes to take to the charity shops . |
| 3 | On the night of April 27/28 , 1942 , a force of 31 Halifaxes from 10 , 35 and 76 Squadrons and 12 Lancasters from 44 and 97 Squadrons flew up Faetten Fjord in a desperate attempt to inflict damage or sink the Tirpitz . |
| 4 | Then a short blast and six monitors took up position at the top of the lower playground . |
| 5 | Because of her international success and recognition , Meyer is one of the personalities South Africa is using to encourage more and more youngsters from the townships and under-developed areas to take up sport . |
| 6 | Until human beings take up roles in an enterprise , it is merely a collection of buildings and plant . |
| 7 | Campaigns to save the whales have led to the International Whaling Commission gradually lowering its quotas and many nations giving up whaling in favour of protectionist policies . |
| 8 | This causes massive expansion of air , and demonic winds churn up dust so that one seems to be walking on the bed of a murky sea . |
| 9 | This collection was in the care of the Royal College of Surgeons ; and other medical societies and medical schools built up museums where the student could study at leisure , augmenting what he had learned from lectures and dissections and at the bedside . |
| 10 | The professional and managerial classes made up 18% of the population in 1971 : their children formed 51% of university entrants in 1975 and 54% in 1979 . |
| 11 | The banks were found to have delayed interest rate cuts to individual customers and small businesses to keep up profits . |
| 12 | Here , too , came Gladstone and other politicians to whip up support . |
| 13 | It had rained for a fortnight when he , his wife and two children took up residence in the 12 room Ben Alder Lodge . |
| 14 | News of the disposal and the £75m profit BAT will reap from the deal sent shares in the tobacco and financial services conglomerate up 9p to 745p . |
| 15 | As medical staffing budgets are finite any increase in the number of career registrars and senior registrars uses up money that would otherwise be available for expanding the number of consultants . |
| 16 | If governing bodies set up finance committees as part of a school 's organization to meet the requirements of local management , governors and parents are more likely to be able to be involved in management decisions . |
| 17 | The peasant revolt that broke out in February 1921 in the Tambov guberniia threatened to cut off rail connections between Moscow and the Volga region , since hungry peasants held up wheat trains and ransacked them . |
| 18 | My wilful grasp upon it had been entirely unproblematic , as sure as neat fingers picking up pins , or knitting , and then casting off the atomic stitches of the material world . |
| 19 | As more women take up exercise , there is an urgent need to know about its effects on the outcome of pregnancy . |
| 20 | Hot-rodding was born when young men souped up vehicles and raced along the black-top roads and dry lake beds around Los Angeles in the 1940s and 1950s . |
| 21 | This is expected to be the first of many similar cases to come to light as local councils draw up registers of contaminated land under the Environmental Protection Act . |