Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [verb] up [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have no intention of wiping out the WPBSA or of setting up an alternative governing body , ’ Hearn said . |
| 2 | A disagreement between D and E could be referred to B ; whereas a disagreement between D and F would need to be settled either by B and C together ( using their pooled authority ) or by appealing up the scalar chain to A. |
| 3 | When seen , they are all worth trying to preserve , perhaps by postponing cutting back until the eggs have hatched , or by hitching up the egg-bearing leaves among the remaining foliage . |
| 4 | The only disappointment was that after opening up a 50-point lead at the beginning of August , they failed to win any of the next four matches . |
| 5 | France 's Carrefour did just that by setting up a hard-discount subsidiary , Erteco , in the mid-1980s . |
| 6 | Elena knew instinctively that by building up a separate cult of herself — in many ways more spurious and grotesque than anything created for her husband — she was laying the foundations for her own take-over in the event of Nicolae 's death . |
| 7 | They undoubtedly deserve them for being flexible enough to listen to the people and to bodies like the Royal Fine Arts Commission and for thinking up the innovative scheme itself . |
| 8 | In spite of the social dislocation and consumer privations that Stalinism wrought , it must be said that the ruthless and heavy-handed mobilisation of human and economic resources did succeed in achieving impressive growth rates and in building up a solid industrial infrastructure in what , with the exceptions of Germany and Czechoslovakia , had been largely agrarian countries . |
| 9 | Britain 's Paul Curran escaped as the race entered Liverpool but after opening up a 10-second gap , he was caught by Illingworth , Australia 's Patrick Jonker and Denmark 's Kim Marcussen as they entered the circuit with 11 miles to go . |
| 10 | It seems that we would be much better off if we spent money not on constructing a barrage but on cleaning up the various sewage works that I have castigated over the years . |
| 11 | ‘ It was bad luck on Darryll Holland , who probably would have been riding here but for picking up a four-day suspension . |