Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [verb] up [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Soviet neutralisation plan for the Persian Gulf may have been intended to open up a strategic dialogue on a broad front to enable Soviet diplomats to introduce Western military preponderance in the Gulf region tacitly or explicitly into the negotiation process for the limitation of Soviet military influence in other regions . |
| 2 | Our policy has been to try to build up a great team and not to weaken our playing strength , and it was for this reason that we accepted the offer made . |
| 3 | Supplements therefore are designed to make up the basic food ingredients and balance them to keep the horse healthy . |
| 4 | The two local favourites , Claire Waddell , who currently leads the Grand Prix , and Julie Nicol are expected to make up the semi-final line-up . |
| 5 | They are itching to hold up the red card to an establishment that does n't believe that ex-pros have the right pedigree to control top matches . |
| 6 | In fact , we 've stolen some nuclear weapons and we 're going to tell the government we 're going to blow up the whole country unless they let us play Wembley . ’ |
| 7 | Peter Hunter , secretary of the NALGO Pro-Life Group , at a recent meeting of NALGO supporters told of the disgraceful waste of union resources which are used to prop up the national Abortion Campaign , to which NALGO is affiliated . |
| 8 | In the US , Social Security numbers are available and are used to build up a unique individual record , so all historical credit and demographic data can be allocated to an individual record with complete confidence . |
| 9 | Indeed , when you want to identify a particular peak from the boulevard , you are told to line up a white mark painted on the balustrade with ‘ the lightning-conductor on the tram factory ’ , which is the most prominent landmark in Pau 's southerly suburb . |
| 10 | Another problem which electric fish have circumvented is that very sensitive receptors are needed to pick up the weak signals of other fish , and such receptors would be swamped by the fish 's own field . |
| 11 | You are needed to cheer up a young 21-year-old male . |
| 12 | The 16 tonne lorry depositing a load is one of the 7,500 that are needed to make up the specified contours . |
| 13 | While just one byte can represent a whole character of text and therefore convey at least some intelligible meaning , thousands , even millions of bytes are needed to build up a single image , particularly if it is in colour and of high resolution . |
| 14 | There were tracks in the cooled fat where chunks of bread had been used to mop up the tasty juices of the meal . |
| 15 | The herd tends to flee together and the stripes are thought to jumble up the individual shapes and make the fleeing herd look like one great mass of black and white patterning . |
| 16 | The government and the banks are considering setting up a national data system of business angels , it would probably have to be government funded . |
| 17 | On the basis of the pilot , we are starting to build up a clear picture of how general SVQs are working in practice . |
| 18 | No woman should be expected to bring up a large family on her own . |
| 19 | Debriefed in fine detail by Donleavy and DIA agent Neal Miller , largely to see what could be done to patch up a new link with the Asmar network , Coleman was told to keep the video gear pending a resolution of ‘ this goddamn DEA fuck-up ’ and to take charge of Syrian George , who , as it happened , had arrived two days earlier on his J-1 visa and was staying at the International House on the University of Alabama campus . |
| 20 | I hope that the Minister will listen carefully to the call from the Opposition and ensure that when privatisation takes place , the golden opportunity will not be missed to set up the Scottish bus passenger consultative committee , which , we hope , will examine customers ' complaints and safeguard their interests . |
| 21 | The legislation will be used to back up the federal government 's high court case , due to be heard at the end of May , which is seeking a permanent injunction against the power project . |
| 22 | Show how software that allows alternate indexes to be created can be used to set up an inverted file system |
| 23 | AN £8 MILLION grant will be used to clean up a disused tin mine which turned an estuary red with pollution . |
| 24 | Maybe they could be used to build up the spiritual life . |
| 25 | My garage is to be demolished very soon and I am worried that the pneumatic drill which may be used to break up the concrete base will upset or even kill my fish in a pond about 20′ away . |
| 26 | Bulletin boards and list servers can be structured like company e-mail in that subsections can be used to follow up a particular discussion or to follow through all the different accounts and editions so that one person can go back and read the whole story from the beginning to the last entry . |
| 27 | There 's a certain amount of history because the moon is if if the earth is spinning round the moon is going round the water that the moon is attracting will be rushing to catch up a little bit . |
| 28 | I 'm going to put up a good fight . |
| 29 | I 'm going to write up a suggested arrangement on the board now . |
| 30 | Thereafter , a general election would take place and the legislators would be invited to draw up a new constitution on Dominion lines . |