Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [verb] up a [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | You are needed to cheer up a young 21-year-old male . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The government and the banks are considering setting up a national data system of business angels , it would probably have to be government funded . |
| 8 | On the basis of the pilot , we are starting to build up a clear picture of how general SVQs are working in practice . |
| 9 | No woman should be expected to bring up a large family on her own . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Show how software that allows alternate indexes to be created can be used to set up an inverted file system |
| 12 | AN £8 MILLION grant will be used to clean up a disused tin mine which turned an estuary red with pollution . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I 'm going to put up a good fight . |
| 16 | I 'm going to write up a suggested arrangement on the board now . |
| 17 | Thereafter , a general election would take place and the legislators would be invited to draw up a new constitution on Dominion lines . |
| 18 | I 'm beginning to build up a vague picture of this man . |
| 19 | The mackintoshes were still missing , however , and an outside stocktaker was to be appointed to draw up an annual inventory of all stocks of the institution . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm hoping to set up a special league . |
| 21 | Still it was hard when she 'd just been asked to blow up an orbiting city with almost a million inhabitants . |
| 22 | What has emerged from the studies examined in this paper is that workers are forced to take up an unsophisticated dependent position in the social organization of their enterprise . |
| 23 | Fist fights at the team 's base camp at Dunblane Hydro , a bender in Perth where two players were caught pissing up a close next to the town 's ‘ Shanghai Takeaway ’ , a euphoric send-off at Hampden Park , followed by defeat against Peru , a disgraceful match with Iran , a drug scandal and a piece of eleventh-hour magic which nearly overwhelmed the beaten finalists Holland . |
| 24 | Attempts are being made to set up a comprehensive " protection and control network " for pandas in China 's Sichuan province , according to officials of the Chengdu wildlife protection department . |
| 25 | A new bid is being made to set up a 25-stall weekly market on land at the rear of The Three Tuns Hotel , Murray Street , Filey , by Market Operators and Management . |
| 26 | Explosives were therefore concentrated on one pier , while the balance were used to blow up a small bridge over the Ginestra , a tributary of the Tragino , over which repair traffic would have to come . |
| 27 | Our intention was to fly low level VFR into French airspace , climb onto airways VFR , then , as we were expecting to catch up a cold front around Limoges , refile IFR and continue to our destination expecting an IFR approach with a reported cloud base of 600 to 800 ft . |
| 28 | Fires were started and there was looting after not guilty verdicts were pronounced on four white policemen who were filmed beating up a black man . |
| 29 | Some sailors were trying to put up a small sail , but the wind blew it out of their hands , away across the sea into the night . |
| 30 | The press were trying to build up a great rivalry between Ben and me , especially as I had never raced him . |