Example sentences of "[be] [verb] up [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | The response has been to bolster up the procedural checks attendant upon the disbursement of such benefits . |
2 | THE mix-up that means two families may have been bringing up the wrong babies could have happened in a fire alert , it emerged yesterday . |
3 | You know they 're putting up the electric lines |
4 | Some of the villages on the edge of the Baronnies look all too spruce , as if the locals had by now given way completely to immigrants wealthier than themselves , who are buying up the old houses and adding new , sometimes crassly intrusive ones . |
5 | TWO heartbroken families may be bringing up the wrong babies . |
6 | That is why it is so important that , as one of the conclusions of the Maastricht settlement , it was agreed that the 12 countries should set up an organisation loosely known as Europol whose first job would be to set up a Europeanwide drugs intelligence unit among the Twelve , which should lead to a greater level of co-operation with our continental partners to stop Ecstasy and other drugs coming into the country . |
7 | Royalty was to be one-twelfth and this to be paid at the end of every half-year : the said ore to be weighed up every three months and the banks to be cleared at the end of every such three months after weighing up . |
8 | We 'll be making up the lost hours tonight and on Monday . |
9 | In the next few months , with British taxpayers ' money , we shall be setting up a national drugs intelligence unit in Czechoslovakia to try to intercept drugs coming overland . |
10 | We looked through the files to see how the big men at the top are sizing up the hard decisions in a man 's life |
11 | These , with certain trace elements , are taken up the woody fibres and much of the water evaporates at the leaf surfaces , while photosynthesis takes place . |
12 | The prime task of the 1905 revolution had been to break up the large estates and with them the political and economic power of the nobility . |
13 | This time we were to follow up the three months with a twelve-week season at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven , Connecticut . |
14 | It was the random collisions melding the rocky substances , plus turbulent accretions , that were to make up the inner planets . |
15 | And an RUC Special Branch officer had been beaten up a few weeks previously after going to meet his UFF informer in Belfast 's York Road district . |
16 | I think she 's picked up a few pointers , like how to chop an onion and how to dissolve an Oxo cube . |
17 | John Hutchinson is writing up an initial impressions report of the work in the region . |
18 | Charles Saatchi once said : ‘ The reason most companies make an acquisition is to cover up the dreadful mistakes of the last acquisition . ’ |
19 | As suggested elsewhere , one of the problems with selection is giving up the attractive paths that are not being chosen . |
20 | And the introduction about about care is passed up the three tiers , like a triangular system 's |
21 | In protest , she 's leaving up the wooden boards across the window . |
22 | Stuart King of the Management Training Centre at Kingswood is setting up a new resources centre , but it is far less ambitious . |
23 | Critics have argued that QALY theory is attractive as long as we are considering one person who is weighing up the likely outcomes with different treatments . |
24 | It appears that the German Infantry facing the Marines has surrendered , and now No. 4 Commando Brigade are following up the retreating Germans . |
25 | As Hennessy was opening up the grey lockers at the end of the room , Donaldson spelt Bobo again . |
26 | Susan , an unwonted flush on her pale cheeks , was picking up the wet things out of the grate . |
27 | His intention was to pick up the 18,000 troops assembled in the area behind Quiberon known as the Morbihan and transport them to Scotland , as the first stage of the great invasion plan . |
28 | His task was to set up a dummy gems firm in Bombay . |
29 | I assumed you 'd want to know that wreckage of a dinghy was washed up a few miles north of here on the Welsh coast last night . |
30 | However , a new 375g pack at £1.19 was introduced on February 8th and until the old stock was used up the two packs were on sale side by side . |