Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [to-vb] up a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Dutch might have been willing to see a world without territorial empire , if only it had been possible to keep up a trading system on that basis . |
| 2 | Manager Mickey Duff has had talks with Coetzer 's management who are prepared to set up a deal . |
| 3 | How could she tell him that Peter 's ‘ intervention ’ had only been supposed to take up a week of her time ? |
| 4 | The idea is to join the words from the books with the pictures , although even children who cant read are able to call up a word list so they can join the words and pictures by association . |
| 5 | He may have been reluctant to give up a conquest of his illustrious forbear , Julius Caesar . |
| 6 | One reason is that owners are often stronger than intruders , which are animals too weak to have been able to set up a territory . |
| 7 | Well I hope you 've been able to pick up a bit of something but I 'm not very good at it myself cos old days and old times . |
| 8 | There were other reasons for insecurity , too : no matter how much material prosperity had come a family 's way , there was still every chance that illness or a premature death might send them all back down a snake at a much faster speed than they had been able to climb up a ladder . |
| 9 | Detetives still have n't been able to build up a description of the attacker but they believe he may have worked with horses in the past . |
| 10 | He was a hard worker , but Jane marvelled at how he had been able to build up a business while remaining practically unintelligible . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm sorry to bring up a thing like this , Stevens . |
| 12 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that it would be right to set up a retraining scheme for soon-to-be-redundant members of the shadow Cabinet ? |
| 13 | I seriously doubt if it would be possible to put up a climb like this without bolts , particularly as the rock is not beyond suspicion . |
| 14 | In sum , it should be possible to draw up a list of factors relevant to a decision whether to embark on re-investigation . |
| 15 | ‘ I can see how it might be possible to bring up a family here . |
| 16 | How many of us would be prepared to give up a year or more of life to pay back a debt from which we never benefitted , to satisfy the banks ? |
| 17 | It may be impossible to draw up a fitness league table but it is possible to say that complexity has increased during evolution . |
| 18 | I am sure Lennie Lawrence , Steve Gritt and Allan Curbishley would be delighted to take up a teaching post . |
| 19 | T. D. You might be glad to lock up a drunk to get out of the rain for a while . |
| 20 | Before looking further at the way this assumption was developed , it would be useful to clear up a confusion that may arise in the use of the category ‘ positivist criminology ’ . |
| 21 | Er Ma'am I think it would be helpful to pick up a point you made in relation to the R Royal Society of Birds , Royal Soci R S P B. |
| 22 | I do not intend to list all the normal things Excel can do — just take it for granted that you will be able to set up a spreadsheet to calculate whatever you want to — but I want to concentrate on some of the features that will certainly save time , effort , and head scratching . |
| 23 | ‘ In South Africa I would not be able to set up a company like I will be doing for Cummins in Russia . |
| 24 | Should you be successful , you will be able to pick up a bounty on each of them . ’ |
| 25 | I understand that this scheme will be able to light up a town of about 30,000 people , just as my hon. Friend can today , almost single-handedly , light up her constituency . |
| 26 | In each case the minister may be able to back up a recommendation with indirect weapons : by control over loans and other powers to permit or limit activities , by co-operation or its refusal in situations in which joint central local action is necessary . |
| 27 | The most obvious possibility is to be able to call up a video window on the screen which can deliver a helpline operator 's face and words and enable you to resolve your problem . |
| 28 | By 1990 , 1 understand , everyone in France with a phone will be able to call up a display of any number he wants , in just 15 seconds . |
| 29 | Apparently no known tank force could break through a six-lane snarl-up , so the authorities have to be able to whistle up a traffic jam within minutes . |
| 30 | Using a technique perfected by medical artists , they hope to be able to build up a picture of what the princess would have looked like twenty centuries ago . |