Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [verb] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Fallon was told some forces in previous years have not been able to take up the extra posts , which have then been redistributed to other places . |
| 2 | She very much doubted Madeleine would be prepared to give up the good time she was having to settle down in the country on Harry 's salary . |
| 3 | It was good fortune for BR to be able to pick up the 1938 survivors — only retained into the 1980s to bail out the Northern Line from a vast increase in traffic . |
| 4 | ‘ With the power of the TARDIS , this brain soup character will be able to screw up the whole universe . |
| 5 | American bilateral agreements that permitted fifth freedom rights especially alarmed the British , as they believed that the United States would be able to scoop up the best routes in a piecemeal fashion . |
| 6 | Mr Reid will not be available to take up the full-time post until next October , although he becomes chairman-designate on January 1 . |
| 7 | It 's truly portable , and can be run from a PP-3 9-volt battery , but for longer sessions ti would be wise to hook up the supplied mains transformer . |
| 8 | But before you even think about rest you 'll be eager to soak up the special intimate atmosphere of Sunwing — chatting at the bars , tucking into the superb breakfast buffet , eating in the à la carte restaurant or having a pool-side snack , the emphasis is on fun and friendliness . |
| 9 | Engineers were quick to shore up the weakened Botley Road Flyover in Oxford as soon as they found corroded support wires in the spans . |
| 10 | June 1941 , German forces launched their surprise attack and were able to break up the Russian formations and take a huge number of prisoners . |
| 11 | The theological colleges were eager to take up the new opportunities and transfer the teaching of arts subjects to the new colleges and universities . |
| 12 | It is a contradiction which thousands happily go along with because they are keen to advance up the social ladder . |
| 13 | My client is supposed to pay up the black money then . ’ |
| 14 | Coal is likely to make up the largest part of UK energy demand in the year 2000 at 32% , slightly more than oil at 30% . |
| 15 | It is hard to divide up the Basque hinterland in any manageable way in order to describe it ; here , I shall stick to the three provinces recognized in it by the Basques themselves , of Labourd , Basse-Navarre and the Soule . |
| 16 | But worse still , if the pilot is able to pick up the dropped wing after the initial swing , because of the acceleration the controls suddenly become effective , and this often results in the other wing touching just as the aircraft becomes airborne . |
| 17 | Yet a team which is happy to pick up the odd win among the world 's soccer minnows went on to better it against an England side with pretensions to be among the best . |
| 18 | To invoke these programs , it is necessary to set up the DCL verbs as follows : |
| 19 | To invoke these programs , it is necessary to set up the DCL verbs as described in Appendix F. |
| 20 | The Indonesian government is keen to push up the local content of cars . |
| 21 | However , doubt arose over whether Kazakhstan was prepared to give up the nuclear weapons on its territory , as it had earlier stated and as Yeltsin was assuring it would . |
| 22 | The conclusion must be that neither side of industry was prepared to give up the old ways of doing things to achieve full employment . |
| 23 | Conservative privatisation was supposed to break up the big monopolies and make them more competitive and accountable to the public empty propaganda indeed . |
| 24 | ‘ We wanted to record ‘ Polar Bear ’ ( mooted third single ) like it was on the LP — you know , more of a dancey sort of thing — it would have been too light to put out as single , and ‘ Then ’ was good to back up the first year of The Charlatans . |
| 25 | ‘ We wanted to record ‘ Polar Bear ’ ( mooted third single ) like it was on the LP — you know , more of a dancey sort of thing — it would have been too light to put out as single , and ‘ Then ’ was good to back up the first year of The Charlatans . |
| 26 | Both his sisters kissed him — another first — and Kitty had to have her hand prised out of his before Charlie was able to pick up the brown paper parcel that contained all his worldly goods . |