Example sentences of "[to-vb] up a [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chartered company continued to be regarded as the best type of organization for carrying on overseas trade , but a grant to an individual proprietor began to be seen as the best way to set up a new colony to which settlers would come to cultivate the land . |
| 2 | They had to come up with a plan of action on how to set up a Tyrolean Traverse to safety cross the 80 foot wide gorge — and come back again . |
| 3 | Labour is committed to introducing during its first year in power a Bill to set up a Scottish parliament to be elected by proportional representation . |
| 4 | President Clinton has given his staff two months to draw up a balanced solution to the continuing controversy over the logging of the Pacific North-West old-growth forests — fiercely opposed by conservationists , but strongly defended as economically essential by many local people . |
| 5 | Perhaps , one is tempted to retort , much in the spirit of Mary Jane and ‘ lovely rice pudding again' , it helps to build up a life-long resistance to anything judged to be a ‘ classic ’ . |
| 6 | Opponents of sales see them as reducing a vital social resource built up at the ratepayers ' expense , while proponents see sales to long-standing tenants as almost a recourse to ‘ natural justice ’ , although there are also the political overtones of the desire of Conservative politicians to build up a property-owning base to their vote . |
| 7 | To be able to ‘ identify what their interests and ideas might be ’ is to take up a political stance to life at work . |
| 8 | The transferability and the value of the culture of higher education to society lie not in the acquisition of specific competencies , but in the propensity of graduates to take up a sceptical stance to what they come across ( in truth claims , in concept , in value , in ways of going on ) . |