Example sentences of "[to-vb] up [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He never darkened its doors , but he thought it was the proper place for weddings and christenings and funerals , and he was always prepared to rig up lights for the annual parish nativity play , with a dimming spotlight to beam sentimentally on the Virgin Mary . |
| 2 | ARABLE farmers seeking to optimise returns from their crops will be able to pick up tips at the two-day Cereal ‘ 93 National Cereals and Combinable Crops Event , which gets under way tomorrow . |
| 3 | And , according to Mrs Aitken , Jake had no objections , so arrangements were made for Carol 's parents to pick up Kirsty on the appointed day . |
| 4 | In contrast to this move to open up broadcasting to the free market , there is the desire to monitor and control output . |
| 5 | Even after Khrushchev announced , at the Twentieth Congress of the Communist party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) in 1956 , that the Soviet Union had abandoned its strictly bipolar view of the world and was ready to open up relations with the developing nations , there was little change in Moscow 's attitude towards Latin America , which had recently been ‘ vindicated ’ by US covert involvement in the 1954 overthrow of the Arbenz government in Guatemala . |
| 6 | Example 2:16 Exceptions and reservations Excepting and reserving to the landlord : ( 1 ) Easement rights and privileges over the demised property corresponding to those expressly granted to the tenant over the other parts of the building ( 2 ) The right to build on develop deal with use any adjoining or neighbouring property retained by the landlord in such manner as he thinks fit even though the amenity of the demised property or the access of light or air thereto may be lessened thereby and without making any compensation to the tenant ( 3 ) The right at reasonable times and on reasonable notice ( except in emergency ) to enter the demised property for the purposes of ( i ) inspecting the condition and state of repair thereof ; ( ii ) carrying out any works ( whether of repair or otherwise ) for which the landlord or the tenant is liable under this lease ( iii ) carrying out any works ( whether of repair or otherwise ) to any property adjoining the demised property or to any party structure sewer drain or other thing used by the tenant in common with others ( iv ) measuring testing or valuing the demised property ( including the right to take samples of materials and to open up parts of the demised property which would otherwise be inaccessible ) but making good any damage caused by such an entry ( 4 ) The right for the landlord and the other tenants of the building to pass through the demised property in case of fire or other emergency Example 2:17 Definition of service pipes ' " service pipe " means any pipe , drain , sewer , flue , duct , gutter , wire , cable , optic fibre , conduit , channel or other means of passage or transmission of water , soil , gas , air , smoke , electricity , light , information or other matter and all ancillary equipment or structures |
| 7 | It should begin to open up negotiations with the statutory services which come under the SAD umbrella to see what sort of progress should be made on this . |
| 8 | Captain Margaret is the owner of the privateer The Broken Heart with which he intends to open up trade in the Spanish Main with the Indians whom he hopes to rescue from the harsh exploitation of Spanish settlers . |
| 9 | With Sir John Leveson , he was ordered to set up provision for the poor and to enforce the order of Privy Council of 1598 , and by this order they were both assessed in the Parish of Halling , Sir John for 7s 4d and Lambarde 6s and the whole total for Halling being £4 5s 8d . |
| 10 | A clever employee would be able to set up business outside the restricted area and be able to serve former customers from there if ( a ) did not exist . |
| 11 | For example , if there were a sudden selling of sterling ( due , say , to bad trade figures and a resulting fear that the pound would depreciate ) , the Bank of England could help to prevent the pound from falling by using reserves to buy up pounds on the foreign exchange market . |
| 12 | Once a rabid animal has been found in the area , staff would be issued with protective clothing to round up animals in the surrounding district . |
| 13 | This benefit allows you to deduct the years when you were required to give up work from the normal qualifying period for a basic pension and so , in effect , shorten the number of years when you would otherwise have been required to make contributions . |
| 14 | Of necessity , regulators have to build up contacts with the regulated . |
| 15 | We take community policing to be a style which emphasizes the development of good relations between police and community , normally via active police involvement in , and contact with , the local community , and by deploying manpower in such a way that officers patrol a ‘ beat ’ on foot in order to build up familiarity with the local area . |
| 16 | When planning a rotation , it is very helpful to draw up a long-term scheme and dovetail the various crops into the seasons , at the same time ensuring that each field comes into the rotation in its turn and is then put back in grass to build up fertility for the requisite period . |
| 17 | Dulles went on to form another of his much-favoured regional pacts — the Baghdad Pact ( 1955 ) , which included the USA , Britain , Iran , Iraq and Pakistan — to build up power around the Soviet defence perimeter . |
| 18 | It may be that the Breton expedition was intended to keep up pressure on the French to make the sort of concessions the English would feel able to accept , but it is equally possible that the confused direction of English policy reflected conflicting influences at court . |
| 19 | The sleeping-bag began to soak up tea from the steaming groundsheet , and I screamed , ‘ Damn ! |
| 20 | Here much could be achieved by freeing the existing facilities from obstructions and by introducing short-cuts to link up parts of the present network . |
| 21 | Officers joined their men , directing them to take up positions in the main access tunnels , while the main group was despatched to keep an eye on the dock area . |
| 22 | A few people remained to take up lives in the new Wadi Halfa , a bleak tenuous place which sprang up where the railway line from Khartoum comes to an apparently arbitrary end against a low wall of sleepers . |
| 23 | Many officers resigned their commissions to take up jobs with the new company . |
| 24 | The relationship between herbivores and plants has often been seen as some kind of arms race , but there have been opposing views in that , for example , spittle-bugs in the dry tropics of West Africa , rather than depleting valuable water resources may promote microbial activity beneath particular tree species , allowing them to take up nutrients in the dry season from the surface layers of the soil , provided that other roots can tap a deep water source . |
| 25 | Many who moved were glad to do so and the economy as a whole has benefited from the release of agricultural labour to take up employment in the expanding manufacturing and service sectors . |
| 26 | The sensor measures alkalinity and when the level falls below a pre-set value it activates a pump that delivers product from a bulk container to the tank in sufficient quantity to make up solution to the desired strength . |
| 27 | What many fear is that , despite negotiated settlements ’ being fashionable in other parts of the world , the US will be more than happy to leave El Salvador to Arena , freeing it to step up aid to the Nicaraguan contras and removing , once and for all , any chance of success for the peace plan being negotiated by the five Central American presidents , which has never been supported by the US . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , the Government has stepped in to underwrite the cost of bomb damage to shore up confidence in the British insurance industry and the reputation of the City of London as a world financial centre although that , ironically , may encourage just as much as it may discourage the IRA . |
| 29 | THE BELGIAN government has put off a decision on whether to stump up cash for the nuclear plant being built by France at Chooz — a finger of France sucking into Belgian territory . |