Example sentences of "[Wh det] [modal v] [verb] up a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judge the timing of the research carefully , advised Ms Morris ; a key sales period , Christmas for example , would not be typical , neither were school holidays , which might throw up a biased sample . |
| 2 | In the late 1690s the Scottish government gave its support to a proposal intended to enable the country to escape from all its economic problems : a trading company was to be launched which would set up a commercial centre at Darien on the Panama Isthmus . |
| 3 | Another new instrument that the Commission will be considering next year is a revised draft of the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture , which would set up an international system of visits to places of detention , aimed at preventing torture and ill-treatment . |
| 4 | I expect to find rich pickings in the Ministry of Defence , with its townships , its airfields , its office blocks , its country houses , its sailors ' hostel in South Kensington and its acreage of land which would make up an English county . |
| 5 | This allows the user to list a number of programs which will fill up a complete disk , or more than one disk . |
| 6 | Many sacks use texturised nylon fabrics with a sort of natural feel which can take up a certain amount of moisture but dry off quickly . |