Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [verb] up the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 be appointed with responsibility for setting up the district-wide programme .
2 One widely used criterion for dividing up the cerebral cortex is the organization of inputs from the thalamus .
3 We are fortunate to have been able to offer opportunities to Scottish Amicable staff as a result of setting up the dedicated administration unit .
4 No harm in picking up the extra dough , so long as I was doing my client 's work at the same time . ’
5 The loss from taking up the unsubscribed shares is calculated as the difference between the market price on the last day of the offer and the subscription price , where n is equal to the number of shares taken up by the underwriters , P , i , m ; is the market price on the last day of the offer , P , i , s ; is the subscription price .
6 The consequence of that is that we 've seen a continuation of road-building schemes which have caused considerable damage to the countryside , devastated communities and have no real hope of soaking up the so-called demand for new roads .
7 Hoving 's gushings are just as tiresome as his nastiness : his description of warming up the cantankerous Robert Lehman ( estranged from the museum over what the collector believed to be an anti-Semitic slight ) recalls similar scenes in Shirley Temple films , the main difference being that presumably Hoving did n't sit on Lehman 's lap .
8 France signed an agreement with China whereby in return for giving up the territorial concessions in the treaty ports , handing over the Yunnan railway , and meeting sundry other Chinese demands , they agreed to withdraw their troops from Indo-China by 15 March .
9 In particular there is concern within the British civil aviation industry about the level of costs being incurred by the CAA , and recovered from industry , in its work towards setting up the European Joint Aviation Authority and associated regulatory functions , particularly in this formative period when the British Authority continues to function as an autonomous body whose charges must also be borne by operators .
10 In this land of the lawyer , there is no more appropriate place for picking up the social , business and political threads of the city than a spectacle viewed from the public benches of a federal court .
11 the relaxing garden terrace and very peaceful swimming pool are a fantastic place for soaking up the long hot days in the sun , and the pool is served throughout the day by a restaurant/bar .
12 If the tile has simply slipped out of place but is undamaged ( that is , it still has its hanging ‘ nibs ’ on the back ) , you should be able to slide it back into place after easing up the surrounding tiles under wood wedges .
13 I 'd just like to raise a point that erm most men are psychiat , er mo most of the psychiatrists are men and that a lot of the diagnosis I feel , come from a very sort of patriarchal view erm , you know a lot of have sort of brought up the alternative sort of er medicine and er self-help groups , and to me , having been through psychiatry which is a , a huge machine that is very difficult to get out that er to me , that 's the only future and there 's millions of pounds going into psychiatry and we 're reviewing it now with community care plans which , I I do n't think anybody is actually clear about but er , you know , the the millions that are put into psychiatry , I 'd like to see more sort of counselling er , become available or , more money given to sort of er mental health associations .
14 Your camcorder 's microphone will no doubt do a first-rate job of picking up the general sound atmosphere , or ambience .
15 Oh yes we used to get the job of sewing up the wee cushions .
16 The 24-year-old sweeper will lose three days ’ wages for deserting his father 's electrical business to take on the infinitely more difficult job of shoring up the leakiest defence in international soccer .
17 It was not until James Watt , instrument maker at Glasgow University , was given the job of repairing a model Newcomen steam engine , that a major breakthrough was made in the business of powering up the early beginnings of the industrial world .
18 The point implicit in the hon. Gentleman 's question is : what is the point of putting up the top rate of tax if one raises less revenue ?
19 ‘ We are desperate to raise funds for research and are in the process of setting up the British Brain Tumour Association .
20 As we argued throughout the proceedings of the European parliamentary elections bill , the Conservatives are entirely responsible for the fact that this process of drawing up the new European boundaries had to be compressed into such a short time .
21 You can practically see it in the process of covering up the feeble attempts at civilization .
22 He did not win : the executive in charge of setting up the European offices was the dynamic ex-sheriff of Caribou , Idaho , named William Swift Daliba , who could toss a silver dollar in the air and plug it with his six-gun .
23 So I am encouraged in my perhaps natural naïveté , I am encouraged to be simpliste , by my knowledge of the value of complication in fogging up the real issues in politics .
24 — who are taking the lead in setting up the new Divisions — are now starting discussions , where necessary backed by targeted groups to take our thinking forward .
25 The vibration from breaking up the concrete floor certainly would disturb your fish but there is also the added problem of lime dust from the work contaminating the pond .
26 This is a very nasty rip-off trick to play on the unsuspecting public as a petrol crank will last until well out of the guarantee period before giving up the unequal struggle .
27 He was formerly the general secretary of the Electrical Trades Union , though ( like Citrine ) he had had to resign his union post on taking up the new managerial appointment .
28 Before this the tree roots held the soil in place by soaking up the heavy rain and letting it go slowly .
29 a facility for drawing up the next plan in the light of the
30 Frustrated foxes , singing birds , enchanted islands and smiling Chinamen are scattered in a splendid excess of modelling up the trailing vines of inspired invention .
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