Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] up the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What the maker has done has been to start with a 12-fret guitar design ( not a guitar with only twelve frets , but a guitar with a neck that joins at the 12th as opposed to the 14th fret ) and then he 's combined this with a deep cutaway on the treble side to open up the whole fingerboard for exploration . |
| 2 | The Comintern , completely disregarding their past policy , called upon " all Communist Parties to make yet another attempt to set up the united front of struggle with the social democratic workers through the medium of the social democratic parties " . |
| 3 | According to Santiago O ate , attorney-general for environmental protection , the government has already invested $400 million in a programme to clean up the industrial zone on the US border , home to many of the so-called maquiladora industries , which locate there to take advantage of Mexico 's relatively lax pollution regulations . |
| 4 | In an attempt to sharpen up the spongy brakes on my IIa , I am working on a process of elimination and the next venture was going to be flushing the system and changing the fluid . |
| 5 | It occurred to us that either the gap between the rich and the poor had become much wider than anyone had ever imagined and that these people had not a clue about our reality or else their campaigns were a deliberate conspiracy to cover up the real cause of our appalling health record . |
| 6 | Scientists and engineers at the conference , however , foresaw a major collaboration between academics and European financiers who would seek a permit to put up the estimated $130 million to design the garbage ships and capsules . |
| 7 | The move also meant that the £10 BILLION spent by the Bank of England yesterday in a bid to prop up the sliding currency was wasted . |
| 8 | The client may feel the deal has been negotiated and merely wants the lawyer to tie up the loose ends . |
| 9 | In the bold decision to set up the Kurdish safe-havens and the no-fly zones in northern and southern Iraq after the Gulf war , and the decision to intervene militarily in Somalia , we see a significant departure from the principle of absolute sovereignty over domestic matters . |
| 10 | The Composers Pen instrument screen enables the user to set up the basic layout of the score . |
| 11 | She was wiping a crust of bread round the inside of her dish to catch up the last drops of broth . |
| 12 | The changes were more a reflection of her anti-establishment outlook and determination to shake up the civil service hierarchy . |
| 13 | Far more controversial is the CHA proposal to open up the 1984 Canada Health Act . |
| 14 | When the dashing Cigognes arrived they pounced with glee on the dispersed German planes flying up and down in the ‘ barrage ’ , tearing through it with impunity to shoot up the Drachen balloons , the vital eyes of the German artillery . |
| 15 | In Alessio Rospigliosi had already turned away from the heavily exploited areas of classical mythology and Christian epic to open up the unpromising vein of hagiology ; he now struck an infinitely more successful one . |
| 16 | And zips out for a quick change into a respectable blazer ( one of Aunt Rebecca 's unused presents , a recent salvo in the family campaign to smarten up the recalcitrant niece ) and an unrumpled pair of cords . |
| 17 | I compare the Government 's record to the experience I once had of helping to redecorate a pensioner 's home to brighten up the dingy gloom . |
| 18 | Er you need to have a much more all round variety of exercise to build up the different things . |
| 19 | He had no idea what an effort it had been for Topaz to keep up the easy flow of chatter . |
| 20 | The first stanza of the poem concentrates on a small incident and is specific about the power of the sun to wake up the dead soldier as it used to when he slept in a field . |
| 21 | He bought groceries to last him the week , then popped next door to the frame shop to pick up the stainless steel frame he 'd ordered for a James Barker black and white print he 'd obtained in an auction some weeks before . |
| 22 | I never understood why we got in the tangled bureaucratic mess of the community charge to pick up the tiny amount of 3 million out of 42.5 million people . |
| 23 | If he falls below these ( or similar ) agreed targets we have the right to open up the EFTI market in Warsaw . |
| 24 | Previously active in the southern department of Cauca , it became the fourth guerrilla group to give up the armed struggle following the example of the M-19 [ see p. 37311 ] , the People 's Liberation Army ( EPL ) and the Workers ' Revolutionary Party ( PRT ) [ see p. 38094 ] , each of which had returned to mainstream politics . |
| 25 | The Bank also uses the Exchange Equalization Account to intervene in the foreign exchange market by buying up surplus sterling to keep up the external value of the pound . |
| 26 | Although much of the attention at the summit was inevitably focused on the changes in Eastern Europe and the drive towards monetary union , the starting point for the talks , particularly from the British delegation 's viewpoint , was the need to speed up the 1992 reforms . |
| 27 | One of the problems with the dominant Fabianism of UK social policy is its failure to take up the epistemological implications of this commitment to change . |
| 28 | For his part Ivashko promised following his election to give up the Ukrainian CP leadership , and at a party congress on June 22-23 he was replaced as first secretary by his former deputy , Stanislav Gurenko . |
| 29 | This way of thinking is probably healthier than the one which sees evangelism as synonymous with an evangelistic crusade to fill up the existing churches ' buildings , and make existing churches stronger . |
| 30 | I had occasion to set up the chunky machine ( this had to go in the bedroom , because of lack of space elsewhere ) . |