Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [verb] up [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Below the sober exterior , though , one suspects that there 's a bit of an animal lurking — and switching in the graphic equaliser and voice filter ( after having connected up the sub-woofer extension cabinet ) opens the cage door fairly wide . |
| 2 | Bonn can plainly not afford the political price of continuing to shore up the German Democratic Republic with billions of Deutsche Marks unless in return for genuine reform . |
| 3 | In fact , it is only a slight exaggeration to say that the main deterrent effect of monopoly policy has been not the threat of what changes might be required as a result of the MMC investigation , but the threat of having to tie up a large quantity of senior executives ' time to argue the firm 's case in the event that its activities attract a reference to the MMC . |
| 4 | Yet he has allowed the excess creation of credit to continue , and has not used the obvious policy of overfunding to mop up the excess money supply . |
| 5 | Instead of trying to break up the real shape of the animal , it attempts to make it appear flatter than it is . |
| 6 | Whether you are attracted to the beauty and tranquillity of Lake Saimaa or the historic and cultural wealth of Leningrad , perestroika can be thanked for having opened up a fascinating new cruising ground accessible to those looking for fresh places to visit , as well as being a potential charter area . |
| 7 | He revisited the USA in 1917 to play a decisive part in helping to set up the first official American military intelligence service . |
| 8 | One should therefore think very carefully and far ahead before deciding to break up a good permanent pasture : it is a slow , costly , and difficult task to get it back . |
| 9 | It is important , therefore , before attempting to build up a successful front for the furtherance of your career , first to ensure that the real attitude behind the front is one that will support it on all occasions . |
| 10 | Hawkins withdrew from this dangerous line of business , though he felt his enterprise in trying to open up a new line of trade deserved recognition and he put a black slave on his coat-of-arms . |
| 11 | There is intense perceived pain in contemplating giving up the mood-altering substance or behaviour and making further major changes in these " pictures " of reality . |
| 12 | We do claim credit for having detected this anger and for having spent a year in working to set up a public meeting at which Thornaby people could express it , but even there we were careful to be non-party political and as a result of that meeting , with the support of Thornaby people and the town 's MP Tim Devlin , we are now carrying the campaign to the proper quarter . |
| 13 | Proper notice through registry recordings can be accomplished without having to set up a universal or central registry . |
| 14 | The Assembly also approved the leadership purge of June and July , when six high-ranking officials in the ruling Khmer People 's Revolutionary Party ( KPRP ) had been arrested for trying to set up a new party [ see also pp. 37598-99 ] . |