Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] up the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Made a vain attempt to tidy up the room , which was already looking like a heavy-metal combat zone , and took himself off for a shower . |
| 2 | All this was particularly noticeable in the summer of 1992 when billions of pounds ( some say as much as £20 billion ) of foreign reserves ( £7.2 billion of which had been especially borrowed for the purpose ) were spent by the Bank of England in a vain attempt to prop up the exchange value of sterling . |
| 3 | MR SMITH savaged the Tories for wasting £1 billion in their failed bid to prop up the pound on Black Wednesday . |
| 4 | Main picture : The uncluttered bedroom sums up the atmosphere of the house |
| 5 | The snakes and the tardy remedy make up the entirety of God 's response . |
| 6 | Mr Lamont 's squandering of £1 billion in his vain bid to prop up the pound has not helped . |
| 7 | The establishment of English Heritage opened up the possibility of a second refuge for endangered houses , capable — at least in theory — of taking houses on without the massive endowments required by the National Trust . |
| 8 | This theoretical framework opens up the possibility of analysing the process of technical change in a dynamic disequilibrium context and of integrating work in economics , management and technology . |
| 9 | Indeed , the other EC countries put little pressure on the British delegation to speed up the ERM process , concluding that the time for concessions to Mrs Thatcher 's doubts was now over . |
| 10 | Indeed , the other EC countries put little pressure on the British delegation to speed up the ERM process , concluding that the time for concessions to Mrs Thatcher 's doubts was now over . |
| 11 | The old lady picked up the glass and pulled a face . |
| 12 | The Minister 's attitude reveals a clear determination to break up the system of comprehensive education in this country and replace it with something different . |
| 13 | And usually a loaf of fresh bread to make up the weight . |
| 14 | Their apparatus was primitive and they could not control the reaction , so it was another two years before a different team took up the work again . |
| 15 | The timeout is to prevent a non-completable request blocking up the QA system ( which is a serial system ) . |
| 16 | When will the right hon. Gentleman summon up the courage to make a decision on the applications ? |
| 17 | Throughout the first three decades of our post-imperial era , equipment-cost inflation has outstripped monetary inflation , and there has been insufficient growth in the British economy to make up the difference . |
| 18 | On the other side of the road , a sign nailed to a wooden stump pointed up the escarpment and read , ‘ In Salah ’ . |
| 19 | The British cabinet took up the subject again in Washington in September 1951 . |
| 20 | The old man looked up the staircase in front of them . |
| 21 | Nor , more modestly , does it provide any reason why the Treasury , responsible for the ultimate public obligation to pick up the bill for public bodies which can not be allowed to default , should exercise a prudential interest in its performance . |
| 22 | One back-bench MP summed up the mood of the Scottish parliamentary party , saying : ‘ If he does n't make the grade by the end of the year then there 's no way I 'd vote for him again . |
| 23 | He had taken up a woman 's role , and in the most feminine way taken up the nursing of Sien when his own mental and physical health were at a low ebb . |
| 24 | ( b ) he persistently withdraws or withholds services reasonably required for the occupation of the premises in question as a residence , and ( in either case ) he knows , or has reasonable cause to believe , that the conduct is likely to cause the residential occupier to give up the occupation of the whole or part of the premises or to refrain from exercising any right or pursuing any remedy in respect of the whole or part of the premises . |
| 25 | An increasing imbalance between accumulation and supplies of additional labour requires the faster scrapping of old plant to speed up the transfer of workers to new means of production . |
| 26 | It went down well , with dry bread to mop up the water . |
| 27 | Once you have gained the groove line the climb unfolds in a quite compelling way : superb bridging , solid locking finger jams and perfect protection lead up the plum vertical line . |
| 28 | Unleaded petrol is now widely available and it makes sense environmentally and financially to take this easy opportunity to clean up the atmosphere , and make our cities safer places for our children . |
| 29 | Restructuring of the Atomic Energy Authority would have to be done , but there was concern whether it would be able to find enough non-nuclear work to take up the slack . |
| 30 | He looked backwards expecting to see the rear gunner running up the fuselage to report that his gun had jammed . |