Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The outburst follows the allied decision to set up an exclusion zone to protect Shi'ites in Southern Iraq . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | MR SMITH savaged the Tories for wasting £1 billion in their failed bid to prop up the pound on Black Wednesday . |
| 5 | Main picture : The uncluttered bedroom sums up the atmosphere of the house |
| 6 | The snakes and the tardy remedy make up the entirety of God 's response . |
| 7 | Mr Lamont 's squandering of £1 billion in his vain bid to prop up the pound has not helped . |
| 8 | The position of the Socialist Unity Party — Party of Democratic Socialism ( SED-PDS — since December the new name of the communist Socialist Unity Party or SED — see pp. 37107-09 ) had been badly damaged over its controversial attempt to set up a successor organization to the hated State Security police or " Stasi " . |
| 9 | The Foreign Ministry set up a study group on a peace treaty in November 1945 , although it was clearly premature to pursue the problem at this time . |
| 10 | After the Allied landings took place , that same month , Franco 's controlled press continued to assure readers that the Axis still had the upper hand , and the Spanish Foreign Ministry drew up a plan entitled " Bases for Political Negotiations with Germany " . |
| 11 | For all three authors the ultimate source of royal authority is not God , or tradition , but the people , whether through some original popular decision to set up a monarchy , or through a constantly renewed popular choice of rulers . |
| 12 | Some of Tuscany 's best wines , now made entirely from Sangiovese , would never have reached the drawing board had not an imported French variety got up a lot of Italian noses . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Its use of public money to set up a network of city technology colleges in joint ventures with businesses mocked the needs of the majority of children . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The old lady picked up the glass and pulled a face . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | And usually a loaf of fresh bread to make up the weight . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Anyway , this old miser drew up an indenture and the monies were made available . |
| 23 | You can help the old grandma to keep up a supply of hot water . ’ |
| 24 | The English title picks up a thread running through the film in which the characters quote from the lyrics of the song , linking it with their own lives ; the French title is Daddy Nostalgie . |
| 25 | The timeout is to prevent a non-completable request blocking up the QA system ( which is a serial system ) . |
| 26 | When will the right hon. Gentleman summon up the courage to make a decision on the applications ? |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | On the other side of the road , a sign nailed to a wooden stump pointed up the escarpment and read , ‘ In Salah ’ . |
| 29 | The British cabinet took up the subject again in Washington in September 1951 . |
| 30 | The old man looked up the staircase in front of them . |