Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [conj] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Karel Van Miert , the Transport Commissioner , is asking member governments to approve a plan which would leave passenger services largely in the hands of state-owned monopolies but open up freight services to competition by permitting private operators to pay for the use of publicly-owned tracks . |
| 2 | In the rectory kitchen Lavinia and Mrs Blackham and Mrs Goff buttered buns and cut up sponge cake and ginger cake and fruitcake , and arranged oatmeal fingers on plates . |
| 3 | Admirably converted from one of the centuries old farmsteads that make up San Leonino , the Hotel Belvedere combines original ambience with modern comforts . |
| 4 | First , it provides a means of unifying the collection of heterogeneous tasks that make up housework ; dissimilar tasks are knitted together , and some kind of coherent job structure emerges . |
| 5 | Another message that comes over clearly is the need to separate out the different tasks that make up housework . |
| 6 | The company plans to stage Edward II , music and performance arts and contemporary films and set up bars and food pavilions on the riverside walk |
| 7 | Some earlier writers have considered that the characteristic groups that make up populations could be selected as such . |
| 8 | We will give people a new right of access to open country , create new national parks and step up protection for special sites . |
| 9 | The RJWG made youth policy the second pillar of its pedagogical intentions and set up youth departments in every region . |
| 10 | Before any computer system can generate or understand spoken words the complex waveforms that make up speech must be turned into a digital form that the computer can cope with . |
| 11 | This method of cultivation protects the growing plants from late frosts and builds up heat in the soil so that the potatoes are ready to be lifted 2–3 weeks earlier than if they had been grown conventionally . |
| 12 | I remind the House that multiple questions lead to multiple answers and take up time . |
| 13 | Since Marxists have been more concerned to analyse the workings of capitalist societies than to draw up blueprints of collective organization after the state has withered away ( an exercise which in any case Marx regarded as Utopian and unscientific ) , it is not easy to piece together a communist theory of administration , in the sense of a model for society after the stage of socialism , during which the dictatorship of the proletariat systematically removed the material foundation of state repression . |
| 14 | If economic agents are assumed to be rational optimizers when forming expectations , why should they not also be rational optimizers when drawing up contracts ? |
| 15 | ‘ Greasers are almost like hoods ; we steal things and drive old souped-up cars and hold up petrol stations and have a gang fight once in a while . ’ |
| 16 | He gives talks and shows videos to various organisations and sets up stall at open days . |
| 17 | Furthermore , Paterson says , unlike rival offerings , the various modules that make up Momentum will cover all aspects of a customer 's business rather than just certain elements . |
| 18 | It would also be a major knock-back for the scum because , without a doubt , he 's been the difference for them scoring vital goals and setting up others . |
| 19 | We usually start by looking through the Yellow Pages and ringing up companies to ask if they will give donations and prizes . |
| 20 | So as prostitutes are being deterred from Swindon by big fines and clear up campaigns , they 're taking the problem elsewhere ; to the cities like London , where the fines are low and demand for their work is high . |
| 21 | Essex education officers are concerned that it is becoming increasingly difficult to find an alternative school for excluded pupils and to match up exam courses . |
| 22 | British flights to the Caribbean and South America , and across the Pacific , could now use American airports and pick up traffic there . |
| 23 | The following evening , after a slogging nine-hour march over volcanic hills that threw up waves of heat , making me irritable and all of us tired and thirsty , we toiled up yet another rise and suddenly saw Lake Hertale below us . |
| 24 | It is now possible to access the database from all three of the participating institutions and call up information as well as visual images on screen simultaneously . |
| 25 | Mansfeld , a metal products and processing group , has ruthlessly cut its staff in half , to 23,000 , chopped unprofitable businesses and signed up sales partners in the west . |
| 26 | The document affirmed the right of national minorities to use their own language , to have their own educational and religious establishments and to set up associations . |
| 27 | So-called ‘ gun ’ microphones are well-known tools for bugging distant conversations or picking up sound from a point source in a crowded room or studio . |
| 28 | Nothing would stop them , nothing would prise them apart , and she was glad to have them there : she liked to think that she and Charles had a comprehensive acquaintance , that in one house they could assemble representatives of most of the intersecting circles that make up society . |