Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] up a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( It is possible to set up a system to gradually add your tank water while discarding the shop water but this should not be necessary ) . |
| 2 | It is very easy to pick up a meaning from a metaphor which was perhaps not the one intended . |
| 3 | There is no simple formula by which this may be achieved , and its very nature makes it impossible to draw up a catalogue of final behaviours to be acquired . |
| 4 | There was no clear theory of jurisdiction and it was impossible to draw up a set of rules which could be used to predict when the courts would intervene . |
| 5 | It is easy to draw up a light-curve for a variable star . |
| 6 | It is easy to draw up a list of opposed attitudes and values , based on this antithesis , such as the following : |
| 7 | No state has found it easy to give up an empire with dignity , but Mr Gorbachev is doing it now with extraordinary openness . |
| 8 | In the UK , with only around 100 TBs on the register , the phrase ‘ that fast French aeroplane ’ is much more likely to conjure up a picture of the faithful Robin DR400 , a lovely aircraft but one which is in an altogether different class . |
| 9 | The Sports Council was quick to pick up an interest in this group in the early 1980s when they included people up to the age of 59 in their target groups to encourage increased participation in sporting activities . |
| 10 | Especially at a time of recession and high unemployment , it is hard to give up a source of income and jobs . |
| 11 | In all cases , they had purchased an ill-afforded shoeshine for the occasion and begged someone — the mothers of the infants , Davide supposed to spruce up a suit of clothes , by dangling a magnificent future before them , and then wrapped their proof in a newly-washed blanket . |
| 12 | How could she tell him that Peter 's ‘ intervention ’ had only been supposed to take up a week of her time ? |
| 13 | A hopeful and insufficiently applauded shift in emphasis was signalled in 1986 by the Report of the Attorney General 's Commission on Pornography , which sought to identify the relative harms caused by various forms of pornography , thus making it possible to draw up a list of priorities . |
| 14 | In sum , it should be possible to draw up a list of factors relevant to a decision whether to embark on re-investigation . |
| 15 | It is now possible to draw up a set of guidelines ( Table 5 ) . |
| 16 | I seriously doubt if it would be possible to put up a climb like this without bolts , particularly as the rock is not beyond suspicion . |
| 17 | VIRGIN is teaming up with Blockbuster International to set up a chain of international mega-stores . |
| 18 | It is possible to build up a design through various tones by repeated immersions in the acid and stopping-out with varnish . |
| 19 | However , using this facility , it is possible to build up a library of machine code utilities for use by a number of programs . |
| 20 | If this is the same person as the author of the Gospel then it is possible to build up a picture of him . |
| 21 | It is valuable to collect information from the family network , and from involved professionals , as by weighing up and balancing different contributions it is possible to build up a picture of recent events to complete an assessment . |
| 22 | Thus by fixing a suitable exposure , at which some cells contain logic 1 and the others logic 0 , it is possible to build up an image of the view area . |
| 23 | I understand that this scheme will be able to light up a town of about 30,000 people , just as my hon. Friend can today , almost single-handedly , light up her constituency . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , on the first night of the war he was able to round up a ring of twenty-one German spies in an effectively timed and executed coup which probably deprived the Germans of any information on Britain 's initial military dispositions . |
| 25 | Well I hope you 've been able to pick up a bit of something but I 'm not very good at it myself cos old days and old times . |
| 26 | Should you be successful , you will be able to pick up a bounty on each of them . ’ |
| 27 | All the players gave this exhibition free of charge and , with the resulting revenue , the trust was able to set up a fund with which to promote junior golf on Jersey . |
| 28 | Born in 1841 , Robert 's origins were bona fide proletarian ; he worked in a glass factory and as a house painter , taking evening classes in art which proved such a successful venture that he was able to set up a studio by 1869 and had developed a substantial reputation by the 1880s . |
| 29 | As a result of their conversations they were able to draw up a list of MPs favourable to abolition . |
| 30 | He may have been reluctant to give up a conquest of his illustrious forbear , Julius Caesar . |