Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] up [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a lovely sight to see all the sleeping hens on their perch and exciting to open up the door in the morning to find they had laid eggs for our breakfast in the three nest boxes on the floor . |
| 2 | GORDON TAYLOR , the players ' union secretary , yesterday confirmed that he is still prepared to take up the post of chief executive of the Football League -despite a cold-shoulder from the League 's management committee and the reluctance of the Professional Footballers ' Association to release him . |
| 3 | He had wanted Lesley to have an abortion , but because he feels committed to Lesley he is prepared to bring up the baby as if she were his own . |
| 4 | Yet schools are prepared to tie up the time of senior staff , in effect the resource equivalent of at least a full-time head of department post , with the vaguest responsibilities for taking difficult pupils away from classrooms . |
| 5 | It was argued that it would be undesirable to open up the possibility of private prosecution , and that the sensitivity of the area was such that it was imperative that prosecution policy be consistent . |
| 6 | ( 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 ) . |
| 7 | Unfortunately it is too far south to be properly seen from Britain or the northern United States , but when high up it is truly impressive , and it is easy to conjure up the picture of a scorpion from the long line of bright stars , with the ‘ head ’ and the ‘ sting ’ . |
| 8 | Since documents prepared with either indented or hanging paragraphs tend to be consistently of the one style , it is as easy to set up the format before typing as it is to do it afterwards . |
| 9 | It is very easy to pick up a meaning from a metaphor which was perhaps not the one intended . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It is easy to draw up a light-curve for a variable star . |
| 13 | It is easy to draw up a list of opposed attitudes and values , based on this antithesis , such as the following : |
| 14 | No state has found it easy to give up an empire with dignity , but Mr Gorbachev is doing it now with extraordinary openness . |
| 15 | It will not be easy to speed up the system by which mentally disordered people are moved through the courts , prisons , NHS hospitals , Special Hospitals and , eventually , back into the normal community . |
| 16 | The Ballinascreen man , now 28 , is among those who are only too delighted to lap up the build-up to tomorrow week 's All Ireland final . |
| 17 | At the least it is likely to drive up the cost of borrowing . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Many of those present had found it hard to pick up the thread of what he was saying and instead had thought with a shiver : " Needles driven into your belly ! |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Especially at a time of recession and high unemployment , it is hard to give up a source of income and jobs . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | USL 's action looks likely to speed up the pace of this convergence , which may see it become Pinnacle UK before the end of the year , though that depends on how well the two companies work together in the interim , says Unix Solutions ' Quing Tsang . |
| 24 | How could she tell him that Peter 's ‘ intervention ’ had only been supposed to take up a week of her time ? |
| 25 | Normally , New Scientist heralds the beginning of April with a few jeux d'esprit , but this year it was subdued , predicting only that the world would come to an end on 5 April , a prophecy based on meat consumption figures , though it was hard to make up the mind about an item called ‘ What the woodlouse can teach us about marriage ’ . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In sum , it should be possible to draw up a list of factors relevant to a decision whether to embark on re-investigation . |
| 28 | It is now possible to draw up a set of guidelines ( Table 5 ) . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | VIRGIN is teaming up with Blockbuster International to set up a chain of international mega-stores . |