Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether specific plans to follow up the lesson have been made . |
| 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 | Once an integrated representation of the clause as a unit is created , the specific words making up the clause can be discarded from memory to make way for the words of the next clause . |
| 7 | The cost was indeed so great that there were not even enough rich and unsuitable candidates to buy up the nominations . |
| 8 | The snakes and the tardy remedy make up the entirety of God 's response . |
| 9 | Mr Lamont 's squandering of £1 billion in his vain bid to prop up the pound has not helped . |
| 10 | Er and seek good qualified er Consultants to carry out the work which could be deliberated on by the various Committees of the County Council and the District and that work has been done and I think if I saw anything Chairman from the meeting on the twenty second of December at St Albans , it was that form very first time three political parties took up the policy and they started to address particular issues er er er we believe less measures partaken . |
| 11 | Success came when he defeated the SDP in 1987 by a slim majority to take up the Stockton South seat . |
| 12 | All this formed a background to the first century of crusading ; and it goes some way to explaining the more secular aspects of the magnetism which drew French knights to take up the cross in their thousands . |
| 13 | The different definitions open up the possibility of divergent interpretations . |
| 14 | It took some time to reassemble their people , so much so that presently Douglas , growing impatient , left some of his lesser commanders to round up the stragglers , attend to the wounded and collect the booty from the camp . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Such an approach 's insistence on dealing with non-traditional , non-objective methods points up the ambiguities which characterize psychological methods , in a persistent and useful way . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It would require suicidal altruism to take up the cudgels for the Palestinians . |
| 21 | Sarah Brightman 's Rose was a bloodless creature — she has to make us believe in the devil-may-care spirit of theatrical folk to show up the stuffiness of the aristocrats . |
| 22 | The old lady picked up the glass and pulled a face . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | And usually a loaf of fresh bread to make up the weight . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The Old Stager summed up the problem for the benefit of the nine team members within earshot . |
| 27 | French retailers hike up the prices of their mature stocks with even more frequency and gusto than their British counterparts , and this can make ready-to-drink claret and burgundy très cher indeed . |
| 28 | The timeout is to prevent a non-completable request blocking up the QA system ( which is a serial system ) . |
| 29 | When will the right hon. Gentleman summon up the courage to make a decision on the applications ? |
| 30 | 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 . |