Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] up [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , doubt arose over whether Kazakhstan was prepared to give up the nuclear weapons on its territory , as it had earlier stated and as Yeltsin was assuring it would . |
| 2 | The conclusion must be that neither side of industry was prepared to give up the old ways of doing things to achieve full employment . |
| 3 | Conservative privatisation was supposed to break up the big monopolies and make them more competitive and accountable to the public empty propaganda indeed . |
| 4 | Surely it could not take this long to gather up a few baskets of food ? |
| 5 | It was good fortune for BR to be able to pick up the 1938 survivors — only retained into the 1980s to bail out the Northern Line from a vast increase in traffic . |
| 6 | From these results , it would appear that the younger children were not able to pick up the linguistic cues to the deductive/empirical distinction contained in the experimenter 's questions . |
| 7 | Governments which have acted in the name of free enterprise would be most unlikely to put up the necessary funds themselves . |
| 8 | June 1941 , German forces launched their surprise attack and were able to break up the Russian formations and take a huge number of prisoners . |
| 9 | Mr Fallon was told some forces in previous years have not been able to take up the extra posts , which have then been redistributed to other places . |
| 10 | American bilateral agreements that permitted fifth freedom rights especially alarmed the British , as they believed that the United States would be able to scoop up the best routes in a piecemeal fashion . |
| 11 | No it 's not fact that normal go up the private estates , this is probably your first time on a council estate , the bloody hell it 's come from . |
| 12 | It is therefore necessary to pick up the optical signals , convert them into electrical signals , amplify them using a repeater and re-convert them into optical signals every so often along the way . |
| 13 | To invoke these programs , it is necessary to set up the DCL verbs as follows : |
| 14 | To invoke these programs , it is necessary to set up the DCL verbs as described in Appendix F. |
| 15 | With a line of retreat set up , Carson went back down the stairs and got ready to stir up a few wasps . |
| 16 | The theological colleges were eager to take up the new opportunities and transfer the teaching of arts subjects to the new colleges and universities . |