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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Governments which have acted in the name of free enterprise would be most unlikely to put up the necessary funds themselves . |
| 6 | June 1941 , German forces launched their surprise attack and were able to break up the Russian formations and take a huge number of prisoners . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The theological colleges were eager to take up the new opportunities and transfer the teaching of arts subjects to the new colleges and universities . |