Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun pl] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , there was the 1960 agreement , to which both Iran and Iraq were parties , whereby several major oil-producing states set up OPEC . |
| 2 | The scene , without the players , is the same today as you enter the low walled garden with its four pleasing square summer-houses at the corners and its grand sweeping steps leading up Swangrove is its exotic and inimitable rendering of the local Cotswold style . |
| 3 | As we have noted , Circular 11/77 asked Regional Advisory Councils to draw up plans for the training of full-time further education teachers and to report progress to the DES by September 1978 . |
| 4 | Reports in early September said that the government had also urged southern tribal leaders to take up arms against Shia dissidents . |
| 5 | In this last respect , though in no other , we were probably luckier than the other people , many of whom became ( and remain ) colleagues and friends , and for whom comparable educational problems opened up career opportunities very similar to ours . |
| 6 | large-scale fiscal measures to speed up slum clearance and housing schemes , to improve local amenities , to boost family incomes by generous family allowances , to improve the job market in the inner city , and to implement the proposed extension of nursery provision . |
| 7 | Brett and Masala flanked the back door and the other three bodyguards took up positions on the other side of the car , facing the photographers . |
| 8 | Young married couples setting up home have the daunting task of choosing all the major electrical equipment at once . |
| 9 | It will be the first international tribunal of its kind since the main allied powers set up courts at Nuremberg and Tokyo after the Second World War to try leading Axis war criminals . |