Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] up [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attempts to set up a national printers " union in Scotland date from 1836 , but both the General Typographical Association of Scotland and its successor , the Northern District Board of the National Typographical Association , came to grief after only a few years . |
| 2 | The home secretary announced plans to set up a special police unit to investigate suspects . |
| 3 | Not only did the fragrances of the essences cover up the putrid smells of gangrenous wounds , they also suppressed them by retarding putrefaction . |
| 4 | This is , however , a revealing case study in that disagreements show up the different modes of explanation clearly . |
| 5 | Their very presence , however , unsettled the enemy and forced their commanders to detach valuable troops to round up the raiding parties . |
| 6 | The problem is that foreign scouts snap up the talented ones to work abroad . |
| 7 | At one point , the official , irrelevant , birthday fireworks lit up the marching protesters , to the accompaniment of deafening explosions . |
| 8 | Short response items made up the initial sections of these tests . |
| 9 | You can now start venturing away from your measured route and start looking for additional ways to clock up the extra miles — try walking to the shops instead of driving ; try parking the car further away from work and walking the rest of the way ; or getting off the bus or train one or two stops from your destination and walking the rest of the way . |
| 10 | The general appearance of the area is a drab one : there are few green spaces and few trees break up the uniform lines of terraced and semi-detached housing . |
| 11 | We we we 're empowered er by these orders to set up the new constituencies , er they do not actually come into effect to enable the elections to be held upon them er until all the countries of the E E C have agreed the changes that are necessary to accommodate the new numbers that er they will be having , er so the act , the ninety three act , has a commencement hour within it . |
| 12 | In many ways these two opinions sum up the different preconceptions , experiences , attitudes and priorities of the two sides . |
| 13 | Already he 's spent more than £100 on chicken wire and spent hours collecting up the various fillings . |
| 14 | British Gas has been swiftly building up its interests in the new developments to build up a new earnings stream and gain access to supplies . |
| 15 | The young mothers take up the local authorities ' slack stock . |
| 16 | Seen from a distance at night , the dimly lit vehicles resembled ‘ the folds of some gigantic and luminous serpent which never stopped and never ended ’ On either side of the road their headlamps lit up the bowed backs of the endless columns of marching men . |
| 17 | There are many occurrences of volcanic activity in areas remote from plate margins ; the volcanoes of the East African Rift system , such as Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya , the volcanic and associated hydrothermal activity of the Yellowstone region in Wyoming , U S A ( Fig. 4.3 ) , and the chain of volcanic peaks making up the Hawaiian Islands are examples from both continental and oceanic regions . |
| 18 | The trust contemplates many benefits for patients , including continuing the systematic assessments and the reductions in institutional accommodation , and has plans to break up the large wards and to increase the staff-patient ratio . |
| 19 | Comprising three tiers of small chambers rising up the steep slopes of the Quirinal Hill , the markets were completed by Emperor Trajan in 112 AD and formed the commercial centre of ancient Rome . |
| 20 | The English archers broke up the Scottish positions and the Earl of Dunbar and Robert the Steward fled with their troops . |
| 21 | Men gave up the very linings of their greatcoats to provide the little creatures with fur . |
| 22 | One of the two batallions making up the Scots Guards is disbanded next month . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , the Magistrate had ordered the native pensioners to collect up the vernacular records and documents which lay in shallow drifts in the new trenches … all that now remained of the experimental greenhouse in which he had observed the progress and ubiquity of the Company 's stupidity . |
| 24 | Wolsey 's clerks drew up the necessary letters of accreditation , warrants and bills for the exchequer . |
| 25 | Once again , although men are capable of this too , the ability is less marked , and many will rely on their women to pick up the intangible clues , or to decode their own shadowy impressions for them . |
| 26 | The journey is scenically attractive , and Trogen is a neat village where white-fronted , red-roofed villas spread up the green slopes of the Gibris . |
| 27 | Taken together with the measurement of the gravitational spectral shift these measurements make up the classical tests of GR . |
| 28 | However , as the busloads of pilgrims trudged up the muddy paths to the whispered prayers ( ’ Our Lady of Ballinspittle sway for us ’ ) of the local inn keepers , the Bishop of Cork gave a lukewarm endorsement to the extent that it WIS no bad thing to see people praying . |
| 29 | As it was , with two glasses of champagne inside her , and as the mannequins displayed the latest fashions from Paris and London , she felt she was once more in heaven , even more so two hours or so later as Mr O'Hara 's chief assistants wrapped up the final choices : dresses , gowns and lingerie made of georgette , and flowered taffetas , moires , silks and satins , subtle lamés , artificial marocain and crêpe de Chine , in colours of white or pastel blue , cerise , pearl-grey , oyster and of course rose-opaline . |