Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [verb] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Things have been quiet … no messages for 24 hours after picking up the 49 that were waiting yesterday . |
| 2 | He was the author of several political histories , President of the Society of Antiquaries , the founder of a prize for a historical essay at Oxford , and shortly before the competition he had persuaded the Government to take the first steps towards setting up the National Portrait Gallery . |
| 3 | Both moves were seen as tentative steps towards opening up the political system . |
| 4 | Bourassa 's attitude coincided with opinion poll evidence which suggested that , while a majority of Quebec 's population currently supported sovereignty for the province , there was growing concern about the potential negative effects of breaking up the Canadian federation . |
| 5 | We have improved matters by cutting up the fallen leaves with a rotary grass-cutting machine which makes it easier for raking and collection for the compost heaps ; the chopped leaves also rot down that much quicker . |
| 6 | Lisa Buckingham writes : Chemical companies have finally secured insurance to help them pay the costs of cleaning up the long term damage they do to the environment . |
| 7 | The lack of progress was attributed partly to a delay of two weeks in setting up the joint working commissions whose task was to implement the Accord under UN auspices . |
| 8 | The experiments of the last 30 years in bringing up the young have failed . |
| 9 | Cheaper alternatives to turning up the central heating are to do a brief bout of gentle exercise , which increases body heat from the inside , or to wrap up well , which reduces loss to the outside . |
| 10 | This procedure is not restricted to one subassembly : a part can be checked against all other adjoining subassemblies by moving up the hierarchical structure one level , an adjacent sub-assembly file and then performing the same vertical search . |
| 11 | Slovenia in Milk Race CYCLING : Yugoslavia , who last competed in the Milk Race 30 years ago , will be represented by the breakaway state of Slovenia , which has joined the Commonwealth of Independent States in taking up the last places in a record field of 18 teams . |
| 12 | They were talking about the House of Representatives at Weimar — ‘ That troublesome place ’ , as the T'ang continually called it — and about ways of shoring up the tenuous peace that now existed between it and the Seven . |
| 13 | Since the acquisition of beautiful paintings and objects became one of the ways to clambering up the slippery social slopes this sort of chatter has become jet-propelled . |
| 14 | Noting that the EC central bank proposed by Delors would not be accountable to elected governments , Major proposed instead to build on to Stage 1 further steps to promote convergence of economic performance , low inflation and stable exchange rates by building up the existing EC currency , the ECU . |
| 15 | It will give your business quicker reflexes by speeding up the whole production process , from planning to delivery . |
| 16 | This is partly because fishing rights erm were written in erm to the , to the European Community system erm as part of in a sense the agricultural policy , erm because they were regarded as part of food policy , and it was thought that you must have , if you 're going to have a common agricultural policy , and that was one of the important points erm of the negotiations for setting up the European Community , then a common fisheries policy went alongside with that . |
| 17 | It is the argument of this book that many of the reasons for this are organizational , and that a very considerable change in attitudes and practice results from taking up the administrative implications of all aspects of resource-based learning ( audio-visual , print-form and other ) and putting them to hand . |
| 18 | In this chapter we will channel our energies into opening up the contradictory facets of our personalities and explore the different voices , different tones of voice , that these contradictions make available to us . |
| 19 | The Founding Fathers in drawing up the American Constitution had , after all , two aims , not one . |
| 20 | Less objective devices are provided by such methods as generalised contours which are attempts to reconstruct the original contours by linking up the furthest points reached by each contour from the area of highest ground . |
| 21 | Well everybody 's conversations for to build up the new Lo , Longman 's dictionary with the new words and things . |
| 22 | The reception had told her the Scottish Football team were residents in the hotel which increased her hopes of picking up the odd tip in order to ease her way through University . |