Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [verb] up a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Association will provide past students with a chance to renew old friendships , make new contacts or build up a strong , useful network within the catering industry . |
| 2 | Mrs Peysner hopes that the money will be used instead to improve day facilities for this group at other homes or to set up a mobile day unit . |
| 3 | Banks can thus cut costs by absorbing their leasing , factoring and other subsidiaries and setting up a unified sales team for many of their products . |
| 4 | An indication of the expectations the Act has aroused among fund managers can be gauged from the fact that , just over a year ago , merchant bankers Kleinwort Benson decided to bring together previously dispersed skills and set up a specialised division , headed by Rupert Marlow , to look after their charities fund management . |
| 5 | The Committee for Education gave special attention to the question of college libraries and set up a working party in 1974 to advise on provision in colleges proposing to diversify their courses , and over the next three years it offered guidance on ways of assessing the quality of provision , emphasized the importance of the standing of the head of the library service or resource centre , of consultation with the library in course development , and of initiating students into making effective use of the library and learning resources . |
| 6 | Starting with a bank loan of £4,000 , Roddick had no time to sit down in the early years and draw up a grandiose mission of what her organisation should set out to achieve . |
| 7 | Collaborative research and cross-licensing of patents : for sound reasons — high fixed costs , economies of scale , and risk-sharing — firms may pool research and development ( R&D ) resources and set up a common R&D agency . |
| 8 | To write the words ‘ the family in industrial society ’ is to make a lot of assumptions and to open up a complex range of questions . |
| 9 | And I daresay she thinks she 's succeeded — done me out of my rights and fixed up a snug home for herself for the rest of her days ! |
| 10 | Floorboards tend to be fitted in long lengths and taking up a whole length is an unnecessary bore . |
| 11 | It must be made perfectly plain that if a man in this position chooses to deceive the court and his legal advisers and put up a false story which had the result of reducing his sentence of imprisonment , the Court would not intervene . |
| 12 | They have spent ten years perfecting their own blend of rhythm and blues and building up a solid base in the region . |
| 13 | But FT-SE shook off the blues and notched up a 29.5-point leap to 2687.8 . |
| 14 | A couple got off the train , were met by the police and put up a ferocious but unsuccessful fight : suspicion of a bank robbery the previous day , apparently , back down the line in Thunder Bay . |
| 15 | Orders had pushed up men on top of men and set up a living wall against the monstrous German avalanche . ’ |
| 16 | They entered the cool , dark tower , across stone-vaulted floors and climbed up a narrow twisting staircase into the hall . |