Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] up a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Bates , a local school governor , is a supporter of the controversial Macmillan City Technology College in Middlesbrough and is fighting his campaign on four main issues : law and order , the Conservative Government 's ability to lead the country out of recession , the Prime Minister 's commitment to the health service and his expectation that Langbaurgh voters will reject the plans of other parties to set up a regional assembly . |
| 2 | Bend down at the knees to pick up a bulky object , thus avoiding back strain . |
| 3 | Among its other demands are : i ) that manufacturers should be obliged to take back and recycle products at the end of their useful life ; ii ) that the EC should take steps to set up a comprehensive system of environmental liability ; and iii ) that environmental impact assessments on construction projects and other EC-funded programmes be strictly enforced both within and outside Europe . |
| 4 | It wants to raise funds to set up a special service for Northern Ireland , and ensure that every child 's call is answered first time . |
| 5 | President Clinton has given his staff two months to draw up a balanced solution to the continuing controversy over the logging of the Pacific North-West old-growth forests — fiercely opposed by conservationists , but strongly defended as economically essential by many local people . |
| 6 | In this chapter some of the ways in which palaeontologists determine the way fossil animals lived are described , reanimating the dead fragments to build up a living creature . |
| 7 | This enables schools to build up a flexible resource which teachers can adapt to the varying needs of classes . |
| 8 | My history books told me about those wicked aristocrats of the nineteenth century , they used their position as landlords to force their tenants to , to vote in a certain way , to force their tenants in other words to take up a particular position on a matter of controversy . |
| 9 | On April 30 Lekhanya announced proposals to set up a national constituent assembly to draw up a new constitution . |
| 10 | But just as the Americans looked to be heading to a heavy and humiliating defeat in their first ever game against Germany , they struck back with two goals in seven minutes to set up a tense finish . |
| 11 | Plans to set up a deep repository for nuclear waste near Sellafield in Cumbria are attracting growing criticism . |
| 12 | MMT operates purely in the UK South East where Haines claims 2% to 3% market share , and has no plans to set up a regional office up North until this market is saturated , although an acquisition is possible . |
| 13 | There are also plans to set up a Lothian-wide Information Service for people thinking about residential or nursing home care . |
| 14 | Based on profits of DM250,000 , ( £89,285 ; $155,375 ) made by the 1991 Fair , there are plans to set up a permanent office to take over the duties which , in the past , Association members have undertaken voluntarily . |
| 15 | It was also the turn of Kenneth Clarke today ; the Health Secretary did n't have quite so much up his sleeve , but he did announce plans to set up a nationwide programme of health targets . |
| 16 | The Malaysian government has announced plans to set up a special task force in Europe to carry out counter-propaganda work against environmentalist criticism of its logging operations in Sarawak and its treatment of the Penan people . |
| 17 | A protocol on banking , which asked the heads of central banks in CIS member states to set up a co-ordinating body , was reinforced by their decision to conduct a co-ordinated finance policy , reported on March 17 . |
| 18 | Over the past two months Mr Steinhardt has juggled positions in banks , drugs and oil-service companies to build up a short portfolio of $640m . |
| 19 | Often we have only fragments of bones to build up a mental picture of the final complete skeleton . |
| 20 | Remoteness is still the keynote of this region , but a Charlton reiving party would be hard put to it these days to work up a good gallop along the upper reaches of the North Tyne River . |
| 21 | The gruesome ability of some individuals to take up a cannibalistic diet is , in evolutionary terms , a sensible solution to the problem of food shortage in a rapidly disappearing pond . |
| 22 | When he heard of his army 's defeat he proclaimed a huge mushroom feast and ordered his shamans to brew up a fresh batch of Mad Cap fungus liquor for the Fanatics . |
| 23 | He then served on committees to set up a republican government and abolish kingship and the House of Lords . |
| 24 | This was confirmed in April 1948. when ‘ it was agreed that Abdallah would control Arab Palestine if he did not interfere with efforts to set up a Jewish State . ’ |
| 25 | With his latest movie , Henry & June , Philip Kaufman slightly varies this mix of spices to serve up a soft-focus hash of Sex and Literature in Paris , 1931 . |
| 26 | She was a war widow and worked round the clock in her efforts to bring up a young family by herself . |
| 27 | Interviews with Spinelli and other ‘ elite opinion leaders will be used together with documentation from EC institutions to build up a developmental profile of key federal ideas and influences in the context of European Union . |
| 28 | Regardless of what the manufacturers of integrated software may tell us it can still be a time consuming process to off-load the document from the wordprocessor and pull in the data base and its files to look up a simple telephone number . |
| 29 | Several standard-bearing veterans of the uprising were forced hastily to switch positions — and the soldier carrying the wreath sprinted 50 yards to take up a new position in front of the prince . |
| 30 | At second level the department offers a series of five half-courses , which students can combine in various ways to make up a full course . |