Example sentences of "[noun pl] could [verb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Congress and state regulators could speed up the construction of pipelines . |
| 2 | A mind could not be read any more reliably than keys could give up the name of a killer . |
| 3 | In each country , politics complicated development , but German interests finally obtained an east-west canal to link Berlin with the Ruhr and by 1905 ships of 2,000 tons could go up the Rhine as far as Mannheim , a very important change since the Ruhr by then needed more than German ore . |
| 4 | For instance , before a visit to a castle , pupils could draw up a list of features often found in castles and investigate how many of the features their chosen castle possessed . |
| 5 | The twins had been thrilled with the computer , of course — how was it that even small children could pick up the mechanics of these complicated machines in five seconds flat ? |
| 6 | It was such a simple thing , to go against the consensus reality , but so few human beings could work up the willpower . |
| 7 | Before 1950 there was no regional TV station or transmitter : only Parisians could pick up a TV signal ; in 1958 only 50 per cent of the population could tune in to the one black-and-white TV channel . |
| 8 | Surely one of the press lords could rustle up a limousine for her use ? |
| 9 | Although his instincts could pick up no sense of immediate threat in these rooms , he still felt far from at ease . |