Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [vb pp] up [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grampian has drawn up six programmes which they hope will qualify for EC aid , ranging from re-training schemes , tourism development in upland areas and harbour towns , and transport and communications improvements . |
| 2 | The reunification of Germany has opened up new opportunities for many in the East , including a group of East German teachers of English who are visiting Oxford this week . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , Menter Bro Ddyfi has set up new computer courses at the school , which commence next week . |
| 4 | In return , Sequoia has given up any ambitions it may have had in the telecommunications marketplace , but will sell the thing in competition with HP elsewhere . |
| 5 | The Gnomes had gone to considerable trouble ; Culdub and Bith had sat up long hours and consulted books and chronicles and there had been much burning of late candles and worried scurryings to and fro between the Gnomes ' houses in the little mountain village . |
| 6 | A report in the Financial Times of Feb. 19 claimed that ULFA had stepped up violent attacks in February and had proved itself very much intact despite a large Army presence in the state . |
| 7 | Despite Graham 's protestations , Arsenal have picked up 23 bookings already this season and a growing injury list has further blighted the Gunners ' bid for a third championship triumph in five seasons . |
| 8 | According to the Nobel Committee which sits in Stockholm , Mr Gorbachov has opened up new possibilities for the World Community to solve its pressing problems . |
| 9 | On the precise matter that he raised regarding Scotland , my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland has set up working parties to advise on the need for early action on the Cairngorms , Loch Lomond and the Trossachs . |
| 10 | Frank had signed up Zero Mostel and Jack Gilford — from the original stage show — and Phil Silvers . |
| 11 | The Soviet Union and South Korea have set up consular offices in each other 's capitals , Seoul 's foreign ministry said yesterday . |
| 12 | Uzbekistan has stepped up anti-poaching measures . |
| 13 | Finch had picked up some Arabic and heard the interpreter translating the image into a metaphysical one about a camel ( whichever is a camel ) lying down with a camel ( whichever is a camel ) . |
| 14 | Ted had given up all hope of enlarging his holding and was concentrating his efforts on farming his existing soil , making a reasonable living from his multiplicity of vegetable crops , when a letter arrived one day explaining to him that if he still wanted to buy the adjoining land , the owners were interested in discussing the matter . |
| 15 | By early July the Wordsworths had taken up temporary residence at Cottle 's house in Wine Street , Bristol , where Dorothy found the noise of the Bristol streets almost intolerable . |
| 16 | In the past seven years Mr Ratner has gobbled up rival retailers , including H. Samuel and Watches of Switzerland ( which must be wincing at the boss 's cheap-and-cheerfulness ) . |
| 17 | Electronic point of sale specialist Verifone UK has teamed up retail systems specialist Saunders Jeffries Ltd to try and get its technology into corner shops . |
| 18 | Data General Ltd in the UK has signed up ICL-owned distributor Technology plc of Warrington , Cheshire as its first ever UK distributor for the AViiON and CLARiiON product lines . |
| 19 | By the time the threatened rain arrived around 4pm , 70 overs had been bowled , 50 of them by spinners , there had been two 100-run partnerships and Boon and Whitaker had picked up stylish half-centuries . |
| 20 | Despite bumpy market conditions , most of those that joined in September and October have notched up solid gains . |
| 21 | Since losing her sight , Philippa Bastable has taken up competitive swimming and has a new career , too |
| 22 | Also at Carn Vellan , Rowland Edwards has put up two routes in a more traditional vein , both un-named . |
| 23 | Throughout the novel Robbins has lined up clear oppositions between separations and holism , technology and the organic , restraint and freedom . |
| 24 | Bill Rodgers having set up this committee , it now fell to me to decide what to do with their report . |
| 25 | In France Jean-Paul Kauffman 's colleagues were paying a percentage of their salaries towards the campaign , and several colleagues at WTN had set up regular standing orders into our bank account . |
| 26 | Reinhard Heydrich had dreamed up this idea , and also the name for the unlucky decoys — Konserven , or , let's say , tinned meat . |
| 27 | FLINTSHIRE team manager Tudor Jones has called up six Northop Hall players in a bold bid to topple old foes Denbighshire in today 's crunch clash in the Welsh Cricket Association 's Ansells Cup at Brymbo . |
| 28 | Davies has snapped up three players from neighbours Holywell Town , goalkeeper David Edwards , centre back Alex Goss and midfielder Darren Horne who had a previous spell with Flint . |
| 29 | Accompanied by TODAY , Detective Sergeant Louis Van der Merwe and Detective Sergeant Riaan Render gathered up gruesome pointers to the two young women 's life-and-death struggle . |
| 30 | Roland had given up all thought , in any case not very realistic , of discussing the purloined letters with Blackadder . |