Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [prep] a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wallace had come up with a great zoological truth . |
| 2 | A firm has come up with a new high-tech way to beat credit card fraud . |
| 3 | Merkel had come up with a sinister final solution to the population explosion . |
| 4 | BIOTECHNOLOGISTS have come up with a surprising new way of repairing many scars and wrinkles — using purified cow-hide . |
| 5 | Following new yarn developments in France , Charnos have come up with a beautiful lustrous leg look that is built for comfort — ‘ Sheer Lustre ’ tights at £2.99 with 10 denier appearance leg . |
| 6 | Recognising that a lot of women are taking to the hills , and that they may feel a little intimidated by such a male-orientated sport , especially since they all dress in the same fluffy things as us now , I have come up with a startling new innovation . |
| 7 | With the genre scenes , part of the secret lies again in the way natural-sounding dialogue is skilfully caught up into a formal musical structure . |
| 8 | Cut-price chains Presto and Lo-Cost , caught up in a bloody head-to-head battle with discounters like Kwik Save , managed only a small profits increase . |
| 9 | She seemed to be caught up in a permanent giddying whirl , of trying to run the nightclub , making herself available to the police whenever they needed her , and coping with the demands of a sensation-hungry Press which had swooped on to the drugs-bust story with its famous heroine like a pack of vultures . |
| 10 | She 'd grown up into a beautiful fair girl , and every lad in the county had his eye on her , as Billy knew from all the women 's gossip . |
| 11 | These can be grown up as a pure bacterial growth in a veterinary laboratory . |
| 12 | Novice anthropologists are not all birds of a feather but most readers of this book are likely to have grown up in a modern industrialized society of the sort which presupposes a particular type of major distinction between private affairs and public affairs . |
| 13 | But if you were Jewish , and had grown up in a strict kosher home it might be difficult to accept , even if you now had a broader view through your conversion to Christ . |
| 14 | From the small paved area near the house a path leads down one side of the garden , giving access to the rotary drier and flanking the small lawn that is built up from a strong flowing curve , this helping to lead the eye away from those rectangular boundaries . |
| 15 | I was watching Stalag 17 with my grandmother and being felt up by a dirty old man . |
| 16 | The pig would be hung up on a big strong hook and there was much to-ing and fro-ing with kettles of boiling water to help scrape off the bristles and extract the entrails . |
| 17 | Instead they will be made up of a small professional core supplemented by part-timers plus a number of small firms to which they will contract out work . |
| 18 | Those with a knowledge of simple trigonometry will recognise that oscillation in any other direction perpendicular to z , say in the direction x , could be made up from a component proportional to cos u in the direction x and a component proportional to sin u in the direction y . |
| 19 | Having approved the new constitution , which had been drawn up by a nine-member Constitutional Recommendation Committee , the King turned the document over to the Council of Ministers , which had been invested with legislative powers in mid-May [ see p. 37453 ] . |
| 20 | Five days of negotiations at Estoril , Portugal , ended on Nov. 20 with the Angolan government and United States-backed UNITA guerrillas having agreed on 80 per cent of a ceasefire document drawn up by a Portuguese mediating team , according to the Portuguese Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Co-operation , José Manuel Durao Barroso . |
| 21 | Whoever she was living with , roused by the smell of burning , had come downstairs to discover her slumped across the hearth with her head pressed up against a glowing electric fire . |
| 22 | But remember that they 're tucked up in a nice warm greenhouse and it can be pretty chilly outside . |
| 23 | If we understand the cold war as imaginary war , a situation in which the Fordist variant of capitalism needed the stalinist variant of socialism , in which the two systems were propped up by a never-ending pretend confrontation , then the collapse of communism was bound to lead to a dramatic reaction in the West . |
| 24 | It was so different from other Christmases I had known that it ought to have remained like a beacon in my mind , but I know that my strongest memory of Christmas will always be bound up with a certain little cat . |
| 25 | Her slender body was untidily bundled up in a big leathery jacket and she was wearing long , shiny red boots . |
| 26 | It was clear that the free-enterprise ( indeed , Thatcherite ) peoples of Hong Kong were likely to be swallowed up in a huge Marxist empire of uncertain direction . |
| 27 | We passed giant slabs of ice which had buckled up into a cracked swelling over a rock and saw ice discs spinning on the surface of the water like root-less lily pads . |
| 28 | The letters are pinned up in a big main post office and generous people send the presents . |
| 29 | The Action Teams have been deliberately set up with a wide brief so that they can adapt to local needs without having to conform to a rigid pattern . |
| 30 | Perhaps their attitude can be summed up in a nice little phrase from one of Dally 's patients : ‘ The pleasures of eating are fleeting , but the pleasures of fasting are lasting . ’ |