Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] up the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In his press release the Secretary of State says : ’ Many of the new measures are designed to protect children from being influenced to take up the deadly habit of smoking . ’ |
| 32 | While admitting that the US company 's board had discussed winding up the Irish operation a number of times , he emphasized his gratitude and that of the board for the help and co-operation received from the Irish government and the IDA . |
| 33 | And if you were an important enough visitor , you were allowed to come up the privy stair and straight into the great chamber . |
| 34 | Alongside his economic reforms , he has tried to open up the political system and make it harder for politicians to cheat . |
| 35 | They had even been forced to give up the prestigious Company barge , unable to afford the cost of its repair and the wages of the bargemaster . |
| 36 | Sales manager had just finished setting up the portable testing gear when an Al Mutlaq representative wanted to buy it . |
| 37 | Increasingly powerful transmitters , satellite relays , and cable systems have begun to open up the British electorate to a wider variety of broadcast news sources , while business mergers have effectively consolidated control of the press into a very few hands ( Newton , 1988a , p. 314 ; Negrine , 1989 , ch. 4 ) . |
| 38 | At 6.15 a taxi was dispatched to pick up the old dress — any old dress — to cover my confusion and my body . |
| 39 | Benjamin Titford had managed to clamber up the social ladder , as we have seen — rising , in the process , higher than his impoverished cousins in Frome had done . |
| 40 | For this reason the time required to pick up the tagged record may be rather more than R/2 . |
| 41 | On top of this , I then crayoned very gently the colours required to build up the facial structure . |
| 42 | Political persuasion was required to keep up the political momentum , and given the changing age profile of the electorate — many of whom had not been adults a decade ago — Sir Geoffrey warned : ‘ We 've got to choose the style to match the mood of Britain . ’ |
| 43 | Candidates have a 5-year period to accumulate the module certificates required to make up the full group awards of : |