Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [verb] up [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wednesday were shattered at giving up a three-goal lead at home but their plan to expose right-back Paul Parker 's size by getting Hirst to attack him in the air paid off with two goals — plus one for the striker himself . |
| 2 | One city has responded by setting up a twenty-four hour response team to help people whose lives are being ruined by noisy neighbours . |
| 3 | The Government had responded by setting up an interdepartmental committee under the chairmanship of Lord Justice James to review the distribution of criminal business between the Crown Court and the Magistrates ' courts . |
| 4 | This was solved by setting up the first stall run by the eldest most respected woman in the village . |
| 5 | The UN Security Council imposed an air and arms embargo on Libya last year in an effort to force the surrender of two men suspected of blowing up the American airliner over Lockerbie in 1988 . |
| 6 | Some leading MEPs believe an alliance with reform-minded MPs must be struck if leaders like Mrs Thatcher are to be prevented from setting up an economic and monetary union , which is essentially uncontrolled by any democratically-elected body . |
| 7 | In news programmes , quality and range were sought by setting up a distinct company , ITN , which was jointly owned by the other companies and supplied news for the whole channel , and later for Channel 4 . |
| 8 | The Cubans have thrown the US off balance by , in the wake of the Libya-Lockerbie crisis , demanding extradition to Cuba of two men accused of blowing up a Cuban airliner over Barbados in 1976 . |
| 9 | Mendoza had been accused of covering up the 1985 kidnapping and murder , allegedly by a police intelligence unit , of three members of the Chilean Communist party [ for April 1992 arrest of Mendoza see pp. 38860-61 ] . |
| 10 | Some of the top soil is so acidic that no tree can survive and the Government has resorted to digging up the affected soil and replacing it with fresh stocks . |
| 11 | Agreement was reached on setting up a joint commission of experts to deal with minority questions and on working towards guaranteeing minority rights . |
| 12 | Their hideaway — 45ft above the ground in the branches of a 100-year-old ash tree — can only be reached by clambering up a 28-step ladder . |
| 13 | Both InsP 3 and DAG have been implicated in setting up the dorso-ventral axis in Xenopus embryos . |
| 14 | Nowadays we are so scattered about the country that it is very unlikely that any of us would have a Stainey just around the corner who could be relied upon to put up a first class polish . |
| 15 | In marital therapy it is often noticeable that although a couple are asking for help to sort out their problem , so that they may have the closeness and intimacy for which they yearn , fear overcomes hope , and whenever things start to improve one of them can be relied upon to start up the next quarrel . |
| 16 | The work undertaken is concentrated on building up a unique collection and source of information on the economy of Norwich and the surrounding area , with particular reference to the changing structure of employment , which will continue to accumulate and grow , after this project is completed , with minimal input . |
| 17 | In the course of doing so money will have to be spent on cleaning up the Six ( and , no doubt , eventually , the Soviet Union , too ) to ensure that they make respectable cohabitants of the new Europe which various leaders from Gorbachev to Delors to François Mitterrand have envisaged . |
| 18 | Finally , RACs should be asked to consider what the paper inelegantly described as ‘ resource availability and future coordination in respect of training for education management ’ , and consideration should be given to setting up a national advisory and consultative group . |
| 19 | The assembly , charged with drawing up a new constitution , could pave the way for political pluralism . |
| 20 | The National Assembly 's constitutional commission , charged with drawing up a full new ( large ) constitution , began work on Nov. 17 . |
| 21 | Alphonse Blaguet , a mediator appointed by President André Kolingba , was charged with setting up a preparatory committee , consulting with political parties and drawing up the agenda . |
| 22 | Pierre Encreve , a professor of linguistics , has been charged with setting up the new foundation , which will serve to fulfill Andre Chastel 's 1983 commitment to found an institute for the history of art and culture , on the lines of London 's Courtauld Institute . |
| 23 | They were closely followed by setting up the national machinery to promote and manage it . |
| 24 | Some employees believe that the trauma of uprooting their families and homes outweighs any benefits that may be gained by taking up a new position ( possibly a promotion ) somewhere else in the country . |
| 25 | The acknowledged annual implementation costs referred to earlier were running at almost double the £220m estimated for setting up the internal market . |
| 26 | This area is seen as only one of a number of possible future points of development , for plans are being discussed for setting up a linked structure of subject panels from national down to district and location level to give all teachers the opportunity to comment on materials and raise suggestions for new approaches . |
| 27 | The principal effort to date has been directed to setting up the operational structure , preparing marketing material , and general business development , including joint ventures with partners in industry . |
| 28 | An accord was signed on setting up a joint economic co-operation commission , and another agreement was initialled on investment promotion and protection . |
| 29 | Because i it is assumed management is learned by picking up the bad habits of your predecessor and their predecessors for the last five hundred years . |
| 30 | Too often we are faced with clamouring up the slippery slopes to the law more than sliding down them . |