Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [verb] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was solved by setting up the first stall run by the eldest most respected woman in the village . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ] . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Both InsP 3 and DAG have been implicated in setting up the dorso-ventral axis in Xenopus embryos . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They were closely followed by setting up the national machinery to promote and manage it . |
| 10 | The acknowledged annual implementation costs referred to earlier were running at almost double the £220m estimated for setting up the internal market . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Too often we are faced with clamouring up the slippery slopes to the law more than sliding down them . |
| 14 | All the approaches mentioned so far are engaged in dividing up the musical field in a particular way — between this and that , better and worse , elite and mass , higher and lower , aristocratic and plebeian , and so on . |
| 15 | We instantly felt the week was getting off to a good start , a feeling reinforced by waking up the following morning to new , slightly heavy snow . |
| 16 | The annual number of night visits was obtained by adding up the four quarterly totals ending in September in each year . |
| 17 | The impression of ‘ busyness ’ was achieved by setting up the 1953 Beaver Committee . |
| 18 | The evangelical movement within the Church of England , from the royal proclamation of 1787 issued at the instigation of William Wilberforce , aimed at stirring up the vigilant suppression of " vice " and attacked pastimes even when they were not breaking the sabbath . |
| 19 | The two countries also agreed to joint projects aimed at cleaning up the Baltic waters . |
| 20 | I wish they would adopt the positive principle of looking at something and seeing the good in it — seeing how it can be improved by building up the positive aspects . |