Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] up [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Herbert also penned the verses which have come to sum up the general fate of such investigations : |
| 2 | The French Navy has begun an operation designed to clean up the toxic seaweed which is threatening marine life in the Mediterranean off the south coast [ see ED 53/54 ] . |
| 3 | The fact that this was the chosen approach of the Evil One in tempting Eve should give us a healthy respect for its subtlety and danger : ‘ Did God say … ? ’ he asked : His innocent-sounding questions about the facts of the case were designed to open up the deeper issue of God 's goodness . |
| 4 | D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles is hotly tipped to pick up the creative account for St Ivel 's Shape and Gold brands , currently handled by J Walter Thompson . |
| 5 | The couple is expected to set up a separate residence for themselves on or shortly after marriage ( that is , and has long been , a general European pattern ) , and the chief obligations of the spouses are to each other and to their children , and only after that to their own families of origin . |
| 6 | NORMAN Riddell , the chief executive of Capital House , the fund management arm of the Royal Bank of Scotland , has resigned to take up a similar position at Invesco-MIM . |
| 7 | At the same time it was announced Leckpatick chief executive Malcolm Woods had resigned to take up a new position as managing director of John Kelly , Belfast . |
| 8 | No woman should be expected to bring up a large family on her own . |
| 9 | The two local favourites , Claire Waddell , who currently leads the Grand Prix , and Julie Nicol are expected to make up the semi-final line-up . |
| 10 | Supplements therefore are designed to make up the basic food ingredients and balance them to keep the horse healthy . |
| 11 | ( d ) Restraint covenants Whenever it is intended to open up a new office the partners must as a matter of urgency consider the adequacy of the restraint covenants to which they have agreed to submit themselves and which they have imposed on their key employees . |
| 12 | The Soviet neutralisation plan for the Persian Gulf may have been intended to open up a strategic dialogue on a broad front to enable Soviet diplomats to introduce Western military preponderance in the Gulf region tacitly or explicitly into the negotiation process for the limitation of Soviet military influence in other regions . |
| 13 | Debriefed in fine detail by Donleavy and DIA agent Neal Miller , largely to see what could be done to patch up a new link with the Asmar network , Coleman was told to keep the video gear pending a resolution of ‘ this goddamn DEA fuck-up ’ and to take charge of Syrian George , who , as it happened , had arrived two days earlier on his J-1 visa and was staying at the International House on the University of Alabama campus . |
| 14 | I hope that the Minister will listen carefully to the call from the Opposition and ensure that when privatisation takes place , the golden opportunity will not be missed to set up the Scottish bus passenger consultative committee , which , we hope , will examine customers ' complaints and safeguard their interests . |
| 15 | A proposal by the BAPU parliamentary group to repeal Paragraph 1 , defining Bulgaria as a " People 's Republic " and as " a socialist state of the working people from town and country , headed by a working class " , was rejected on procedural grounds after a heated debate , but it was decided to set up a working group of government and opposition representatives to examine this and other possible constitutional amendments , with a view to submitting proposals to a forthcoming National Assembly session . |
| 16 | The Transport Secretary has decided to set up a new rail pension scheme to safeguard their interests . |
| 17 | ( B ) The conference had decided to set up a national assembly composed of 123 members based on the number of constituencies existing before 1969 with a speaker and two deputy speakers . |
| 18 | It was therefore decided to set up a Royal Commission to review the whole problem of criminal behaviour and of the means of dealing with it . |
| 19 | It was also decided to draw up a new party programme along social democratic lines in advance of multiparty elections in Slovenia in April . |
| 20 | When under Nicholas the governor of each province was instructed to draw up an annual report , the information supplied was hopelessly vague and did nothing to identify the major weaknesses and problems of the administration . |
| 21 | ‘ Because I 've decided to give up the artificial fiction of being myself for the genuine , satisfying falseness of being somebody else . |
| 22 | What worries me , said one Vice-Chancellor , is that the policy of the government is to leave the universities autonomous , as they are , with the implication that they are irresponsible , to stew in their own juice , while an attempt is made to build up a rival system , via the CNAA . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , to forestall the wreck , the party secretariat prepared to wind up the secret Supply and Transport Committee before the Labour Party uncovered its strike-breaking organisation . |
| 24 | This illustrated the urgency of many commando and other wartime activities when the time needed to set up a special operation was almost impossibly short , but the official records do not show the efforts behind the scenes in preparing the ground . |
| 25 | There seemed to be a veritable army of helpers needed to open up the big downstairs rooms , and wherever she went there seemed yet another one poised to ask her a question she was unable to answer . |
| 26 | AN £8 MILLION grant will be used to clean up a disused tin mine which turned an estuary red with pollution . |
| 27 | Show how software that allows alternate indexes to be created can be used to set up an inverted file system |
| 28 | Had the Inland Revenue won , it would have affected so many employees — tax practitioners claim hundreds of thousands — that the Revenue would have had to set up a special unit just to cope with the paperwork . |
| 29 | At Guy 's Hospital the poisons unit has had to set up a psychiatric liaison service to help such patients . |
| 30 | His experiments on the nature of lightning were truly pioneering , starting at Marly in France where a dragoon was persuaded to pick up a long brass wire inside a glass bottle which acted as an insulator . |