Example sentences of "[vb base] up the [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the wealth creators , he said , who open up the great possibilities for improvement in our society . |
| 2 | from the first of 1 january 1994 a treaty between the EC and EFTA open up the previous regulations for work permits between the countries of the EC ( or maybe EEC ? — eg Great Britain , Spain , Germany + 10 and EFTA ( Norway , Sweden , Switzerland + a couple of others ) . |
| 3 | Sam Reed scored twice and then set up the third goal for Tom Cox . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm hopeless with the till — I ring up the same price for everything and I 'm always worried a keen-eyed viewer will spot it ! ’ |
| 5 | In our part of the world we keep up the brave talk for the sake of the image of the region , so that there may be at least some inward investment and so that those industrialists , small business , training centres , local enterprises and cooperatives which are struggling so hard to make a go of it , will not be discouraged from at least having a go , but there is n't much hope and conviction really . |
| 6 | Colleagues who one year lecture you at the Star Chamber on how you have more than enough money turn up the next asking for extra themselves . |
| 7 | Human societies use up the instinctual energy for other purposes than those of immediate individual gratification . |
| 8 | Further to the question from my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) , and given the obvious confusion among Ministers about the implications of their electoral promises for the future level of value added tax , can the Leader of the House conjure up the actual figure for value added tax when his Government came to office in June 1979 , and the level now as they go out of office ? |