Example sentences of "[subord] [adj] [noun pl] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until human beings take up roles in an enterprise , it is merely a collection of buildings and plant . |
| 2 | If governing bodies set up finance committees as part of a school 's organization to meet the requirements of local management , governors and parents are more likely to be able to be involved in management decisions . |
| 3 | The peasant revolt that broke out in February 1921 in the Tambov guberniia threatened to cut off rail connections between Moscow and the Volga region , since hungry peasants held up wheat trains and ransacked them . |
| 4 | My wilful grasp upon it had been entirely unproblematic , as sure as neat fingers picking up pins , or knitting , and then casting off the atomic stitches of the material world . |
| 5 | As more women take up exercise , there is an urgent need to know about its effects on the outcome of pregnancy . |
| 6 | Hot-rodding was born when young men souped up vehicles and raced along the black-top roads and dry lake beds around Los Angeles in the 1940s and 1950s . |
| 7 | This is expected to be the first of many similar cases to come to light as local councils draw up registers of contaminated land under the Environmental Protection Act . |