Example sentences of "[vb mod] not [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 One must not open up the possibility for either partner in a marriage or a relationship to murder their partner , not as a result of a sudden , temporary loss of control , but as a result of a careful , well thought out and premeditated plan .
2 I would suggest that we can deal with these parties if they arise but that we should not hold up the negotiations with the top four .
3 They had decided that they should not walk up the staircase to the throne room but find another route to approach their captors .
4 Yes , let's not open up the debate about chairmanship of meetings er , got a couple more people
5 She could conceivably be denied by Kitrina Douglas , the winner of this season 's St Moritz Classic and European Masters , although even if she were to win each of the last four tournaments , she still might not make up the £30,000 deficit on De Lorenzi .
6 Top-up arrangements are not permitted as part of a tender offer ( SAR 4.1(c) ) so the buyer could not make up the difference to shareholders who have already sold if a full bid on improved terms is made subsequently .
7 If the plaintiff was in possession at the time of the conversion , the defendant could not set up the jus tertii , unless he was acting under the authority of the true owner .
8 Guttersnipe could not summon up the enthusiasm required to wade through sufficient of this turgid stuff to find out what the ‘ bizarre test ’ was but suspects it might have something to do with explaining the meaning of the words ‘ Do-be-do-be-do ’ at the end of his popular tune ‘ Strangers In The Night ’ .
9 Sadly , it was inevitable that we could not keep up the pace against Twitchit Albion , especially with so many of our squad approaching the twilight of their careers .
10 At present it appears that local authorities can draw up individual access arrangements with the new owners , but this is not a satisfactory solution , partly because some authorities may not have the motivation to do so , and partly because they are all very short of money and could not back up the agreements financially .
11 They had sent a telegram to Louise ( Constance could not pluck up the courage to speak to her ) ; Ludovico had telephoned a friend about somewhere for them to stay and they had eaten what to Constance , used to English food , seemed the most delicious lunch she had ever tasted .
12 We need not take up the argument here : let us , instead , turn to the more interesting subject of the explanations offered by the Ndembu themselves for certain key symbolic motifs .
13 Until the Sheffield incident , the MoD had abided by an agreement with Exocet 's French manufacturers that the British would not open up the missile 's guidance section .
14 The hon. Gentleman says that that is what he is advocating , and says that we should reintroduce it now for those who face a shortfall in fees , but it would not make up the shortfall , because it would be part of the reasonable rate of fees .
15 Clearly upset , the 51-year-old entrepreneur said that his group would not give up the fight .
16 ( 2 ) That the King would not give up the chance of marrying Mrs Simpson .
17 ‘ Paula Milne 's powerful and controversial play is a fictional account of her own experience of having a mongol baby and deciding , with her husband Peter , that they would not bring up the child .
18 She would not take up the cudgels of such a battle .
19 I shall not take up the argument of the hon. Member for Durham , North ( Mr. Radice ) ; it would be unwise to do so .
20 We will not give up the US customer base to anyone unless it 's done in a partnership .
21 France and the USSR have already indicated that they will not make up the deficit .
22 Likud sources are confident the disagreements over how to respond to the Mubarak proposals will not break up the government .
23 Banks will not take up the slack .
24 ‘ Certain highly technical factors , intelligible only to the expert and with which I will not take up the time of this inquest , have led me to conclude that Subject A had been dead for more than nine years and less than twelve .
25 It requires , among other things , that there be so many buyers and sellers that none can affect prices ; if a firm cuts its output it will not push up the price .
26 When current and capital expenditure in these areas is substantially reduced , private enterprise inevitably suffers , for it can not make up the loss by diverting its activities to other private sectors .
27 Whatever flickerings of potential this young tyro possesses , they can not cover up the fact that he is a painter with the imagination of a retarded adolescent ; no technical mastery ; no intuitive feeling for pictorial space ; no sensitivity towards , or grasp of , tradition ; and a colour sense rather less than that of Congo , the chimpanzee who was taught ( among other things ) a crude responsiveness to colour harmonies by Desmond Morris in the late 1950s .
28 But if it is cold , a monarch can not work up the energy to fly and can only manage to crawl up the nearest sage brush .
29 I have details here of scores of cases , but as I can not take up the time of the House in referring to all of them , I will pick one or two examples .
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