Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun pl] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The notion of ‘ policy ’ is insufficiently precise to indicate the role of members , for example in the consideration of the scope and content of cost-improvement programmes to free up resources for developments and unfunded elements of pay awards . |
| 2 | And there , sure enough , was the interior of old Jean Damiani 's soap factory with a row of moustachioed Palestinians piling up bar after bar of soap around the walls . |
| 3 | A study of different ways to burn up plutonium by America 's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory came out against such clevernesses , at least as far as using up America 's surplus plutonium is concerned ( though it did recommend more research into a few ) . |
| 4 | The optimistic talk about the future of British films softened up sources of capital . |
| 5 | Even more did this apply to economic power — witness the failure of repeated attempts to build up copartnership or anything resembling profit-sharing in industry . |
| 6 | The harbour was filled with sleek , modern yachts berthed in front of countless restaurants serving up pizzas ( Italy is only 50 miles from Corsica 's east coast ) or fresh fish caught that morning . |
| 7 | All of these processes burn up fuel and energy is therefore lost in the transfer . |
| 8 | This leads to random fluctuations in the numbers of alternative variants making up gene families and , as in gene conversion , one variant copy may replace all the others throughout a sexual population . |
| 9 | All members of poor families picked up work whenever possible from the earliest ages — a means of survival which was easiest in the big cities where the largest number of casual jobs could be found such as cleaning , running errands and childminding . |
| 10 | I have a vision of resident tutors beating up classes with the cheerful persistence of a sports organiser on a trans-Atlantic liner ; of extra-mural directors deploying their forces through the English countryside , themselves deciding what classes are suitable for the people of Swindon and Banbury and Slough ; of district organisers calling on mill hands in the remotest dales of Yorkshire with the regularity of the man who collects the rent … |
| 11 | The Clinton administration is slowly turning its attention to the $14 billion that the US government will spend this year on basic research , conducting a review of six multi-billion-dollar interagency initiatives and convening a panel of senior administrators to draw up programmes for future budgets that correspond to the president 's domestic policy goals . |