Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [verb] up [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Further deployments ( with American crews ) were not ruled out — though Washington did not in practice take up this option .
2 James Molyneaux and the Rev Ian Paisley have already set this deadline for the resumption of talks and even as their two parties vigorously fought each other in several constituencies , joint working groups were in session drawing up vital working papers for the forthcoming negotiations .
3 presented a ‘ grid ’ file that performs particularly well when the number of search attributes is ten or less , and offers a high data storage utilization , good growth characteristics and efficient processing of range queries ; Stanfill and Kahle explain the principles of a parallel free-text search on a particular parallel computer , and claim a retrieval speed of 2 — 3 minutes for Boolean queries of 25 and 20000 terms respectively when the database in question takes up 15 Gbytes of storage space .
4 She might have offered something to eat , as most Northern women believe they have a mission in life to feed up any male who can still see his feet .
5 Banks involved with London 's Canary Wharf project agreed in principle to put up another £500m ( $186m ) to get the project back on the road again — under their ownership .
6 THE biggest airline partnership in history broke up last night in the crossfire of a new trade war between Britain and the United States .
7 She tried however to pin her thoughts on other matters and , recalling that Ven had only returned to Mariánské Láznë in order to pick up some papers , she realised that , since they were important enough for him to make the four-hour return journey , he must want them to hand over to someone else .
8 Nonetheless , hostility to socialist realism runs deep and it would seem appropriate and productive at this stage to examine briefly the more critical views of the practice of Stalinist socialist realism articulated quite dramatically by Georg Lukacs himself , in order to draw up another set of criteria by which to assess Nizan 's communist novels .
9 And more extensive forms of record-keeping are required in order to build up fashionable supplements to GCSE such as profiles , and records or certificates of achievement .
10 Nearly one million people have now had to claim mean-tested benefits in order to top up low pay .
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