Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [verb] up a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as the critics were beginning to complain about overdoses of city life along came Cagney to inject new energy into the genre and in effect to open up a new era for the movies . |
| 2 | Fourth , it stipulated that once Saddam Hussein had been overthrown " direct and free " elections would be held to a constituent council , which would in turn draw up a new constitution . |
| 3 | Of course , consistency in notation builds up a certain level of skill with that notation , but it is vitally important to develop skills at least partially independent of a single notation . |
| 4 | The rod , in order to pick up a long length of sunken line , should be a minimum of 11ft long , and a maximum of 12ft or it becomes unwieldy . |
| 5 | But Vienna proved to be the last summit for six years and SALT II was never ratified by the US Senate , for in December the Red Army invaded neighbouring Afghanistan in order to prop up a weak Marxist government . |
| 6 | In order to draw up a balanced invitation list , prospective contributors are asked to state , in less than 100 words , their perspective on the topic and return it to the Initiative 's Secretariat by the 30th April 1991 . |
| 7 | In order to divide up a lengthy recording of conversational data into chunks which can be investigated in detail , the analyst is often forced to depend on intuitive notions about where one part of a conversation ends and another begins . |
| 8 | As we mentioned in Chapter 5 , at this stage you need only time-table three or perhaps four exercise routines per week ( where you get slightly breathless at each session for a half-hour period ) in order to keep up a reasonable degree of fitness . |
| 9 | In addition , the researchers are using The Mercury 's coverage of national events and events outside Leicestershire in order to build up a national picture . |
| 10 | There must be a myriad ruses and devices in the pursuit of happiness , and I could think of none in order to conjure up a complementary question . |
| 11 | The Commission had in fact drawn up a short list of six associations , from which the government was expected to select two groups . |
| 12 | In a cold , late spring it may prove difficult to graze off the rye in time to work up a good tilth for mangolds . |