Example sentences of "have [verb] up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WordPerfect has given up on the Wild West theme in favour of giving away peagreen baseball hats . |
| 2 | Hick has a classic stance , but by the time the bowler has reached the crease he has come up into the familiar upright position with the bat raised . |
| 3 | JOHN KASMIN , or ‘ Kasmin ’ , as everyone calls him , has come up with the ultimate solution to the art slump . |
| 4 | East Grinstead , West Sussex-based company Shakespeare Speechwriter UK Ltd , formerly EMG Software , has come up with the ultimate system for keyboard-phobes — a voice activated personal computer . |
| 5 | This hits application performance , but the company has come up with the innovative idea of letting users run NLMs in protected mode until they are proved stable , after which they can be invited into the same memory segment as the core operating system to boost performance . |
| 6 | The Social Democrat Edith Niehuis has come up with the dubious argument that , because of the Catholic approach to female priests ( who have practised in the Protestant Church here for two decades ) , the tax is an ‘ unconstitutional discrimination against women ’ . |
| 7 | One-colour borders have been enjoying renewed popularity recently , and Mr Fothergill 's Seeds has come up with the perfect quick answer to monochrome gardening . |
| 8 | Now , last weekend 's cycle ride down the new section of the M forty once looked threatened by being blown away as the Met Office warned of impending storms , but in fact the sun shone down on the riders and today , less than a week the counting is done and Mike Biddolph from Oxfordshire County Council , who also took part in the event , has come up with the grand total of — how much have you raised Mike ? |
| 9 | In the USA , I discovered from a report by Dermot Pungavie in the Daily Mail , for those mourners who wish to view but are short of time , one funeral director in Chicago has come up with the novel idea of drive-in viewing . |
| 10 | Uncertainty extends also to the question of Molla Yegan 's death date , about which a wide divergence of opinion has grown up amongst the various sources , who give dates ranging from 840/1436–7 to 878/1473–4 . |
| 11 | In this century , a substantial body of functionally differentiated statute law has grown up around the landlord–tenant relationship , such that today the nineteenth-century rules have limited — though still very important — practical application . |
| 12 | The capital that has grown up around the old village of Muscat is a place of broad roads , shops , trees and flowers , imposing offices and graceful buildings in great variety . |
| 13 | The town has grown up around the magnificent 13th century Scaliger castle which towers above the water from a sheer rock and offers the most fantastic views . |
| 14 | It has shot up in the recent hot sun , while the grass at the city 's other cemeteries has been burned off . |
| 15 | An encouraging aspect of the Rossini celebration is the wider view of his art which has opened up in the past quarter of a century . |
| 16 | A third source of opportunity has opened up by the increased willingness of many firms to contemplate non-traditional forms of investment ( NFI ) , also in their marginal territories . |
| 17 | Abbey National has woken up to the extra expense that a remortgage brings and is offering £200 towards legal fees on completion . |
| 18 | In posing the idea of such an ‘ iron law ’ Bukharin unwittingly predicted the actual course of events in the Soviet Union that has persisted up to the present time , that is , the continual shortfall of consumer goods production as compared to the growing population and the growth in monetary incomes . |
| 19 | In addition , Harland & Wolff has teamed up with the Japanese manufacturing giant Kawasaki , and so far has sent 60 people across to the Japanese yards to study their methods . |
| 20 | PRINCESS Diana has teamed up with the Red Cross and the Daily Mirror to launch a nationwide awards scheme . |
| 21 | The Swedish influence has continued up to the present day , where the Faunus Kennel has a great influence on the breeding stock in Norway . |
| 22 | The two-layered cameo of Augustus which has ended up in the British Museum bears tangible evidence of regard , even of awe , in the delicate circlet of gems , including a miniature cameo , affixed to it while in the hands of a medieval owner ( fig. 26 ) . |
| 23 | He 'd looked up at the great thing dropping out of the sky right towards his head , and had flung himself down , expecting at any second to become just a little greasy mark in a great big hole . |
| 24 | As they staggered out of their tepees and another faultless day came smooching in from the Pacific , they would sniff the honeyed air and ask one another what they 'd got up to the previous night . |
| 25 | He 'd drawn up outside the old town house , cut the engine . |
| 26 | ‘ They have already had a bit of excitement , while the rest of the country has had to put up with the phoney war . ’ |
| 27 | Soon they will have to go up to the front-line again . |
| 28 | Er , this refers back to something said , a little while ago , talking about the fitness of judges , having come up through the legal system . |
| 29 | If we had stayed longer we would have caught up with the three-day Dartington Conference on Building a Sustainable Future for Rural Britain , addressed by such luminaries in this field as Marion Shoard , Malcolm Moseley and David Lock . |
| 30 | Children , having built up in the early stages of their lives an ‘ ego ideal ’ with whom they have had apparently satisfactory relationships , are for the rest of their lives attempting to transfer this ideal on to other people or organisations . |