Example sentences of "have [vb pp] up [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Palatine now brew their own house lager ( ‘ Palatinate ’ ) and have joined up with a number of other smaller regional breweries to market independent products such as Dulverton Cider . |
2 | The measures will be even tighter than those instituted for all flights from French airports a week ago — which include the X-raying of all hold baggage , new controls on hand baggage , and body searches — that have added up to an hour to flight checks-ins . |
3 | Cover Girl have come up with a computer to help you select the most flattering shade of make-up . |
4 | ‘ We have applied for charitable status and we have come up with a slogan , Only Together We Can Win . ’ |
5 | Now , strangely , Spalding have come up with a ball which measures 1.717 but which they call simply a 1.72 — the legal requirement regarding size , as stipulated in Clause ( b ) of Appendix III of the Rules of Golf , being only that the diameter of the ball shall be not less than 1.680 inches ( 42.67mm ) . |
6 | ‘ As an example , we have come up with a de-sulphurization system to prevent damage to natural gas pipelines and a North Sea gas rig has had the equipment installed . |
7 | Banks have come up with a development of their IOR Checkmate sails , which were Kevlar and Mylar , and now build CHS Checkmate sails in a special Dacron fabric developed in the UK ; they carry no CHS penalty . |
8 | SCIENTISTS from the General Electric Company in New York have come up with a way of measuring how much charge is left in a lead-acid battery . |
9 | FoE campaigner Viv Mountford said : ‘ We have always said that if ICI build an incinerator it could attract other ‘ dirty industry ’ and now already North West Water have come up with a scheme to burn sewage sludge in Widnes . |
10 | However , the authors of WFP have not thought the matter through and have come up with a set of proposals which will simply divert attention away from the real agenda which does exist for NHS capital accounting . |
11 | Recently the neurochemists have come up with a set of toxins which appear to be fairly effective in destroying only cell bodies , leaving axons intact ( Kohler et al . |
12 | They have come up with a list of questions to ask candidates when the come canvassing to your door to check how green they are . |
13 | Now the Scottish Prison Service and the Scottish Council for Single Homeless have come up with a package that attempts to address the problem . |
14 | I wonder if they have come up against a rapacity of the of the rates . |
15 | He also said he is ‘ very optimistic ’ about the NCR computer division , where orders from Europe recently have picked up after a period of extreme softness . |
16 | Everything is different from Ilkley though we have met up with a family from Leeds , which makes it more like home . ’ |
17 | It is easy to be unaware of the pressures we are under until they have built up to a head . |
18 | So we realize we 're not gon na be here to change the habits that have built up over a lifetime . |
19 | I am aware of agency nurses who have turned up at a hospital expecting to work on a ward caring for elderly people , only to be sent to work in the intensive care unit . |
20 | The pretenders became genuine contenders by showing how much they have grown up as a team . |
21 | No I especially hope it will be read by sceptics , by people who have grown up with a kind of psychologically inspired dismissal of religion , people who 've become so sophisticated , so busy they have no time for it , people who are so bemused by technology , by the greatness of human achievement , the computers , the moon rockets , the medical advances , that in their worship of human talent they forget that there 's a point where human power ends and the power of God begins . |
22 | Jobs apart , looking young and sexy may still seem important and desirable to many of those who have grown up in a society which lays such emphasis on youth and sex . |
23 | the women 's traditional role of instinctive carer is one explanation , particularly amongst women who have grown up in a family of disabled or dependent relatives , willingness to accept low pay is another . |
24 | Many adults have grown up in an environment in which they have picked up extremely infantile notions — notions which have never been challenged directly , but which , because of their almost total inadequacy and failure to square with other knowledge and experience , cause religion itself to be rejected as people become more sophisticated in other departments of life and other areas of knowledge . |
25 | Now markets have opened up as a result of making desks ; we now design and produce complete study and library schemes , designed to fit . |
26 | They have washed up on a shingle strand beside a lonely and barely habitable estancia . |
27 | I recently bought a 4ft aquarium , which I have set up as a community tank . |
28 | Another top rock outfit , AEROSMITH , have signed up for a show at the Point Depot in Dublin on October |
29 | We have ended up in a mess . |
30 | In a society in which achievement is highly valued , and where people compete for jobs in an apparently open market , people may feel a sense of failure if they admit they have ended up in a job with which they are dissatisfied . |