Example sentences of "have [vb pp] up [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have given up a lot of my independence . ’ |
| 2 | These doctors have given up the notion of being specialists and of being involved in hospital medicine but the idea of coping with the medical problem is still a potent force in their ideologies . |
| 3 | How many millions similar to him have given up the ghost of ambition or had it driven out of them ? |
| 4 | We saved the party in nineteen eighty three , the G M B saved the party in that er , a crisis time th with the formation of the S D P and today the Tory government on its knees , staggering along and we have some people in the leadership of the Party and including , we can name them now , somebody 's written , writte written to all the constituencies , Neil Kinnock , who have given up the ghost of Labour ever winning again , and that 's what 's the base and the root of what 's going on , that 's why they want these proposals going through , they want to separate the trade unions from the Party so they can do a deal with the Liberals because they 've given up . |
| 5 | He quotes approvingly an anonymous ‘ youth ’ who believes that gay men have given up the battle between men : ‘ they 've submitted to men … . |
| 6 | The leases have brewed up a storm in Darlington as landlords say they could mean the end of many traditional pubs . |
| 7 | And we have speeded up the benefits of revaluation for those businesses who gain from it . |
| 8 | The reforms have speeded up the pace of resource management ( now being rolled out to all acute units ) , made medical audit compulsory and strengthened managers ' formal powers over clinicians . |
| 9 | The storms have speeded up the process of new though on such matters ; more or less overnight they have provided the opportunity to create a new order . |
| 10 | Once you have added up the figures in the budget planner , you will have to deduct income tax to arrive at the net spending amount available to you . |
| 11 | ‘ In any case , I have looked up the time of your flight . |
| 12 | But City have picked up a bit with a draw at Chelsea and a comfortable win against Crystal Palace , and with the suspended Morley replaced by Oldfield , who knows where the goal is , they will be confident today . |
| 13 | Both Arsenal and United have picked up a stack of yellow cards . |
| 14 | At the other end of the scale , however , our machines have picked up a host of animal noises at frequencies above the range of our ears , called ultrasound . |
| 15 | ‘ The C & D category societies ( the smallest ) have picked up a lot of savings business by offering high interest rates , but that money has to be lent out and the sort of mortgage business they have been picking up at the rates they charge looks very doubtful to me . |
| 16 | Top equity and foreign exchange dealers have picked up a minimum of £200,000 before bonuses and perks — the real whiz-kids making upwards of £300,000 . |
| 17 | This season of exhibitions promises a unique and long awaited opportunity to address , at first hand , the current concerns and practices of the women artists who have picked up the gauntlet of the conventional ‘ feminism versus modernism ’ polarisation . |
| 18 | ‘ The Millar ’ are to be seen regularly at numerous parades and have built up a reputation of excellent musical ability , together with superb marching talent . |
| 19 | What they do find difficult is filling their day once they have actually come off drugs because they have built up a kind of lifestyle that has already been said |
| 20 | We know that people do not drift away from their main sources of financial help , social support and continuing treatment , particularly if they have built up a relationship with someone in the service they trust . |
| 21 | They have built up a list of people all over the world who have been sending them football songs and now send Beatles covers as well . |
| 22 | In that time they have built up a force of one hundred and fifty vehicles and three hundred and forty staff . |
| 23 | ‘ Over the years I have built up a collection of around 1,700 . ’ |
| 24 | They copy each other 's institutions ; and , to strengthen their common interests , they have built up a series of common institutions — international unions to govern postal , railway and tele-graphic communication , conferences and conventions to regulate affairs both of property ( such as copyright ) and labour ; international law courts ( at the Hague and elsewhere ) supported by a network of Arbitration and other treaties ; a sort of World-Duma , in the periodical Peace Conferences at the Hague ; and last but not least , the growing international organisation of the Labour and Socialist movements . |
| 25 | I have built up a conception in which the agents belonging to a given economic class ( defined at the level of property holding ) may be distributed in various ways into more or less strongly formed social collectivities of various degrees of political pertinence . |
| 26 | However , the evaluators are not satisfied that they have built up a picture of library use which permits them to be confident in drawing firm conclusions about the project 's success in these terms . |
| 27 | Indeed , to the extent that inflationary expectations have built up a momentum of their own that it regards as excessive , the government may be forced to adopt demand management policies which aim to raise the unemployment rate above the natural rate so as to throw the process outlined above into reverse gear . |
| 28 | Never rinse reusable filter materials in tap water and never use detergents or you will damage or totally destroy the beneficial bacteria that have built up the efficiency of the filter unit . |
| 29 | US AGENTS have turned up the pressure on the besieged Texas cult by using glaring floodlights on the compound and cutting off electricity , and those inside are trying to communicate with banners and Morse code . |
| 30 | " No , my dear , you are just as tired as I am , and I shall rest presently in the dressing-room where I have made up a bed for myself . |