Example sentences of "has [verb] up a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tadpole US has picked up a new president , Kenneth Cannizzaro , previously the firm 's director of business development : he 's responsible for operations and market expansion in the Americas and the Pacific Rim . |
| 2 | The BBC has picked up a similar trend . |
| 3 | Michael Roberts has picked up a two-week ban in South Africa for the second time this winter . |
| 4 | Keith Campbell , from north Belfast , has picked up a top award from computer firm Digital after coming first in the BTEC National Diploma in a computer studies course at Belfast Institute School of Informatics . |
| 5 | But since Rayful 's father started him off in the business with a packet of cocaine from New York , prosecutors allege that Mr Edmond has built up a vast business concern , generating sales of up to $2m ( £1.25m ) a week . |
| 6 | The questionnaire has built up a socio-economic background to the financial and physical environment that family and part-time farmers have to live in . |
| 7 | The general issue of reconciling with his academic interests the feeling of social commitment to an underprivileged group with whom the researcher has built up a strong feeling of empathy is discussed by Labov ( 1982b ) ; this discussion forms a preliminary to his account of the use made of linguistic evidence by the defendants in the famous Black English Trial in Michigan . |
| 8 | Over the years , Michael has built up a wide circle of customers and friends worldwide , who visit whenever in London . |
| 9 | It has built up a solid reputation amongst user education practitioners in the USA and is now the undisputed national clearinghouse for that country . |
| 10 | The gallery has built up a well-balanced programme of work offering an annual arrangement of exhibitions clearly influenced by a strong equal opportunities policy . |
| 11 | Nomad has built up a loyal customer base , owing in part , say the Curries , to its ‘ bright airy atmosphere ’ and to the level of personal service provided . |
| 12 | Three Choirs has built up a good reputation and has proved popular with wine buyers . |
| 13 | During his search for parts he has built up a colossal spares stock , but as the type has been used by so many air forces around the world and is still in service in places , components are not difficult to obtain — although they can be pricey . |
| 14 | Carol , a jeweller for more than 25 years , has built up a steady following for her original designs in the six years since she moved out of London and started her own business . |
| 15 | We hear that Intel Corp has written up a bunch of Q&As for its people to use answering questions that touch on Digital Equipment Corp 's rival Alpha chip , while Microsoft Corp has written up a similar document on Unix compared with NT . |
| 16 | We hear Intel Corp has written up a bunch of Q&As for its people to use answering questions that touch on DEC 's competitive Alpha chip , while Microsoft Corp has written up a similar document on Unix compared with NT . |
| 17 | We know people were treasuring this hope at the time of Jesus , because in the caves of Qumran there has turned up a messianic anthology which includes the prophecy given to David in 2 Samuel 7:14 . |
| 18 | The Mental Health Act 1983 has stirred up a good deal of argument and controversy , which is , arguably , a very good thing in an area where individual liberty is at such risk . |
| 19 | On the other hand , the quantum theory of gravity has opened up a new possibility , in which there would be no boundary to space-time and so there would be no need to specify the behavior at the boundary . |
| 20 | In the developed world , the harnessing of fossil fuel energy as well as other scientific developments , and their application to agricultural systems , has opened up a new range of agricultural possibilities : but all this has happened over a relatively long time period and is not without its environmental implications . |
| 21 | It is also worth noting that the questioning has opened up a new area of exploration — that of symbol and meaning . |
| 22 | ONE of Britain 's most famous cathedrals has wrapped up a fund-raising deal … with fast-food giant McDonald 's . |
| 23 | This is the role of commercial group 's distribution services and it 's this department which has drawn up a new packaging policy and code of practice . |
| 24 | Cleveland Child Protection Committee has drawn up a new constitution in a bid to stamp out physical and sexual abuse in children as well as neglect and ill treatment . |
| 25 | The ban will last until a special committee under the minister for science and technology has drawn up a new set of rules to control the activities of foreign research workers . |
| 26 | In an effort to improve prospects for the latter , the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has drawn up a four-year plan . |
| 27 | The sums of money at stake are large — Grampian has drawn up a six-year programme envisaging spending around £33 million on the north-east fishing communities and west Aberdeenshire . |
| 28 | If your training routine has played up a chronic injury , then apply a light pressure bandage to the knee before beginning the day 's competition . |
| 29 | Well , it is summertime and if you have trouble getting time on the courts here in town and tripping to the Hamptons presents a problem why not simply go to Terry Dintenfass where the witty William King he of the loopy lanky aluminoids has set up a gallery-wide installation called ‘ Tennis : The Monument ’ ? |
| 30 | International has set up a worldwide installation service for Seacontrol . |