Example sentences of "up [adj] [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , in 1851 his health again gave cause for serious anxiety and he was compelled to give up full-time activity at the early age of forty-two . |
| 2 | Where planning permission is required an architect will need to be instructed to draw up complete plans of the proposed work which are thereafter submitted to the local planning office . |
| 3 | There is , however , no simple way of fully dividing up total costs among the different parts of the railway , such as the provincial or suburban sectors in BR . |
| 4 | He had lined up assorted members of the crack US Navy team known as the Seals , a 100-horsepower Zodiac boat , a helicopter , and an oxygen back-pack with six minutes of air . |
| 5 | This Partnership will be charged with drawing up specific goals for the Compact and planning a structure to implement their achievement . |
| 6 | Solidarity ministers , who this time last year were huddled in places like Warsaw 's scruffy Czytelnik café plotting nothing more ambitious than the legalisation of their union , now wake up each morning to the daunting task of building a new democratic Poland on the rubble of the old communist one . |
| 7 | However much he refuses to shy away from the hopeless , endless horror of what he sees , he can not give up that quest for the perfect paradise . |
| 8 | And the massive Independent Television outside broadcast unit ensemble helped to make it a busy day at Horsted Keynes with the Bluebell already geared up that day for the official launch of the Southern Q1 they have restored on behalf of the National Railway Museum . |
| 9 | It took the Marines a remarkably short time to set up defensible emplacements on the wide dockside , before Mortimer sent his men into the city , ordering small groups to leapfrog each other in order to secure the university and consulates . |
| 10 | Some use the articles as a focus to call up guiding spirits of the cosmic force . |
| 11 | He would make available an extra £750 million to be used before the end of this financial year to buy up empty properties in the owner-occupied sector . |
| 12 | Those he had asked , Nora among them , set off at once to take up conspicuous stations around the northern fringes of the wood . |
| 13 | Follow a track and turn right up another drive to the eastern side of the dam . |
| 14 | Burrows shows how Jane Austen makes skilful use of the common words to build up different idiolects for the different persons in the novels to bring out the differences in their characters . |
| 15 | ‘ I simply ca n't understand why it was necessary to dredge up this story before the whole world , ’ assistant trainer , Leonty Goncharenko , said . |
| 16 | Sutton was later going to have to cope with marrying up this formula to the new direct-entry computer system , which was being sorted out by systems editor Eugenie Verney , a sub-editor made redundant from the Daily Express in Manchester , who had previously worked on the Guardian . |
| 17 | For those whose fingers ca n't forget 1-2-3 for DOS , pressing the / key pops up this imitation of the original Lotus menu system |
| 18 | It was the usual sequence : we 'd picked up this batch from the mass grave , in the woods , and stood waiting by the van on the approach road while the carbon monoxide went about its work . |
| 19 | Buffalo , zebra , wildebeest , topi , and Thomson 's gazelle live together in huge groups which together make up some 90% of the total weight of mammals living on the Serengeti . |
| 20 | I would also be prepared to take up some responsibility in the popular government , It will be a less oppressed life , more tranquil , although perhaps at home there will only be me because my husband and my two sons have been murdered by the army and the others have gone to fight . |
| 21 | Privately-held SAS ploughs an estimated 40% of its revenues back into research and development — its 1991 figures of $295m were 23% up on 1990 , it says , with the European sector accounting for 178m Deutschmarks , up some 34% on the previous year . |
| 22 | Stannard also works impressively hard , though far less convincingly , at making us dig up some sympathy with the private agony of Waugh . |
| 23 | Meantime process-type industries make up some 60% of the total number of Ross 's manufacturing customers — a figure that is expected to grow in line with the expected 15% to 20% increase in the UK market for process-based systems — and Ross intends it to include an increasing number of large multinational customers . |
| 24 | The object of the all-expenses paid trip was for Mr Dorman to pick up some tips from the Japanese to promote musical learning among children . |
| 25 | CLOWNING AROUND : Clowns from the Head Office ‘ Clown 's Cocktail Bar ’ picked up 1st prize in the Fancy Dress judged by , wife of group MD , . |
| 26 | Yet at least the storm does seem to be over , and the peasants are picking up fallen sticks in the devastated forest . |
| 27 | After their success in the World Cup , Australian administrators and officials are keen to use the game 's newly acquired high profile to promote rugby back home and to make up lost ground on the other two codes — rugby league and Australian Rules . |
| 28 | The enormity of this lie was so great that its ripples did in fact spread out one of the lower astral planes as far as the Magical Quarter across the river , where it picked up tremendous velocity from the huge standing wave of power that always hovered there and bounced wildly across the Circle Sea . |
| 29 | Talks held on Nov. 3 between President Franjo Tudjman of Croatia , President Alija Izetbegovic of Bosnia-Hercegovina and Mate Boban , effectively the Croatian leader in Bosnia , resulted in an agreement to set up joint commands in the self-proclaimed Croatian Community of Herceg-Bosna [ see p. 39103 ] . |
| 30 | Contingent economic agreements provided for a repeal of the US ban on the import of Soviet gold coins , the lifting of restrictions on Soviet borrowing from the US government 's Export-Import Bank ( which was expected to stimulate US companies ' interest in setting up joint ventures in the Soviet Union ) , and payment by the Soviet Union of a debt of US$674,000,000 owed for supplies furnished under the Lend-Lease programme during the Second World War . |