Example sentences of "up the [noun sg] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Toby saw him take up the pile of wet flannel from beside the bath and chuck it at his face . |
| 2 | You could be opening up the way to new prosperity . |
| 3 | White liberals , including the President 's wife , Eleanor , gave their support to the cause of the blacks , and in 1941 Roosevelt set up the Committee on Fair Employment Practices . |
| 4 | June , the non-Communist nations in Europe , set up the Committee of European Co-operation in order to draft a European recovery programme , and in August , the first ‘ Marshall Aid ’ arrived in Greece , followed by military advisers to assist in the Civil War against Communism . |
| 5 | No matter how hard the WRU tried to dress up the occasion with male voice choirs and star tenors , there was little genuine entertainment on offer . |
| 6 | The amp 's master volume pot , headphone socket and mains switch make up the remainder of front panel controls . |
| 7 | Then the effort to locate industry in new areas and to build new towns showed up the weakness of local government as an executive agency and the first talk of reform began in Whitehall . |
| 8 | The programme does not apportion blame , or claim a conclusive link , but it points up the lack of long-term monitoring on people working with the chemicals , and suggests warning labels on the products do not always make clear what type of protective clothing is suitable . |
| 9 | I only wish I could mention everyone and everything that goes to make up the whole of Christian Aid and its spirit , but be assured that we do not forget any contribution or take anyone 's help for granted . |
| 10 | He also said that there 's no reason to give up the dream of economic growth but then there you go . |
| 11 | Other recommendations include the need for policies to speed up the exploitation of renewable energy technologies ( such as wind , wave , solar and geothermal power ) which do not Produce carbon dioxide , the most important greenhouse gas . |
| 12 | Leaving the pants in the cupboard was possibly a nothing , and picking up the reel of red thread in the boots simply accident , done goodness knows how . |
| 13 | It would dry up the flow of Japanese credit to all American borrowers , private or public . |
| 14 | Baglin set up the chance of national success after the most devastating result of the weekend — a 6 |
| 15 | Why do people on holiday suddenly start taking up the kind of violent exercise they would n't even contemplate normally ? ’ sighed Jim . |
| 16 | Except in a few cases , formal inspections will not have been frequent enough to build up the kind of collective experience that HMIs have . |
| 17 | Thick slabs of bacon sizzled on a pan that sat by the fire , and they mopped up the fat with grainy bread , washing it down with spring water . |
| 18 | If judges consistently award damages for a particular type of injury at the top of the range , then that type of injury may gradually move up the scale of relative seriousness . |
| 19 | In turn these open up the field to considerable latitude of local interpretation . |
| 20 | It was argued that it would be undesirable to open up the possibility of private prosecution , and that the sensitivity of the area was such that it was imperative that prosecution policy be consistent . |
| 21 | Those advocating power boards found this argument especially persuasive , since it opened up the possibility of continued cooperation between the two sides of the industry at regional level , and of the continued joint use of common services . |
| 22 | Secondly , to open up the possibility for modern society of a rational discourse , freed from artificial domination , in which participants share equally in the conversation . |
| 23 | The inching up the cliff of dignified respectability begins tomorrow at Lancaster Park , Christchurch . |
| 24 | The two bombs were attached to the hull of the Rainbow Warrior , berthed at Marsden Wharf , at around 8.30 p.m. and at about 9.30 p.m. a man wearing a red woollen hat was seen abandoning a Zodiac dinghy near the Outboard Boating Club in Hobson 's Bay and then climbing up the embankment to Tamaki Drive where he was picked up and driven off in a camper van . |
| 25 | Kelly was excellent at right back , as was Dorigo on the left : once in the first half he stepped in from the left to tidy up the ball from charging Ippo players , strolled over to the right , and set up a counter attack down the flank , all with great ease ; he looks great . |
| 26 | In the queue , she picked up the smell of long-term poverty . |
| 27 | The answer is simple — make energy efficiency a number one global priority and speed up the development of renewable energy technologies . |
| 28 | We all agreed on Giacometti , because the ‘ Naso ’ sums up the idea of potential space as a work of art , and that is the basic assumption of ‘ Documenta IX ’ . |
| 29 | A two-year research project has produced what is called the home bus system , a set of standards for wiring up the home with coaxial cable . |
| 30 | That is why Britain should base its efforts to cable up the country on optical fibre , rather than on an obsolescent technology |