Example sentences of "in [verb] up the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | The government , indeed , had made careful preparations , both in conserving fuel stocks and protecting the power network with the aid of other European nations , and also in building up the co-ordinating powers of the police nationally to deal with mass picketing . |
2 | So I am encouraged in my perhaps natural naïveté , I am encouraged to be simpliste , by my knowledge of the value of complication in fogging up the real issues in politics . |
3 | Perhaps some forgiving souls might protest that former East German athletes had faced a particular difficulty in giving up the bad habits imposed on them by the success-seeking machine of the old Communist regime , and that it would be unfair virtually to close off their future just because they had n't yet properly learned another way of doing things . |
4 | Slovenia in Milk Race CYCLING : Yugoslavia , who last competed in the Milk Race 30 years ago , will be represented by the breakaway state of Slovenia , which has joined the Commonwealth of Independent States in taking up the last places in a record field of 18 teams . |
5 | — who are taking the lead in setting up the new Divisions — are now starting discussions , where necessary backed by targeted groups to take our thinking forward . |
6 | She has served as a student counsellor with the Education and Training Department and as deputy director of practice regulation she played a major role in setting up the new regulations for financial services business and audit . |
7 | The purpose of the visit was three-fold : to guide the CII in setting up the right systems for quality management training in India ; to organise a one-day workshop for the benefit of a group of senior managers on the theme of ‘ Total Quality Management : How to Make it Happen in India ’ ; to present two papers at the World Congress on Total Quality . |
8 | To Abbott and Hornsby were added the names of Captain Lawrence , with whom Wilson had been associated in the formation of the Certificated Officers ' Union , Maurice Darby , the originator of the first Glasgow branch who was alleged to have gone over to the Shipping Federation in 1890 , Robert Pleasance , former secretary of the Tower Hill branch who had been expelled from the union in the same year , and a Thomas Carey , an official of the NSFU discharged for unsatisfactory conduct in 1911 who , Wilson claimed , immediately became involved with the Federation and , while still in its pay , assisted Lewis in setting up the British Seafarers ' Union . |
9 | In summing up the wet-weather skills of the South Sea Islanders , American journalist Ed Hagerty put it better than anyone , ‘ It seems to rain for everyone except Fiji ’ . |