Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] up a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has built up a solid reputation amongst user education practitioners in the USA and is now the undisputed national clearinghouse for that country . |
| 2 | British Aerospace has confirmed that it has built up a 1.7 per cent stake in the company . |
| 3 | Forte says it has lined up a dozen beta sites among Fortune 1000 accounts — it can not publicly identify yet . |
| 4 | It has set up a new division to do the job — its first venture into direct selling . |
| 5 | It has set up a joint venture with Hungary 's state-owned producer , which makes 40% of the country 's cigarettes . |
| 6 | THE BRITISH government has announced that it has set up a small stockpile of strategically important materials for use by industry . |
| 7 | Since the Bingham Report it has set up a special investigations unit and improved staff training . |
| 8 | It has not only failed in this , it has opened up a potential new division between private practice and employed lawyers . |
| 9 | It wants to set up a local-government commission to review the structure of local government across England . |
| 10 | Informix Software Inc has indicated that it plans to set up a wholly-owned Japanese subsidiary during 1993 , according to ComputerWorld Japan . |
| 11 | Perhaps , one is tempted to retort , much in the spirit of Mary Jane and ‘ lovely rice pudding again' , it helps to build up a life-long resistance to anything judged to be a ‘ classic ’ . |
| 12 | The company , founded by Mrs Cooper 's great grandfather Robert Richardson , soon began to specialise in clock making and became so popular it had to set up a separate factory at Robert Street . |
| 13 | Usually the two pilots who are on night duty sleep in the ambulance but the driver and medical orderly who also sleep in it had worked up a terrific ‘ fug ’ — ‘ Imshi ’ Mason and I felt we could not cope with the smell of unwashed feet , etc. , so we dragged the two stretchers out . ’ |
| 14 | The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ( EBRD ) announced on Sept. 3 that it had set up a short-term technical advice scheme for the Soviet Union . |
| 15 | On Nov. 18 Libya announced that it had set up a judicial inquiry to investigate the allegations . |
| 16 | It can take just as much fortitude to go it alone as it does to keep up a public front . |
| 17 | It proposes setting up a special forum to look at teenage sexual health in South Tees , headed by Dr Ian Holtby , consultant in public health medicine . |
| 18 | it 's come up a wee bit . |