Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] [verb] up " in BNC.

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1 The availability of in vitro fertilization opens up the further possibility that the proembryo which is eventually implanted need not originate from an egg produced by the woman herself .
2 On a G7 scorecard drawn up by a coalition of environmental groups , Britain came bottom on efforts to tackle pollution and global warming .
3 The Mical Data 486SX has a 25Mhz chip spiced up to run at 40MHz .
4 He does n't see us as a part of a crowd , he does n't see us as a number on a computer , he does n't see us as numbers on a bank account , or in some other organizational er er er computer set up or whatever it is , he does n't just see us as that he sees us as individuals .
5 The only thing , other thing is we 've been you know debating about the er stuff to make up the wax which we 'll have to go to Morrells by all , and get it sent here
6 Boer war veteran , great war veteran and er air finished up an air-warden in the last war .
7 And then in the night when it was dark , the old keeper used to come there , open the top of the lid and shut the door , because she was in a she was in a loft do you see , above the kennels , with er an iron er ladder going up and down you see , and then shut the door on her there do you see and she could get in and out then from the chest .
8 And then , after a time , we er had the er electricity took up the yard and into the shop and then we was able to buy a little machine you know what I mean and it went from there .
9 We put on a display of marching or and er weaponry we 'd got in King George 's playing fields and er talk about the weapons er er er br brings to mind we had a , a weapon that was a anti-tank weapon and it was a Robin Robinson Heath er contraption made up of a tube , cast iron tube on a three legged tripod with er a hinge ring on the one end which had a recess for a cap and a trigger to , to fire this cap .
10 In general biological activity decr decreases with , with increase in depth so you see er respiration using up this material .
11 The membrane vesicles were added to the assay buffer containing 20mM HEPES/arginine , pH7.4 , 5% sucrose , 0.5mMDTT , 30μM neutral red , 1μM trifluoromethoxycarbonylcyanide phenylhydrazone and with or without 400nM calmodulin to make up a total volume of 2ml and a concentration of 0.5mg protein per ml .
12 When Checkland 's contract came up for renewal , it was renewed only for a token year .
13 In the meantime , yesterday 's contract sets up EDS as KF 's partner in managing the Stockholm-based company 's computer systems , making it more of a ‘ cosourcing ’ than an ‘ outsourcing ’ contract , Carroll said .
14 A recent study by Bradford De Long of Harvard University concluded that the presence of a Morgan partner on a company 's board added up to 30% to a share 's value .
15 Gemayel 's foot tapped up and down as he warmed to his subject , his large oak desk shaking slightly with the vibration .
16 Nestle 's milk conjures up a lot of memories for me .
17 It will be intriguing to see how Brecht 's play stands up at a time when Communism is loosening its ideological hold .
18 The most important element of the cessation process seems to be the smoker 's decision to give up , with the aid or method being of secondary importance .
19 They were deeply concerned about Prince Charles 's decision to give up shooting as well as his inclination towards vegetarianism .
20 At a cost of £10 million a year , the additional funding is nearly double the NCC 's annual budget prior to last year 's decision to split up the organization .
21 Garrett 's decision to set up in the business of metal detector manufacture was a brave one for there were in his immediate locale several rival ‘ cottage industries ’ vying to capture a share of the young and burgeoning market .
22 BSB Dorland 's grip on the £28m ( Media Register ) Rover account is threatened following Rover 's decision to set up an in-house marketing consultancy .
23 Churchill 's decision to set up S Branch and his support for the economists within the Cabinet Office stemmed from an enduring distrust of official advice on economic policy which can be dated back to his unhappy time at the Treasury in 1924–29 , particularly his much criticised decision , taken on official advice , to return to the gold standard in 1925 .
24 Washington 's fear of devaluation is reflected in Johnson 's decision to set up a Special Study Group in the middle of 1965 to examine the implications of the weakness of sterling for the dollar and the Bretton Woods international monetary system .
25 When the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Indochina met on 23 November 1946 and heard d'Argenlieu 's report it resulted in what Devillers affirms was obviously the government 's decision to face up to every infringement of the Franco — Vietminh agreement , if necessary by force .
26 ‘ No wonder the lassie 's shirt flew up her back . ’
27 And thirdly increasing emphasis , not on the socialist politics of the Communist Party in the nineteen twenties , but on the development of a nationalist ideology which could appeal to all classes in Chinese society who were interested in getting the Japanese out and who were angered by the Kuomintang government 's inability to stand up to the Japanese .
28 Frank 's inability to stand up for himself was brought home to us by Mazzin 's relationship with him .
29 And this is how Freud explains Wilson 's inability to stand up to the other men , like Woodrow , like Cle Clements or Lloyd George , who were rather aggressive , and er , were , were kind of pushing all the time , what they could out of the , out of the peace settlement , and what , er the book shows , is that Woodrow Wilson would have confrontations with them and say a lot of fine words , and then the next day , he would , he would give it all away , as it were , he would , he would be ill or he 'll backtrack , or when the actual agreements came to be signed , he , he would n't do what he said he would , er , wh what he did .
30 Below in the valley the yellow lights of Hafpor 's truck jiggled up and down with his frantic efforts to ease it through the snow .
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