Example sentences of "[verb] up [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 31 | A working party is to be formed to draw up opposition to the plan , for presentation to the Welsh Office . |
| 32 | Here we are , dyke and dybbuk , penned up knee to knee with a gallery of blood relations . |
| 33 | They also agreed that the EC should step up aid to projects to improve social and economic conditions for victims of apartheid . |
| 34 | It is not difficult to think of other examples — the man who takes up golf to be seen with the ‘ right sort of people ’ the competitor more interested in the prize than the process of winning it ; the senior common-room member who can not converse without showing off . |
| 35 | Successful applicants will be able to build up entitlement to normal benefits such as concessionary mortgages . |
| 36 | David Nicholas , Deal 's marketing director , says the company will be producing gears by the end of the year and plans to build up production to ½ million units a year within two years . |
| 37 | ‘ It caused some anxious moments as we worked out how to keep up supply to this project approximately 1,200 kilometres from our manufacturing centre in Rabaul , ’ said PNG general manager . |
| 38 | The one thing that these , and other applications have in common , is a measurement of the Hall effect , in which , in certain circumstances , a voltage is set up perpendicular to a magnetic field and a current passing through a material . |
| 39 | But he blew his chances when he said that giving up sovereignty to the European Commission was like giving in to Hitler . |
| 40 | ‘ I 'm content to go into the army , and I 'm definitely against giving up territory to the Arabs . ’ |
| 41 | ‘ Go up West to Mickey 's and tell him what's.happened . |
| 42 | Blend orange juice and wine , making up volume to 225 ml with water . |
| 43 | In consequence of the agreement , Mr. Mahmoud gave up possession to the landlord . |
| 44 | Marshall does n't quite know what to do with Geena Davis ' study in female renunciation as star player Dottie , a woman who gives up baseball to be a good wife . |
| 45 | So the peregrine was taken up country to a falconry and raptor breeding centre . |
| 46 | The first extensive studies of Romano-British pottery were by Thomas May , who died on 28 October , 1931 at Stratford-upon-Avon , where he had taken up residence to be able to work on the nearby site at Tiddington , ( Fieldhouse , May and Wellstood , 1931 ) . |
| 47 | In the latter — the steppe and woodlands inhabited by Tatars , Altaians , Kirgiz , Buryats and Mongols — the Russians had to wage war against formidable enemies who were not only capable of putting up resistance to incursions into their territories , but also able to obtain support from the larger communities of Turkic-Mongol peoples to whom they were related . |
| 48 | About two minutes later Danny 's truck , with us following close behind , turned a corner and there was the slip road leading to the Motorway — only nothing was ever going to get far down that road for there were the four big trucks in Big Ben 's convoy lined up wall to wall across the road facing us . |
| 49 | Follow up work to the study of original sources might include elements of reconstruction or re-creation , often drawing on and synthesising information from a range of sources . |
| 50 | Arrangements should be made during this call for any follow up call to be made by MAS ( not by the target ) to reduce the risk of any further call either being deemed a ‘ cold ’ call or harassment . |
| 51 | But , whatever type of regime is decided upon , locking up 12- to 15-year-olds on the scale likely to result from the Government 's present proposals is an excessive reaction . |
| 52 | We will start in our first parliamentary session with a Freedom of Information Act which will open up government to the people . |
| 53 | ‘ Well , because we have to make up time to Denver , and we ca n't do that with stuff like that in the car . |
| 54 | The sensor measures alkalinity and when the level falls below a pre-set value it activates a pump that delivers product from a bulk container to the tank in sufficient quantity to make up solution to the desired strength . |
| 55 | What many fear is that , despite negotiated settlements ’ being fashionable in other parts of the world , the US will be more than happy to leave El Salvador to Arena , freeing it to step up aid to the Nicaraguan contras and removing , once and for all , any chance of success for the peace plan being negotiated by the five Central American presidents , which has never been supported by the US . |
| 56 | The definition of " new tenant or occupier " is discussed in Chief Constable of Tayside v. Angus District Licensing Board , 1980 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 31 where it is held that " new " refers to both tenant and occupier and that at 32 " we are dealing with the removal of the licensee , when he yields up possession to a new tenant or a new occupier/occupant " . |
| 57 | … how much soever Arbitrary Power may be dislik 'd on a Throne , Not Milton himself wou 'd cry up Liberty to poor Female Slaves , or plead for the Lawfulness of Resisting a Private Tyranny . |
| 58 | Finally , the Yugoslav government held up payment to the construction enterprises for several more months , and then paid them in dinars at the current rate of exchange , which was considerably worse than the rate applicable at the time when payment was originally due . |
| 59 | Use gentle movements upwards from toes , concentrating on the ankle and working up leg to knee . |