Example sentences of "[verb] up [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Christian Bible with its progression from a wholly imaginary Garden of Eden to an authentically historical Roman Empire by way of a geographically very mixed up Land of Egypt and Land of Canaan is prototypical of a species of origin saga which can be encountered in all parts of the world among all kinds of people . |
| 2 | Sir Leon Brittan , the EC Commissioner responsible for competition policy , had said on Aug. 30 that the Commission would consider opening up membership of the unified financial services market to members of the European Free Trade Association ( EFTA ) ; he stressed , however , the need for reciprocal liberalization in those countries ( Switzerland and most of Scandinavia imposing tight limits on the extent of foreign shareholdings in their domestic companies ) . |
| 3 | Interestingly , Cassoni was recruited because Bill Lowe , who headed up development of the original IBM personal computer , left to join Gulfstream . |
| 4 | And in ‘ Macbeth ’ , ‘ when Tarquin ‘ rapes ’ the crown , and the Boar climbs into Duncan 's slashed skin and stands up King of Scotland ’ , one must simply groan , because for all the tortuous extravagance of metaphor , and the twists and turns of myth intended to give it power like twisted elastic , one is not being told anything novel . |
| 5 | ‘ They call that botched up bit of hand-sewing a golem ? |
| 6 | Baghdad declared that its forces were mopping up west of Fish Lake , having ‘ purged ’ the lake of the first and second waves of Iranians to cross . |
| 7 | LAWS to tighten up control of strays take effect this week but anyone who expects to see the streets cleared of roaming dogs will be disappointed . |
| 8 | Erm and so far well I 'm certainly willing to confess that I took these away full of good intentions and have have so far carried around this torn up copy of the Greater London Green Party for months . |
| 9 | So we got behind So I said well we 'll tr I 'll try and get caught up sort of , in the new year you know , get them a bit . |
| 10 | THE 12 Community governments have speeded up implementation of rules to create their barrier-free market but are still far behind schedule , the Commission said yesterday . |
| 11 | THE 12 Community governments have speeded up implementation of rules to create their barrier-free market but are still far behind schedule , the Commission said yesterday . |
| 12 | He is also facing an inquiry over the taxpayer picking up part of his £24,000 bill to evict a self-styled sex therapist from his home and was embarrassed by revelations about his Access card . |
| 13 | Core programme activities have been focused on interpreting the existing datasets , with an emphasis on picking up evidence of underlying structural controls and increasing our three-dimensional understanding of the crust . |
| 14 | Conner is responding by ramping up production of its Filepro and Aegean Series of 3.5 ’ and of new tape drives developed by Archive . |
| 15 | Some sixty-five million years ago this seemingly endless sedate marine activity was abruptly halted when earth movements lifted up part of the sea-bed to form the continental land mass . |
| 16 | He 's not who 's gon na give up Queen of England anyway ? |
| 17 | The approved scheme will give up control of our only major asset — 66 Portland Place . |
| 18 | According to Soviet sources , however , the US side had softened its previous position that Najibullah would have to be removed from power before elections could be held , and was now considering a compromise under which he would remain President but would give up control of the military , the security police and the media to non-partisan bodies . |
| 19 | Geophysical work in the core programme has been focused on interpreting existing datasets , particularly so as to pick up evidence of underlying structural controls and increase our three dimensional understanding of the crust . |
| 20 | One advantage of a card file is that it is very easy to pick up handful of cards and flip through them in odd five minutes in order to memorise some new words . |
| 21 | Drake easily told by greatly elongated central tail feathers , 4 in. of total length , combined with striking pattern of dark head and throat and white breast and stripe up side of neck . |
| 22 | The dividend may be expressed as a fixed percentage of the nominal or paid up value of the shares , or may even extend to participation in any dividends declared over and above that fixed amount . |
| 23 | Yet if he has watched Eastern Europe closely he will have seen that , however the transition begins , be it by round table , coalition government or free election , once Communists give up part of their power they quickly end up losing it all . |
| 24 | My second is never give up hope of eventual restitution . |
| 25 | The supplying company could not keep up delivery of repaired gearboxes to match the rate at which they failed , and with low availability of their new fleet Provincial had to retain the DMUs it was supposed to replace for a couple or so more years . |
| 26 | Oh , do n't really know , they tend to go up sort of two |
| 27 | In the UK , GaAs-based computer chips are now being marketed , and UK manufacturers are stepping up production of GaAs materials . |
| 28 | Gulf oil states are stepping up production of a " green " petrol additive in an effort to meet the requirements of the US Clean Air Act , which demands higher levels of oxygen in petrol . |
| 29 | We and our daily rhythms can respond to bright light and an appropriate use of this may become part of our armoury for speeding up adjustment of the body clock after a time-zone transition . |
| 30 | These have given up part of their holdings to provide GSR with its shareholding . |