Example sentences of "[verb] up a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | A woman who found £40 on a bank floor has won a three-year battle to have it donated to a baby unit — and the bank has stumped up an extra £10 . |
2 | They were able to drum up a great deal of press and radio material on the sorry plight of British beer . |
3 | When he heard of his army 's defeat he proclaimed a huge mushroom feast and ordered his shamans to brew up a fresh batch of Mad Cap fungus liquor for the Fanatics . |
4 | Rock Around The Clock are showing some recession-defying ability by opening up a new store in Crouch End , London . |
5 | A mass of mail when I got back here — replies saying NO for example for the part time post of editor of the Episcopal Church paper up here and a NO from a firm opening up a new range of discount grocery stores . |
6 | The only disappointment was that after opening up a 50-point lead at the beginning of August , they failed to win any of the next four matches . |
7 | These nine examples drawn from a vast literature illustrate many of the key issues of innovation : the importance of observant people , the value of experience , the linking of different technologies to turn failure into success , the need for perseverance , the contribution of group problem solving techniques , the potential for opening up a wide range of opportunities and for changing , even destroying , existing organizational and market structures . |
8 | What needs to be considered when opening up a blocked off flue ? |
9 | The whole of Havant 's operation has been spun off as a separate business , so Wilkie has to find outside customers for the plant 's mix of personal computer and mid-range disk drives ; integrated disk subsystems and ‘ flexible circuitry ’ expertise ( those plastic straps bearing solder tracks found when opening up a personal computer or disk drive ) . |
10 | ‘ But we have got to spend considerably more effort on opening up a two-way dialogue . |
11 | It is also opening up a rare advance in the ancient art of making metal alloys . |
12 | The resulting product will enable HP 3000 users to run Progess-based applications unchanged on top of the AllBase/SQL relational database system , opening up a claimed base of thousands of applications from Progress Software 's 2,000-plus Software Partners . |
13 | Fontenoy too was designed to be a watershed — washing away the detritus of the past , opening up a clear future . |
14 | Mark Breland took less than four rounds to come through the third defence of his WBC welterweight title yesterday in Tokyo , opening up a bad cut above the right eye of his Japanese challenger , Fujio Ozaki . |
15 | Is he just opening up a bad |
16 | Referring to it as an artificial " pampered velveteen system " , the union journal was scathing about its " pretentions " : The small office in Edinburgh called the Caledonian Press … was opened a year ago , under the patronage of many of the nobility and members of the learned professions : yet with all its boasting about promoting the employment of women … and opening up a fresh field … to the " surplus female population " … it actually employs fewer women than any simple respectable milliner , of whose philanthropy the world takes little note . |
17 | Most people go just that little bit too far , opening up a blessed margin of excess along which our wounded egos can scuttle to safety . |
18 | The features cover everything from the environment to business , from shutting down a nuclear power station , to opening up a red-hot Mexican restaurant . |
19 | It was this — the politics of culture — that implicitly governed the Channel 4 debate , opening up a whole spectrum of discussion widely at variance with the concerns dominating White ( Western European and American ) feminist film theory . |
20 | Here Barnett is opening up a whole store of perceptions , aims , and criticisms which marked out important features of the class relationship in the period ( and which were also relevant to age relations ) , such as the alleged pauperization of self-respect among the poor ; their grasping of excitement ; and the superiority of middle-class culture which made contact between the classes so crucial . |
21 | You may find yourself opening up a whole new world of exciting foreign contacts which could , eventually , lead to some charming holidays . |
22 | You 're opening up a whole new can of beans as to why he married this young kind of Lolita-ish girl . |
23 | At a secondhand shop they bought him a pair of rather tight jeans and also acquired a metal detector , opening up a whole range of possibilities . |
24 | In fact er just before I retired they were saying , you know , my job 's obsolete and that , and then and says oh we 're opening up a big depot in Japan . |
25 | Orders for the HP 9000 multi-user Unix systems grew more than 40% during 1992 and although revenue for the HP 3000 declined , unit shipments of these systems increased about 20% for the year — striking given the move away from proprietary systems , but then the company is opening up an enormous Open bolt hole for HP 3000 users . |
26 | The two boats to take up the lead were Barthelsson and Strandman who sailed right away from the fleet , opening up an enormous lead . |
27 | And bizarrely , there 's no function for opening up an empty budget planner ; you have to save the example planner under a different name and delete all the data from it . |
28 | Her sheer emotional and physical energy nevertheless took its physical toll , and at various times in her life she abused alcohol and drugs as well as notching up a significant number of car accidents of varying degrees of seriousness . |
29 | Whitney joined a select group comprising The Beatles , Queen , Elvis Presley , Cliff Richard and Band Aid in notching up a double success . |
30 | She would have rustled up a little casserole or coq au vin while he laid the table beautifully . |