Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For even greater value you may join a COSMOS FUNBREAK holiday from any of over 90 FREELINK regional pick up points throughout England and all Wales — again at no extra cost to you ! |
| 2 | He never darkened its doors , but he thought it was the proper place for weddings and christenings and funerals , and he was always prepared to rig up lights for the annual parish nativity play , with a dimming spotlight to beam sentimentally on the Virgin Mary . |
| 3 | Although it sounds quite funny picking up children and carrying them can be tricky when you can hardly walk . |
| 4 | Where necessary they were also prepared to set up enterprise works committees with employees ' representatives , whilst at the same time strongly opposing external industrial or national unions . |
| 5 | Be nosey , and always be prepared to pick up tips from other people . |
| 6 | It is n't in addition to the pension you 're getting , you have to be willing to give up part of your own pension in advance . |
| 7 | Leaders turned out not to be willing to give up sovereignty over ‘ low-level ’ political issues ; nor , when they did , were they thereby more inclined to integrate in ‘ high-level ’ politics . |
| 8 | I think , therefore we are extremely fortunate , that so many people of distinction and talent are willing to give up time to serve on the Executive of the N C V O to work with the honourary officers and the Director and her team , to ensure that N C V O maintain such a central role in watching over our interests and in promoting the concerns of the people of this country , that we are all so active about . |
| 9 | Finding someone willing to give up time just to listen seems to be a problem for many people . |
| 10 | Parties to the English sea waybill are willing to give up transferability in exchange for an extra measure of security , especially against fraudulent issuances . |
| 11 | ‘ Are you so afraid of being wrong that you 're prepared to put up warning notices for those involved ? ’ |
| 12 | Will he now reconsider his advice that local initiative will solve all these problems , given that he has undermined local initiative in the example quoted earlier about people who have been willing to put up £17 million of locally raised money for a project which was undermined by the Welsh Office ? |
| 13 | Borrowers have to show , in confidence , why they need the loan , and that they are able and willing to keep up payments . |
| 14 | This has meant heavy advertising expenditures , and the concurrent merchandising activities at point-of-sale have been necessary to ensure that the goods are promoted in-store to back up advertising . |
| 15 | Students from countries within the European Community are free to take up employment during vacations but unemployment is high in the United Kingdom and there are few jobs vacant . |
| 16 | Outcome has been assessed clinically and by ultrasound scanning in 92 patients with a median follow up period of 14 months ( six to 37 months ) . |
| 17 | He said that the new ‘ learning for work scheme ’ — intended to provide opportunities for the unemployed to pursue vocationally relevant full-time courses of education , with fees paid and an allowance equivalent to their benefit entitlement for up to a year — gave another opportunity for the longer-term unemployed to take up training opportunities and thus to increase their chances of finding employment . |
| 18 | The result of these rules of practice was that the English set up colonies only in places where it was relatively easy to do so , at first because the places they went to were thinly populated , then because political disintegration in India enabled them to advance there , and because in the last phase of imperial expansion they had the sort of technological superiority needed for bringing most African rulers under their control . |
| 19 | The following year Universal closed up shop and MGM shuttered its Borehamwood Studios , disgracefully leaving Fred Zinneman to look after the bills for a cancelled production of André Malraux 's Man 's Fate . |
| 20 | Feel free to make up answers , perhaps using a family situation you are familiar with . |
| 21 | Dig over and weed vacant ground set aside for vegetables , being careful to dig up roots of perennial weeds , such as dock . |
| 22 | The teacher must also be prepared to follow up lines of enquiry started by the pupils . |
| 23 | They thought that it might be excusable to exploit situations to promote the individual MP 's career within his own party or to look after constituency interests , but it was quite inexcusable to open up opportunities for the Opposition to criticize the government . |
| 24 | Officers from Love and Co. were due to pick up goods belonging to Jim Sneddon and his wife in preparation for a warrant sale following the couple 's refusal to pay the tax . |
| 25 | Those pupils whose absence was , at the time of completion of the survey returns , still unauthorised made up 11% ( June ) and 7% ( November ) of the total of pupils surveyed . |
| 26 | Many councillors take the view that it is easy to drum up names for a petition although you may have more impact if , say , the petition is restricted to immediate neighbours of the development . |
| 27 | It is also dangerous to pick up needles or syringes that you see lying around . |
| 28 | It is , however , still very easy to pick up tufa from the latter on the coast of East Africa , to which it took 6 months to float across the Indian Ocean . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The policy as now presented to the panel for consideration in the County Council 's view therefore represents and provides a clear strategic statement covering the processes involved in changing the wide open countryside and beyond rural settlements and such areas identified for development purposes within those settlements could maybe identified in the appropriate drawn up plans . |