Example sentences of "[v-ing] up [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bond , 54 , the former head of a £400 million empire , spent three months on a prison farm near Perth before an Australian appeal court cleared him of concealing a £7 million fee for shoring up failed merchant bank Rothwells . |
| 2 | A firm looking to expand will not simply contemplate recruiting new partners or opening up new branch offices . |
| 3 | They will form a integral part of the city , opening up new pedestrian routes , while upgrading existing ones . |
| 4 | Using Britain as an example , Napoleon III and the economists who advised him believed that the introduction of free trade would help to strengthen the French economy , since only by opening up French industry to greater competition would it be galvanized into accepting new methods of production . |
| 5 | Things like moving documentaries to nine o'clock , opening up single play strands , and going three nights a week with Brookside , which is more obvious . |
| 6 | Western support for tearing up existing loan deals , then , held the key to Mexico 's success . |
| 7 | An important part of the preventive routine is keeping up good posture , whether standing , sitting or walking . |
| 8 | It is establishing and keeping up mutual understanding between an organisation and the people it wants to reach . |
| 9 | Keeping up permanent co-ordination between personality and outer appearance is as oppressive as never daring to appear in public without a set of fully matching clothes and accessories . |
| 10 | knocking up lion-coloured cliff tops |
| 11 | Through hard work by the local Historic Scotland works squad , cleaning paths and mopping up residual oil , it proved possible to open the monument for the season on 1 April as planned , with access to the entrances of the prehistoric buildings roped of for the time being . |
| 12 | Michael was walking up High Row with his brother David when he was attacked . |
| 13 | But nothing prepares you for four and a half hours climbing up crumbling ice . |
| 14 | yeah , they have difficulty then picking up new material |
| 15 | An idea I have found very useful for picking up unwanted food and rubbish from the bottom of a tank ( such as a bare bottom isolation tank etc. ) is a simple length of rigid tube about ¼″ dia and three or four inches longer than the tank depth . |
| 16 | I ca n't see the band picking up decent airplay for new single Inside Of Me , Inside Of You , as a mishmash of noise in the song is n't exactly daytime friendly material . |
| 17 | The algorithm is not continuously diverted from depth-first into breadth-first search simply by virtue of picking up additional cost , as is the shortfall method . |
| 18 | Automatic Cover — Previously this was provided without limit as to the period of time by which the Company must be notified but as we can no longer rely on surveyors picking up additional plant , it is now a condition of this cover that the Insured notifies the Company before expiry of the current period of insurance . |
| 19 | Others are students who seek work during vacations or at weekends and yet others are students on hotel and catering courses who are picking up practical experience . |
| 20 | Research is being conducted at King 's College , London to see how accurate the ulstrasound is at picking up excess fluid in the neck region , in conjunction with the triple test there may be a 95 pc accurate diagnosis . |
| 21 | What 's more , with so much emphasis placed upon cultivating a creative youth — schools and parents actively promoting music , local radio and TV picking up regional talent , the reasonable cost of good equipment and the ease with which quality demos and records can be made , plus the all-round encouragement young people receive in all recreational pursuits these days — means it was almost certainly harder to break out in those starchy , stifling times than it is now . |
| 22 | Cusick himself remained the unsung creator of the Daleks for many years , picking up little recognition for his work . |
| 23 | ‘ My dear , I must tell you , so amUsing ’ , one whispers to the other , ‘ Monsieur *** de *** , FAR from being happily married as everyone thought , apparently spends the ENTIRE time when he 's in London clad in very ODD lederhosen in some pizzeria opposite the Knightsbridge barracks picking up little leather boys . ’ |
| 24 | By Thursday the finding of the clothes was being linked with the Scapegoat ritual , giving the story an angle , and on Friday three reporters were working through the town 's pubs , picking up local colour and gossip . |
| 25 | Much of the impetus behind such thinking has come from dowsers who realized that they were not just picking up underground water but something else , which they called telluric force . |
| 26 | Once , the Harvard training officer allowed a dealer to visit a wealthy businessman who had expressed an interest in picking up Hard Rock Cafe shares , ( as he had contacts there ) but only if they could meet up . |
| 27 | Before and after his marriage , Nicholson could date happily without fear of a single solitary piece of salacious writing in any newspaper or magazine — ‘ complete anonymity in social exchange ’ was the way he described his situation — or , as a further succinct explanation , ‘ I was able to go around picking up stray pussy . ’ |
| 28 | He at least had the consolation of a third round loser 's cheque for £5,355 pounds almost doubling his prize money for the year and of picking up valuable ranking points . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , Swedish-based Norsys Technology AB is picking up full-scale distribution of Objectivity 's ODBMS in Scandinavia : the pair will also work together on some customer projects . |
| 30 | The erosion was anticipated because of Sparcstation 10 Model 41 shortages and the cost of ramping up new product production . |