Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [verb] up [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had a folding canoe ( foldboat ) and limpet mines for blowing up any shipping that was in the harbour . |
| 2 | One study , based on sixty-six Third World firms ( and the evidence from other studies ) , found three main reasons for setting up joint ventures : host-government pressure , the need for the partner 's skills and the need for other attributes or assets . |
| 3 | Substantial reasons for setting up this service are absent from the Department of Health 's letter announcing it , which refers to ‘ anecdotal evidence ’ and says that ‘ experience suggests that many people would prefer to attend a clinic separate from other services . ’ |
| 4 | The very freedom which marks the period of childhood gives unrivalled opportunity for picking up all sorts of information about the environment ; the child is not handicapped by attending school and listening to formal instruction which is for the most part unrelated to his interests and needs . |
| 5 | It was the perfect excuse for ringing up complete strangers and asking all sort of personal questions . |
| 6 | IT was all smiles as director of human resources George Stonier said thank you to his secretary Val Inskip for clocking up 25 years ' service with the Wedgwood Group . |
| 7 | Award for serving up Future Cooks |
| 8 | Western support for tearing up existing loan deals , then , held the key to Mexico 's success . |
| 9 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what meetings he has had with hon. Members on each of the proposals for setting up national health service trusts . |
| 10 | There have been no formal meetings with hon. Members on proposals for setting up national health service trusts . |
| 11 | Last week , the Liberal Democrats published proposals for breaking up British Telecom into a number of components to provide effective and proper competition , and create regional corporate headquarters of benefit to our regions , which find that massive monopolies concentrate their headquarters elsewhere in the country — by definition , in one place . |
| 12 | New Yorkers have always shown a greater genius for putting up new buildings than for repairing old ones . |
| 13 | On March 13 it was announced that a human rights unit had been created within in the Foreign , Justice and Interior Ministries " with responsibility for following up international organizations ' activities in the sphere of human rights " ; this followed a report released by Amnesty International on March 3 , which had alleged the routine use of torture . |
| 14 | The benefits for the local inspector are that by their greater number ( compared with HMIs — see Pearce , 1982 ) they can become more familiar with the schools , and by virtue of their advisory role they will have some responsibility for following up any findings of an inspection — whether it be formal or informal . |
| 15 | A SCHOOLBOY computer hacker who caused worldwide chaos was banned from using the phone by his mum after running up enormous bills , a jury heard today . |
| 16 | Film reviewers have a simple rule for sizing up new movies : ‘ If nothing happens in the first ten minutes , ’ they say , ‘ nothing 's going to happen . ’ |
| 17 | The Lithuanian government has already leased one 10-year-old Boeing 737 from GPA , and many western airlines are exploring the opportunities for setting up joint ventures using Western aircraft . |
| 18 | You may notice during the beginning of Stage I that you experience some withdrawal symptoms as a direct result of giving up certain foods and drinks that you usually consume . |
| 19 | But before I try to answer these questions , let me remind you once again that there are vast areas of the globe , where ethnic politics , however embittered , are not nationalist , sometimes because the idea of an ethnically homogeneous population has been abandoned at some time in the past , or never existed — as in the US — or because the programme of setting up separate territorial , ethnic-linguistic states is both irrelevant and impractical . |
| 20 | The practice of locking up young people in remand prisons should end immediately , according to an independent inquiry into four suicides at Feltham prison , Middlesex . |
| 21 | What he did say was that Rabbit has no intention of setting up wholly-owned subsidiaries in any country , because of its commitment now to its previously neglected distribution partners . |
| 22 | Nigel had absolutely no intention of giving up any of his rights , and thus an examination of social security and tax together was impossible . |
| 23 | ‘ One advantage is that it can be used indoors at the bigger exhibition centres , thus saving the time and expense of setting up individual exhibitions . ’ |
| 24 | It would be a foolish and expensive form of self-indulgence to pay for a course of treatment just for the pleasure of making up fancy tales about previous incarnations . |
| 25 | However , Chris Patten , the Secretary of State for the Environment , said the proposals for passing unforeseen costs on to consumers were well-known and accused Dr Cunningham of whipping up unjustified concern . |
| 26 | During the past 10 months of follow up this patient , who had bled on 11 occasions over the previous six months , has not required further admission with recurrent haemorrhage . |
| 27 | These , in turn , had derived from an experiment in wiring up 18 homes in Milton Keynes — hardly a representative scheme . |
| 28 | 6.7 Practical considerations in setting up direct files |
| 29 | There is a dilemma in building up modular degrees , whether undergraduate or postgraduate , on a discrete unit basis where the studies should be integrative across subjects . |
| 30 | Perhaps the key figure in opening up that debate , and reviving the issue of the franchise , was John Bright , at least before Gladstone 's conversion to the cause . |