Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] up [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Pain ( flying P3731 ) : ‘ This was a brawl with some 15 CR 42s in which the entire flight got mixed up some miles out to sea at about 18,000 feet between St. Paul 's Bay and Sliema . |
| 2 | In return , Sequoia has given up any ambitions it may have had in the telecommunications marketplace , but will sell the thing in competition with HP elsewhere . |
| 3 | and this is compounded by the fact that the executive branch has given up any attempt to control the military-industrial complex . |
| 4 | Teresa Moylan ( Mrs Clements ) has given up full time work because of her children . |
| 5 | This is the man who has conjured up fresh doubts about the validity of the so-called Dianagate tapes . |
| 6 | This is the man who has conjured up fresh doubts about the validity of the so-called Dianagate tapes . |
| 7 | Some 75 per cent of Perkins ' UK production is shipped overseas , and the company has picked up four Queen 's Awards for export over the past few years . |
| 8 | As expected ( UX No 422 ) , the Open Software Foundation has picked up new widget technology from Lotus Development Corp , IBM Corp and Digital Equipment Corp to enhance its Motif graphical user interface . |
| 9 | From his wording , it would appear he has picked up these rumours secondhand from somewhere . |
| 10 | AUSTRALIAN he-man Mel Gibson , best known for ‘ Mad Max ’ and ‘ Lethal Weapon ’ , has picked up kinder notices for his ‘ Hamlet ’ than perhaps he or anyone else expected . |
| 11 | So far the survey has picked up 20 galaxies ; it should eventually find several thousand . |
| 12 | Since then he has picked up 20 disqualifications and has served 12 jail sentences . |
| 13 | ADVANCED trenching equipment has speeded up this aspect of a project to such an extent , |
| 14 | Since then safety work has pushed up that capacity and when the ( New Zealand ) All Blacks play there in three weeks it will be helped to 21,000 by a temporary stand erected over the Tanner Bank wall on the outfield of the adjacent cricket field , adding 2,300 spectators who need not be counted in the official figure . |
| 15 | The college has built up strong links with local industry and this will be reflected on the board . |
| 16 | On top of that , other money from the fund was left untouched and has built up substantial interest . |
| 17 | ‘ The Institute has built up considerable expertise in the quality control and quality assurance areas both prior to , and since , accreditation by CNAA in September 1989 . |
| 18 | TOM KITE , winner of the Bob Hope Classic at La Quinta , California , with a record-breaking 35-under-par total of 325 for the five-round tournament , has moved up one place to ninth in the latest Sony world rankings . |
| 19 | Mark James has moved up 15 places to 38th following his victory in the Tenerife Open . |
| 20 | A beach clean-up along 300 miles of Texas shoreline has turned up 15,600 plastic six-pack rings in 3 hours . |
| 21 | Back in Russia , the find has stirred up royal fever — but not everyone is enjoying it . |
| 22 | But this revival will enchant still more when Sir Charles Mackerras has tidied up stage-pit ensemble , and refined some aspects of the orchestral sound . |
| 23 | Once a particular electron has soaked up enough energy from the X-rays for its release it begins to radiate from the parent atom ( Figure 3 ) . |
| 24 | The GCSE debacle has shown up serious shortcomings not only in our examination process but also in our whole education policy . |
| 25 | A recent visit to Japan , paid for by the Japanese government , has opened up major possibilities . |
| 26 | This has opened up new areas of employment for actuaries , frequently involving communication skills as well as technical expertise . |
| 27 | The reunification of Germany has opened up new opportunities for many in the East , including a group of East German teachers of English who are visiting Oxford this week . |
| 28 | Some recent work , however , particularly in attempting to historicise the insights of Freud , and to demonstrate the specificity of his categories ( that is , showing how they refer to a particular cultural milieu ) has opened up new possibilities . |
| 29 | Such studies tend to be impressionistic and are frequently questionable , but modern linguistics , by offering more exact and subtle methods of analysis , has opened up new possibilities for the study of sound-symbolism in literature . |
| 30 | According to the Nobel Committee which sits in Stockholm , Mr Gorbachov has opened up new possibilities for the World Community to solve its pressing problems . |