Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday police used teargas to break up protestors blocking aid lorries near Zenesa . |
| 2 | Such blindness distorts truth ; such political irresponsibility stores up trouble for the future . |
| 3 | The notion of ‘ policy ’ is insufficiently precise to indicate the role of members , for example in the consideration of the scope and content of cost-improvement programmes to free up resources for developments and unfunded elements of pay awards . |
| 4 | Their belief in ‘ maximum self-reliance ’ with regional parliaments retaining ‘ most legislative powers ’ did not prevent the British manifesto from declaring that a Green government would use the European courts to speed up UK compliance with EC environmental directives . |
| 5 | THE GOVERNMENT is ready to abandon its controversial plans to set up registers of land which may be contaminated . |
| 6 | Many who moved were glad to do so and the economy as a whole has benefited from the release of agricultural labour to take up employment in the expanding manufacturing and service sectors . |
| 7 | Well last Friday a man with a white wig , Lord Justice McCowan used five even more devastating words to sum up life in The Sun : ‘ Sensational , inaccurate and misleading coverage . ’ |
| 8 | On Aug. 31 and Sept. 6 the authorities , reportedly anxious about the imminent visit of the Pope [ see below ] , used force to break up rallies called jointly by four opposition parties , whose purpose was to press demands for a national conference to decide rules for multiparty elections . |
| 9 | Even more did this apply to economic power — witness the failure of repeated attempts to build up copartnership or anything resembling profit-sharing in industry . |
| 10 | 6 October : The Princess Margaret , Countess of Snowdon this afternoon visited Up Hatherley , Cheltenham , and was received on arrival at Staverton Airport by Her Majesty 's Lord-Lieutenant for Gloucestershire ( Colonel Martin Gibbs ) . |
| 11 | Knitters who have machines with a mirror image facility could use this technique to match up patterns at the centre , but remember that you lose the two centre stitches plus the one on each side which goes under the band — it would never do to have two ducks without heads facing one another , would it ! |
| 12 | Tom has to get back tomorrow , so Odd-Knut decides to circle the peak ahead and rejoin our outward trail to pick up Nat 's sledge on the way back . |
| 13 | Izetbegovic appealed to Turkey and the EC for support in resisting Serbian plans to divide up Bosnia-Hercegovina between Serbia and Croatia with a Moslem buffer state between the two , a proposal in which Tudjman had also expressed interest . |
| 14 | Not only do they tolerate the fast-food shops serving up nutriment that top breeders would n't recommend for Fido , they go as far as purchasing two expensive weeks in a gruesome timeshare apartment , and sit smoking all day on a balcony overlooking the A9 . |
| 15 | A powered digger to break up ground . |
| 16 | If words such as scio and non dubito in the second half of the second century were not regarded as showing clear intention to set up trusts , might they have been after these cases ? |
| 17 | At 1500 hours a dozen light aircraft swept up Faetten Fjord in line astern , at about 600 ‘ ft ‘ to 1,000 ‘ ft ‘ , with their landing lights blazing against the dull sky . |
| 18 | Similarly a few LEAs stepped up pressure on schools to implement anti-sexist policies , asking for school policies within a particular time limit ( e.g. Brent , ILEA ) pressuring heads to implement change ; organizing inservice courses ( Humberside , Brent ) replacing text books and appointing Advisers/Inspectors . |
| 19 | A major longitudinal study followed up residents in 175 homes for elderly people and found no evidence of continuing upward trends in overall levels of dependency ( Booth et al . , |
| 20 | Detailed data takes up space so it can not be presented in a volume of this scale , yet without it much of the theorizing of social anthropologists seems trivial and obvious or merely boastful . |
| 21 | The French government has told French industry to set up Eco Emballage , a recycling organisation which gives members the right to use a green dot on their packaging in exchange for paying a levy that is being spent on setting up recycling schemes . |
| 22 | I hope I 've got some work coming up Tavistock and Devon . |
| 23 | Local education authorities in Northern Ireland were required by this Act to set up management committees for further education institutions , with some degree of autonomy , instead of managing them directly . |
| 24 | Tax encouragements to foreign companies setting up UK headquarters . |
| 25 | This issue comes up time and again for example there is an equally divided community in Britain , a divided position on matters like abortion . |
| 26 | Microphones of this type pick up sound which is mainly from sources within the picture area , and the nuisance of unwanted noises-off is much reduced . |
| 27 | Back in London , deserting his native Liverpool which he compared unfavourably to Manchester , he was advised by William Leach at the British Museum to take up lithography . |
| 28 | The investment financed by this borrowing stoked up demand for commodities , permitting sales to be maintained at higher and higher prices . |
| 29 | In contrast to this move to open up broadcasting to the free market , there is the desire to monitor and control output . |
| 30 | Talking at all above the screech of the wind was difficult and he had to make his explanation short : ‘ Mariana , the men running this coup set up roadblocks this morning to pick up any of the Government trying to get into Belpan City . |