Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] up [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She believes some people will vote Labour to shake up the Conservatives and make them reconsider their policies . |
| 2 | This builds up the muscles which locate the knee joint , helping to stop it moving above and grinding up bits of cartilage . |
| 3 | ‘ If there were only six stetches in the field and eight ploughs working , the first baiter then put the second baiter and another to open up the furrows and lay the tops , so all the ploughs were employed . |
| 4 | Among other things , this opens up the multiculturalists and antiracists to the very charge of propaganda and indoctrination which they level at the textbooks , authors and teachers they are attempting to challenge . |
| 5 | ‘ No , but I doubt you 'd find too many takers here willing to give up the delights of the West for a Russian dacha . ’ |
| 6 | It would be wrong , in my judgment , to order under subsection ( 2 ) the repayment of the price of shares unless it were known that the investor was willing to give up the shares . |
| 7 | Proposals have been made to replace the outmoded apprenticeship system by a proper training course , but they have foundered because no one is willing to put up the funds . |
| 8 | This covered up the shoes completely , but left the border areas open to work on . |
| 9 | hanging out the window shouting abuse at one another coming up the corridors |
| 10 | When a local policeman told Sharon Rogers that , ‘ by the time you 're 16 you 're going to be pregnant , homeless and stuffed up with drugs ’ , she believed this summed up the attitudes of many of the police and social workers she encountered during her offending career . |
| 11 | This summed up the feelings behind the protest . |
| 12 | This set up an Examinations Council , GCE Board and CSE Board in Northern Ireland . |
| 13 | This blocks up the jets and air passages in the carb leading to the engine stopping . |
| 14 | As is indicated in the chapter on teaching in role , it 's possible to set up the pre-requisites through carefully chosen opening lines . |
| 15 | They look set to put up the shutters to defy Owen Coyle , Alan Lawrence and Jimmy Boyle so it threatens to be pretty dour stuff . |
| 16 | When pouring , it had been impossible to line up the bottles with the glasses , no matter how close she held the neck of a bottle to the rim of a glass . |
| 17 | Of course it 's not easy to keep up the smiles in public , as the couple showed in Seoul yesterday when they arrived for a five-day Korean visit . |
| 18 | On the adverse side , the field has become too small for comfort , and it is not easy to line up the binoculars on the target . |
| 19 | She could n't remember the names of the drinks they were ordering , and she found it nearly impossible to add up the prices of drinks for an entire table in her head . |
| 20 | But it is generally more helpful to give meals for slimmers in single portions and it is very easy to multiply up the quantities , of course . |
| 21 | These show up the lies of the society clearer . |
| 22 | Fortunately , most retailers will split packs for you if buying whole packs would be uneconomical , so it 's best either to count up the numbers you need from a scale plan of the area to be tiled , or else to use the ‘ number per square metre ’ figures given above . |
| 23 | Instead , countries such as the Czech Republic , Slovakia , Hungary and Poland , where conditions are more conducive to good business strategies , are likely to scoop up the funds on offer . |
| 24 | The fact that Black Fury had been too controversial and yet too muddled to scoop up the prizes did not mean that it was time for Warner Bros to stop being ‘ sociologically-minded ’ . |
| 25 | It may be useful to draw up the definitions clause after drafting the rest of the terms , to ensure that all words and phrases which require definition are included ; then , when checking the terms , the drafter should check the meaning of defined words and phrases each time they appear in the document to ensure that the definition is appropriate . |
| 26 | 4 Draw up the rules with the legal requirements in mind and make sure that everything is covered . |
| 27 | The feathers were all bristling up the backs of their heads , on the tiny muscular shins that protruded from the legs of their breeches . |
| 28 | What changes in the 1970s set up the forces , working through the world market and multinational corporation networks , to generate a new international division of labour ? |
| 29 | Endill found out later that mixing up the signposts was a favourite pastime of the more mischievous pupils . |
| 30 | Thanks to what Breeze had earned , they were able to rake up the fares — and now here they were , on their way to a remote Devonshire village with just enough money to keep them going for a fortnight or so . |