Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday police used teargas to break up protestors blocking aid lorries near Zenesa . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A powered digger to break up ground . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In contrast to this move to open up broadcasting to the free market , there is the desire to monitor and control output . |
| 12 | He has struggled on social security to bring up Louis with girlfriend Debbie Blount . |
| 13 | A third route could be to permit vertical relationships and restraints between domestic producers , or domestic producers and distributors , which made it difficult either for a foreign firm to set up production and gain essential supplies , or for a foreign firm to get access to existing distribution networks . |
| 14 | This ability to summon up images , both photographic and diagrammatic , and explanatory texts within a matter of seconds is quite hypnotic , and very much in line with the television mind-set of the computer generation . |
| 15 | Further investment is needed to allow the consortium to open another coalface to speed up production . |
| 16 | Congress ( I ) continued at this stage to prop up Chandra Shekhar 's fragile minority Janata Dal ( S ) government but extracted a number of major concessions for its support . |
| 17 | From 1981 to 1985 , US aid to El Salvador totalled US$1.7 billion , of which some 30 per cent was direct military aid ; 44.1 per cent was economic assistance to prop up El Salvador 's ailing economy , hard hit by the war ; 10.5 per cent was food aid ; and only 15.4 per cent went to development and governmental reform . |
| 18 | Thomson-CSF SA says its Syseca unit won a contract worth several million dollars to provide a turnkey system to send messages between 29 European civil aviation agencies : the contract , awarded by Eurocontrol , which oversees air traffic control across Europe , calls for installing the system by end-1993 , and the contract is part of a vast programme to link up Europe 's air traffic control systems — the present fragmentation is one of the key causes of the air travel delays ; the Central Flow Management Unit system will be based on Syseca 's Aermac product , and will collect flight plans from the World Civil Aviation Network , the SITA airline network SITA and from air traffic control centres ; it will be installed at two central sites , at Haren , Belgium and Bretigny-sur-Orge , France , using Stratus Computer Inc fault-tolerant systems connected via an X25 packet-switched network . |
| 19 | But the giant duo strode imperiously through the mud during the second half to set up Saints ' two match-clinching tries . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's good practice , ’ Nutty panted , in a dying effort to keep up morale . |
| 21 | The SSI 's practice guide on the welfare of children in boarding schools advised : ‘ There is no perfect way to bring up children and care must be taken to avoid value judgements and stereotyping . ’ |
| 22 | Now he has called on British Rail for a second time to step up safety and end the easy access to the East Coast main line . |
| 23 | In spite of his expressed desire to soak up atmosphere , he did not feel at home there . |
| 24 | Deery got to the bye-line with a fine run to set up Ian Adams for Coleraine 's second , but again the home side regained their two goal cushion when Gilmore chipped into the net . |
| 25 | Environmentalists and local politicians this wee k welcomed an ambitious initiative to clean up Darlington . |
| 26 | He instructed his panic-stricken , guilt-ridden wife to pack up Kemp 's clothes in a suitcase , and to clean up the bloody mess that must have been left on the carpet , and probably on the sheets . |
| 27 | It took them a little while to pluck up courage to go along and when they did , they chose the Norfolk Gliding Club at Longstratton near Norwich . |
| 28 | Just three of the qualities I possess that will be invaluable when I get the inevitable call to take up Football League management . |
| 29 | A demonstration by around 20,000 people on Oct. 26 prompted the Slovak government to step up security in Bratislava . |
| 30 | Make a conscious effort to speed up activity in this way . |