Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A powered digger to break up ground . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | 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 . , |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I hope I 've got some work coming up Tavistock and Devon . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This issue comes up time and again for example there is an equally divided community in Britain , a divided position on matters like abortion . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The investment financed by this borrowing stoked up demand for commodities , permitting sales to be maintained at higher and higher prices . |
| 18 | In contrast to this move to open up broadcasting to the free market , there is the desire to monitor and control output . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He has struggled on social security to bring up Louis with girlfriend Debbie Blount . |
| 21 | My hon. Friend conjured up images of people coming out of taxis and meeting friends . |
| 22 | But their presence in the First Division will mean that every Saturday thirty non-English players will be turning out in the top flight taking up places which should be filled by Englishmen . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | This shoot em' up game has very good graphics and supports sound blaster . |
| 25 | While all this was going on agents of Naggaroth were abroad throughout the Old World stirring up trouble . |
| 26 | Is this print picking up people who have n't had a price increase then ? |
| 27 | Repeat colonoscopies were performed every 6 months for the entire 2 year follow up period , and any metachronous adenomas that had occurred were removed . |
| 28 | Yet still it appears impossible to discover the ownership of shares held through a minor Swiss bank which were used to help a second division British company build up stakes in several third division British companies . |
| 29 | We encountered some problem lining up screw holes in the harddisk with holes in the mounting frame and settled for two fixings instead of the recommended three . |
| 30 | 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 . |