Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had more egalitarian holdings , less interest by speculators ( because of its remoteness ) and , as the government authority tended to be weak , the settlers were more self-sufficient in setting up schools and cutting tracks and so forth ; moreover , it was less costly for central government . |
| 2 | And , despite the increased political tension in South Africa in recent months , RWC officers said they were not interested in setting up contingency plans . |
| 3 | Maybe the powers that be have been only interested in cleaning up opponents . |
| 4 | The industry is also interested in signing up people in Brazil to write programs ( Brazil boasts a large number of Japanese emigres ) . |
| 5 | Pople has been instrumental in setting up computer programs like Polatom , Hondo and Gaussian and giving access to computer graphical methods for representing simple molecules . |
| 6 | They are prone to picking up camcorder machine and handling noise and are not very good at recording speech if the source is more than a metre or so away from the camera . |
| 7 | Portable and hardy it was , but slow and prone to blowing up telephone exchanges , because it was American and not approved for use in the UK . |
| 8 | Whereas the right of establishment entitles a company incorporated in one member state to set up agencies , branches and subsidiaries , without discrimination on grounds of nationality , in the territory of another , the purpose of the freedom to provide services is to enable a company established in one member state to do business in the territory of another without setting up agencies , branches or subsidiaries , and indeed without complying with all the rules and regulations of the second state , as explained below . |
| 9 | But this article was written in a different era : a time before doorstepping and telephoto journalism had really got into its stride ; a more innocent age when the phrase ‘ royal scoop ’ indicated the saccharine nursery revelations of a former nanny , and people who ‘ knew ’ were n't averse to ringing up William Hickey or Dempster . |
| 10 | His occupation , which was that of picking up men in a neighbouring public house , with which he had a working arrangement , during the evening hours , and bringing them back to the boat , was not particularly profitable . |
| 11 | First of all the company is very serious about taking up references . |
| 12 | On the opposite side to the door and window was the staircase , and two doors ; one of which ( the nearest to the fire ) led into a sort of little back kitchen , where dirty work , such as washing up dishes , might be done , and whose shelves served as larder , and pantry , and store-room , and all . |
| 13 | Many only record data and perform simple calculations such as adding up columns or working out averages . |
| 14 | Simple procedures such as backing up data on a regular basis , getting a fire safe , or storing master disks off-site offer a relatively high degree of protection . |
| 15 | There 's nothing unusual about clogged up roads in London , but this was the school half-term holidays — usually a haven of relatively clear tarmac , a glorious window of opportunity to leave home for the office a quarter of an hour later . |
| 16 | The Wolfcraft Bench Sander is ideal for truing up faces of timber prior to making joints , especially mitre-joints ( ideal for frame makers ! ) |
| 17 | The focus of this is about fourteen inches from the centre and if you put a microphone here when this this thing is outside it 's ideal for picking up bird song . |
| 18 | Event and fault-trees can not only define the minimum response the system has to make to ensure a successful outcome follows an initiating event , and indicate where additional , ‘ redundant ’ equipment may be required to ensure this , but they are also valuable in showing up system sensitivities . |
| 19 | It does n't it 's not good for building up relationships . |
| 20 | Its cleansing steam power is equally effective for freshening up paintwork or plasterwork on the walls or ceilings . |
| 21 | This has been a fairly gritty chapter , all about beating up baddies , causing them pain and putting them to flight . |
| 22 | If it is a wet day or it has recently been raining , so much the better for showing up leaks and dampness . |
| 23 | It should be something useful for setting up home , if only a rather expensive bottle-opener , possibly with other small mementoes of his favourite bachelor activities or sport such as golf balls , presented inside something amusing and clearly feminine but not in bad taste , such as a pair of stockings , with a blue garter for him to give to his bride for the wedding so that she can wear ‘ something borrowed , something blue , . |
| 24 | The S3 graphics co-processor and its associated chipset is justly acknowledged to be more than useful for speeding up Windows graphics , offloading much of the graphics work from the CPU as it does , and the speed up with a variety of tasks under Windows and applications is very noticeable . |
| 25 | A travel iron is useful for keeping up appearances on holiday . |
| 26 | Did he and Nicola Schreider fancy the rural life for a change , while Guy was temporarily involved with carving up Chesters ? |
| 27 | On that , I think it is generally known , that we , that Telford was n't anywhere near the top of the list , and it had been taken purely on the question of the er , needs of the various areas , it 's unlikely that Telford would have succeeded , even with its reduced geographical area , but I made discrete enquiries and was told that the factor which tipped er , the Commission in favour of Telford , and this has an important bearing on what we 're going to discuss later , was the fact that Telford has been very good in taking up schemes and providing their section , and not just the Wreakin District Council , other area , other bodies in Telford , of getting good innovative schemes off the ground and providing the cash , they did n't , as some areas did , get the status , and then hardly do anything about it . |
| 28 | Both behaviourism and ‘ humanistic ’ views would have us believe that to be affective is to be effective in setting up conditions for learning . |
| 29 | The swift interactive response of the micro and its flexibility within a well-defined set of rules make it particularly effective in setting up game situations . |
| 30 | Neither material particles nor light can follow space-like geodesics ; however , these geodesics are useful in setting up coordinate frames that span spacetime . |