Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [v-ing] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Tax encouragements to foreign companies setting up UK headquarters . |
| 3 | Also we went down to the H.Q. at Pages Park where we saw some men putting up photographs of the line in the past . |
| 4 | I just do n't want to see similar signs appearing up mountains as hill-walking grows more popular Where would it all end ? |
| 5 | The harbour was filled with sleek , modern yachts berthed in front of countless restaurants serving up pizzas ( Italy is only 50 miles from Corsica 's east coast ) or fresh fish caught that morning . |
| 6 | Division Broadcast of Leicester has spent 10 years building up goodwill for its Digivision range of colour and monochrome display monitors for computers . |
| 7 | Type 3 shows that elite competition can be stable , with democratic arrangements building up support for the political system in a ‘ centripetal ’ fashion , so long as the political culture of the country is relatively homogeneous . |
| 8 | Would it , he was thinking , be like the ending of Forster 's as yet unpublished Maurice , a somewhat tame homo novel of which he was to say , commenting on the male lovers setting up house at the end , ‘ I give it three weeks ? ’ |
| 9 | But the figures are quite clear that there are benefits of having in-house erm erm , fields that can compete against the private sector for county council work , and the fear , and the reason why they were set up in the first place , to make sure that you could n't have outside erm , er or private organisations setting up cartels to basically screw the local government down , and charge whatever price they want and con us through and through . |
| 10 | And there , sure enough , was the interior of old Jean Damiani 's soap factory with a row of moustachioed Palestinians piling up bar after bar of soap around the walls . |
| 11 | Right so we 've agreed on a maximum of sixteen and three quarter percent paper wastage , three hours setting up time , and er , four and half hours printing . |
| 12 | We spent two or three hours bagging up clothes to take to the charity shops . |
| 13 | Gold-edged clouds sailed in a sea of cold blue sky , violently eclipsed by sleet-scudding showers slashing up Loch Torridon . |
| 14 | It is also evident from Table 12 that all smaller size categories of farms in Powys decreased in number ( from 1970–1980 ) while the largest farms expanded , presumably by the larger farmers buying up land previously held as small , individual farms . |
| 15 | He felt around inside , his long fingers picking up scraps of parchment . |
| 16 | Students who spend many hours writing up laboratory reports in the evenings have not organised their time effectively . |
| 17 | Although ‘ change ’ perhaps suggests dynamism and enthusiasm — in keeping with a successful Club — the energy did not always stretch to the players on the course , for here complaints of slow play were regularly made , doubtless aggravated by televised golf tournaments in which players spent many minutes lining up putts . |
| 18 | Campaigns to save the whales have led to the International Whaling Commission gradually lowering its quotas and many nations giving up whaling in favour of protectionist policies . |
| 19 | The reform of the national insurance system advocated here will also lead to all workers building up entitlement to national insurance benefits . |
| 20 | Men who had formed associations to go hill-walking , cycling , even mountaineering , clutching pamphlets like Initial Efforts on the Boulder Face , or Coping with Crevices , and spent long days toiling up braes and free-wheeling down glens , now had a wage to earn . |
| 21 | This leads to random fluctuations in the numbers of alternative variants making up gene families and , as in gene conversion , one variant copy may replace all the others throughout a sexual population . |
| 22 | Young married couples setting up home have the daunting task of choosing all the major electrical equipment at once . |
| 23 | My wilful grasp upon it had been entirely unproblematic , as sure as neat fingers picking up pins , or knitting , and then casting off the atomic stitches of the material world . |
| 24 | I have a vision of resident tutors beating up classes with the cheerful persistence of a sports organiser on a trans-Atlantic liner ; of extra-mural directors deploying their forces through the English countryside , themselves deciding what classes are suitable for the people of Swindon and Banbury and Slough ; of district organisers calling on mill hands in the remotest dales of Yorkshire with the regularity of the man who collects the rent … |
| 25 | The scene , without the players , is the same today as you enter the low walled garden with its four pleasing square summer-houses at the corners and its grand sweeping steps leading up Swangrove is its exotic and inimitable rendering of the local Cotswold style . |
| 26 | The new industries that had sprung up in Kingston 's poorer areas making up clothes from pre-cut American cloth to export back to the US relied on cheap female labour . |
| 27 | Once the pilot exercise is complete and the views of the three centres and the 30 guinea pigs have been considered , we hope to broaden the pilot into a regular continuous process with more centres setting up certification programmes for the rest of the 500-strong team of verifiers . |
| 28 | About , you know , the horrible charges , and they were horribly badly charged , I mean , Lloyds Bank you reckon they could activate ten and a half percent in its first year to actually break even you know , because of the initial charges setting up fees , etcetera . |
| 29 | The construction of new warehousing within the Port of Belfast will benefit directly Northern Ireland 's export drive through the ability to aggregate goods from the many small companies making up Northern Ireland 's manufacturing industry . |
| 30 | Again one of the essential elements picking up information is that if you enjoy you will then learn more . |