Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] up [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | this , this , they only start from sort of like , there 's the house , and it goes half way up the garden , so I want fifty up at one side , and put fifty to go up other side , I want fifty to go across the garden , and they 're gon na go across the garden and cut the garden in half |
| 2 | And they 're much easier to pick up that way . |
| 3 | Do n't be afraid to open up uncharted areas or kick down a few fences . |
| 4 | The European Commission last year proposed that all EC railways should separate track operation from running services , in the hope that it would then be easier to open up national railways to outside competition . |
| 5 | Company and tax law should be amended to make it easier to set up diversified forms of ownership including profit-sharing schemes . |
| 6 | The Executive Committee shall be free to set up such committees as it may think fit and decide their terms of reference ; and have power to fill in any casual vacancies among the Honorary Officers , any officers so appointed serving until the next Annual General Meeting at which elections are due to take place . |
| 7 | The pilot of a Rallye had intended to take off from one field and land in another to pick up two passengers for local flying . |
| 8 | Gilford , a 27-year-old from Crewe , is so keen to make the European team that he would even be prepared to give up any invitation he might receive to compete in the US Open this year . |
| 9 | ‘ Space is always available at airports for commercial operations such as shops and bars , but the authorities are not prepared to give up some space for security . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ We need electricians and plumbers willing to give up two weeks of their time to work in the hospital and also fundraisers to help raise the cash to fund the work . ’ |
| 11 | Because the dollar had a privileged status as a reserve currency , theoretically interchangeable with gold , the United States was free to run up huge balance of payments deficits , print money to cover these deficits , and then export their inflation through foreign investment , in the process buying up foreign companies . |
| 12 | But even here the administration was careful to build up formal channels of access that it could control and that would in turn support the regime , as in the case of traditional leadership , which was recruited as a legitimizing instrument of government in the localities . |
| 13 | I would also be prepared to take up some responsibility in the popular government , It will be a less oppressed life , more tranquil , although perhaps at home there will only be me because my husband and my two sons have been murdered by the army and the others have gone to fight . |
| 14 | They knew where I was , and it left them free to follow up other leads and so on . |
| 15 | It might be possible to pick up more people . |
| 16 | Using this approach , it is possible to pick up incipient warning signs as the company starts to decline well in advance of it crossing the solvency threshold , allowing much more time for action to be taken . |
| 17 | The results show that it has been possible to set up community-based placements which offer much richer social and material environments than the hospitals they replace . |
| 18 | Tutors are appointed as and when required and this makes it possible to set up new classes without too much preamble . |
| 19 | Although it is impossible to sum up 170 years ’ service in just a few sentences , I would like to congratulate five members of Wimpey Plant and Transport staff who , between them , have given this many years of loyal service to the company . |
| 20 | Visits from a local authority social worker can also do much to open up other lines of communication for the old and lonely ; and it can be helpful too for any elderly person who is housebound and not within easy calling or tapping distance of her neighbours , to have a large clear HELP notice to put in her window , and a loud bell to ring in an emergency if there is no telephone . |
| 21 | We knew that VAT was going to be an issue , but because everything was so vague we found it impossible to draw up detailed plans in advance , which meant that at the last minute we had to commit unbudgeted and unplanned resources to enable us to be ready for January . ’ |
| 22 | Rain had turned the battlefield to a swamp , and it proved impossible to move up heavy mortars to knock them out . |
| 23 | It is very easy to make up new words in order to personalise the song . |
| 24 | It would be only too easy to dig up fifty tips for overcoming conflict . |
| 25 | Finally , over the devastated battlefield and the approach roads — the latter rendered quite chaotic by the even more viscous mud of the Woevre , and clogged with the moving gun-teams — it was impossible to bring up enough ammunition to sustain anything like the rate of fire of the first four days . |
| 26 | The point is not simply to abandon this type of teaching but to acknowledge and analyse its limitations in the light of a more complex understanding of the nature of racism and to develop forms of educational engagement more likely to open up racist subjectivities and common sense to alternative discourses . |
| 27 | Women are also very quick to pick up emotional atmospheres , and to sense the quality in a room or building . |
| 28 | There are two obvious reasons why it may be hard to set up this market . |
| 29 | The higher , more metaphysical elements of literary space fiction were avoided , keeping the whole series fast moving and thus more likely to pick up good audiences — despite the British public 's general anathema to sf around that period . |
| 30 | Smith , a TA corporal in 10 Para and Rennie , a TA sergeant in 15 Para , then returned to Camp Three to pick up extra rope and equipment to push the route further at the next opportunity . |