Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] up [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their belief in ‘ maximum self-reliance ’ with regional parliaments retaining ‘ most legislative powers ’ did not prevent the British manifesto from declaring that a Green government would use the European courts to speed up UK compliance with EC environmental directives . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Izetbegovic appealed to Turkey and the EC for support in resisting Serbian plans to divide up Bosnia-Hercegovina between Serbia and Croatia with a Moslem buffer state between the two , a proposal in which Tudjman had also expressed interest . |
| 4 | At 1500 hours a dozen light aircraft swept up Faetten Fjord in line astern , at about 600 ‘ ft ‘ to 1,000 ‘ ft ‘ , with their landing lights blazing against the dull sky . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Tax encouragements to foreign companies setting up UK headquarters . |
| 7 | He has struggled on social security to bring up Louis with girlfriend Debbie Blount . |
| 8 | Enterprising entrepreneurs set up Pemberley Trails and Pemberley Weekends . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | First , there was the 1960 agreement , to which both Iran and Iraq were parties , whereby several major oil-producing states set up OPEC . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ONE stark statistic sums up Ireland 's poor performance in the Inter-Continental Cup programme in Poland , one which threatens to shatter their dream of joining the elite at next year 's World Cup finals in Sydney . |
| 13 | Conway , whose delicate chip set up Fox 's try , landed a splendid goal to make it 6-6 at half-time . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Environmentalists and local politicians this wee k welcomed an ambitious initiative to clean up Darlington . |
| 16 | After a previous band split up Dermot and a few mates recorded a track for a US compilation CD , called themselves Blink and thought no more about it . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Gold-edged clouds sailed in a sea of cold blue sky , violently eclipsed by sleet-scudding showers slashing up Loch Torridon . |
| 19 | A little man turned up Friday afternoon , after they got home you know how we 're very susceptible to these market research types ? |
| 20 | For a fraction of a second , a strange , satanic glitter lit up Lucie 's eyes and his fist clenched and he began to punch it in the air . |
| 21 | A broad grin lit up Rory 's features . |
| 22 | An ugly purple flush rose up Miss Jarman 's already heated face as she slowly realized how he had manipulated her questioning . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The 20-year campaign to clean up Lake Vänern in southern Sweden has been so successful that its waters are in danger of becoming sterile — too clean for fish and plants . |
| 25 | A flexing of the green planes making up Bryn 's face could have been interpreted as a smile . |
| 26 | The big predator snapped up David 's trout bait within seconds of it hitting the water under an over hanging willow tree . |
| 27 | While there may have been isolated instances which appear to confirm this interpretation ( for example , in 1970 the Soviet Union bought up Costa Rica 's excess of coffee , which may well have been a factor contributing to the establishment of diplomatic relations the following year ) , other such instances have been similarly small-scale and the evidence overall is against it . |
| 28 | As each new number came up Bob looked at him and asked , ‘ This one ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ We have good discussions , ’ he wrote , ‘ but there are none of the snide comments about ‘ my Russian mates carving up Poland ’ or ‘ my Commie friends getting more than they bargained for ’ when Russia invaded Finland , that I had on the building job . ’ |
| 30 | A happy holiday course in a sublime setting sums up Ufford Park nicely . |