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 | 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 . |
6 | A powered digger to break up ground . |
7 | 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 ? |
8 | 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 . , |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | He has struggled on social security to bring up Louis with girlfriend Debbie Blount . |
12 | My hon. Friend conjured up images of people coming out of taxis and meeting friends . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | While all this was going on agents of Naggaroth were abroad throughout the Old World stirring up trouble . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | In the French territories , the Free French set up transmitters in both Douala and Brazzaville to counter the pro-Vichy broadcasts emanating from Dakar . |
18 | Their cottage at Spittalburn , midway between Forfar and Dundee , stands squarely in the path of a new section of dual carriageway and although the Scottish Office held up work on the section for a year , it was decided further delays could cost more than £100,000 a week . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | Pout , whiting , dabs and odd dogfish made up bags . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | Based on the Marvel comic of the same name and filmed back in 1988 , it 's the usual uncomplicated but enjoyable mix of demolition derby and fuck you one-liners , which features Dolph as a leather-clad psycho-avenger tearing up nightclubs with huge guns , using his karate skills on mob bosses and riding round city sewers on his Harley . |
24 | But such pretentious billing set up Cuisine 2000 for instant mockery whenever problems arose — as surely they did . |
25 | Conway , whose delicate chip set up Fox 's try , landed a splendid goal to make it 6-6 at half-time . |
26 | ‘ It 's good practice , ’ Nutty panted , in a dying effort to keep up morale . |
27 | The SSI 's practice guide on the welfare of children in boarding schools advised : ‘ There is no perfect way to bring up children and care must be taken to avoid value judgements and stereotyping . ’ |
28 | In spite of his expressed desire to soak up atmosphere , he did not feel at home there . |
29 | He says he was a little bit fed up becausehe had to plough up the same strip of the field several times for the film crew . |
30 | Retail banking ties up capital and property and staff in large numbers and in the wrong places . |