Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday police used teargas to break up protestors blocking aid lorries near Zenesa . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A powered digger to break up ground . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He has struggled on social security to bring up Louis with girlfriend Debbie Blount . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's good practice , ’ Nutty panted , in a dying effort to keep up morale . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | In spite of his expressed desire to soak up atmosphere , he did not feel at home there . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Environmentalists and local politicians this wee k welcomed an ambitious initiative to clean up Darlington . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It took them a little while to pluck up courage to go along and when they did , they chose the Norfolk Gliding Club at Longstratton near Norwich . |
| 20 | Just three of the qualities I possess that will be invaluable when I get the inevitable call to take up Football League management . |
| 21 | A demonstration by around 20,000 people on Oct. 26 prompted the Slovak government to step up security in Bratislava . |
| 22 | Make a conscious effort to speed up activity in this way . |
| 23 | Labour would have backed his ambitious scheme to step up funding for European industry and would have been less rigid in opposing transfers of cash to the poorer regions . |
| 24 | The British media 's peculiar psychological tendency to build up sportsmen only to make them scapegoats , at a later stage , for wider national ills is well enough recognised by cricketers . |
| 25 | Earlier , the Bank of England threw away £10BILLION in a futile attempt to prop up sterling . |
| 26 | The Great Britain international hooker charged down full-back Garry Jack 's clumsy attempt to kick up field and then pounced over the line , Paul Eastwood adding the two points . |
| 27 | Once a rabid animal has been found in the area , staff would be issued with protective clothing to round up animals in the surrounding district . |
| 28 | Representatives from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees have been struggling to cope with the flood of refugees and have appealed to the international community to step up relief . |
| 29 | The trouble was , the transport yard in Page Street was a good place to pick up bits and pieces of worthwhile scrap . |
| 30 | jobs , maybe a good eye to pick up faults in the pattern and that but as for you have to be clever I think it 's senseless . |