Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] up [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The notion of ‘ policy ’ is insufficiently precise to indicate the role of members , for example in the consideration of the scope and content of cost-improvement programmes to free up resources for developments and unfunded elements of pay awards . |
| 2 | THE GOVERNMENT is ready to abandon its controversial plans to set up registers of land which may be contaminated . |
| 3 | Earlier expeditions , in the wars against Louis XIV , had twice failed to make any progress up the narrow estuary of the St. Lawrence ; the new expedition under Wolfe sailed up the river and established itself outside Quebec , the capital of New France : British troops took up positions east of the city and also on the south side of the river , but there was no attempt at a seige and the routes north and west of the city remained open . |
| 4 | The optimistic talk about the future of British films softened up sources of capital . |
| 5 | Two High Court judges ruled yesterday that the Magna Carta , dating from 1215 , gave the public rights to dig up lugworms on beaches . |
| 6 | Maps that use these peculiar motions to build up pictures of the amount of matter in space have been prepared by various researchers over the past year or so . |
| 7 | Reports in early September said that the government had also urged southern tribal leaders to take up arms against Shia dissidents . |
| 8 | This may include anticholinergic drugs to dry up secretions and prevent inhalation of saliva . |
| 9 | The very name of one of aviation 's most prized activities conjures up visions of exotic and faraway locations , bright sunshine , sparkling clear seas , white sandy beaches and much else … and to be paid for flying in such surroundings ? |
| 10 | I just do n't want to see similar signs appearing up mountains as hill-walking grows more popular Where would it all end ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In the 1987 West German election eleven tiny parties put up candidates . |
| 13 | I did n't really look at him , though I immediately smelled alcohol on his breath , and thought , that firm is n't going to last long if it 's sending out drunken drivers to pick up clients . |
| 14 | Drunken yobs smash up shops |
| 15 | Yet Punk was betrayed by its libertarian roots : despite the rhetoric and the packaging , the Sex Pistols were utopian , and their obvious pleasure in and mastery of the pop form inspired countless others to take up instruments and make meaning through music . |
| 16 | The past year 's thaw has made it possible for at least 35 non-governmental organisations to open up offices . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | As it happens , the Brits end up with egg on the face , while the native Indians come up trumps . |
| 19 | Until human beings take up roles in an enterprise , it is merely a collection of buildings and plant . |
| 20 | Little boys scrambled up chimneys in Victorian times . |
| 21 | It will be the first international tribunal of its kind since the main allied powers set up courts at Nuremberg and Tokyo after the Second World War to try leading Axis war criminals . |
| 22 | In a pilot scheme carried out from September to November last year , the Japan fisheries Information Centre combined data from the US NOAA-7 satellite with information from its usual sources to draw up charts predicting the whereabouts of fish . |
| 23 | He felt around inside , his long fingers picking up scraps of parchment . |
| 24 | He tried it for a day , but grew bored with museums and heavy concentration , and their clumsy attempts to pick up girls ; he returned to the room during the day when they were out . |
| 25 | Nurses should encourage their elderly clients to take up sports and activities that develop skill and coordination , rather than strength , speed and endurance . |
| 26 | Svend Larsen had told him that the farm was becoming vacant and had offered to negotiate for it on the Colonel 's behalf , the islanders not wanting incomers to buy up farms for weekend occupation only . |
| 27 | They had stopped briefly in the great sculleries to pack up provisions . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It was still raining , great drops spurted up whirlpools of dust , but the buildings cut off the sand and made it seem lighter . |
| 30 | It is difficult to imagine the World Wide Fund for Nature encouraging activists to clamber up chimneystacks or challenge French warships . |