Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] up [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | THE GOVERNMENT is ready to abandon its controversial plans to set up registers of land which may be contaminated . |
| 4 | Well last Friday a man with a white wig , Lord Justice McCowan used five even more devastating words to sum up life in The Sun : ‘ Sensational , inaccurate and misleading coverage . ’ |
| 5 | Even more did this apply to economic power — witness the failure of repeated attempts to build up copartnership or anything resembling profit-sharing in industry . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Not only do they tolerate the fast-food shops serving up nutriment that top breeders would n't recommend for Fido , they go as far as purchasing two expensive weeks in a gruesome timeshare apartment , and sit smoking all day on a balcony overlooking the A9 . |
| 8 | Tax encouragements to foreign companies setting up UK headquarters . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The optimistic talk about the future of British films softened up sources of capital . |
| 11 | Two High Court judges ruled yesterday that the Magna Carta , dating from 1215 , gave the public rights to dig up lugworms on beaches . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A study of different ways to burn up plutonium by America 's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory came out against such clevernesses , at least as far as using up America 's surplus plutonium is concerned ( though it did recommend more research into a few ) . |
| 14 | Reports in early September said that the government had also urged southern tribal leaders to take up arms against Shia dissidents . |
| 15 | Enterprising entrepreneurs set up Pemberley Trails and Pemberley Weekends . |
| 16 | large-scale fiscal measures to speed up slum clearance and housing schemes , to improve local amenities , to boost family incomes by generous family allowances , to improve the job market in the inner city , and to implement the proposed extension of nursery provision . |
| 17 | This may include anticholinergic drugs to dry up secretions and prevent inhalation of saliva . |
| 18 | Marine bacteria take up DNA floating freely in seawater and dismantle it , experiments off the coast of Florida have shown . |
| 19 | In often busy trading Scottish shares frothed up 20p to 389p with stories flowing that the French BSN foods and drinks group or the giant US brewer Anheuser-Busch was about to pounce . |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | First , there was the 1960 agreement , to which both Iran and Iraq were parties , whereby several major oil-producing states set up OPEC . |
| 22 | I just do n't want to see similar signs appearing up mountains as hill-walking grows more popular Where would it all end ? |
| 23 | THE US is sending envoys round the world to persuade developed nations to cough up money to help pay for US weather satellites . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In the 1987 West German election eleven tiny parties put up candidates . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Because of her international success and recognition , Meyer is one of the personalities South Africa is using to encourage more and more youngsters from the townships and under-developed areas to take up sport . |
| 28 | THREE masked thugs trussed up businessman Tom Hartley and his wife Helen at their home and drove off in their new £60,000 Mercedes with valuables worth £250,000 . |
| 29 | Drunken yobs smash up shops |
| 30 | Type 3 shows that elite competition can be stable , with democratic arrangements building up support for the political system in a ‘ centripetal ’ fashion , so long as the political culture of the country is relatively homogeneous . |