Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] up a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Repeated attempts to start up a newly refitted reactor were delayed by a series of minor faults , including a small fire , insulation problems , and pump failures . |
| 2 | In 1988 the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors set up a ‘ cut-price ’ arrangement which enabled house-buyers to take disputes about house surveys to arbitration . |
| 3 | The Scottish nobles set up a Regency Council with control of Margaret 's baby sons , one of whom , Alexander , Duke of Ross , dies soon after his mother 's sudden departure for England . |
| 4 | Implementation of the Eleventh Company Law Directive will add further complexities to the law relating to disclosure of information by foreign companies setting up a place of business in the UK , according to the Institute 's Company Law Sub-committee . |
| 5 | This theory seems to me the most sophisticated method at present available of conceiving the relationship between musical forms and practices , on the one hand , and class interests and social structure , on the other ; more sophisticated , say , than the theories of homology put forward by some ethnomusicologists and subcultural theorists , which suggest the existence of structural ‘ resonances ’ , or homologies , between the different elements making up a socio-cultural whole. ; Such theories always end up in some kind of reductionism — ‘ upwards ’ , into an idealist cultural spirit , ‘ downwards ’ , into economism , sociologism or technologism , or by ‘ circumnavigation ’ , in a functionalist holism . |
| 6 | MORE than 800 French fishermen smashed up a section of Paris 's main wholesale food market and fought with riot police today in an explosion of anger at low producer prices and competition from imports . |
| 7 | Social services take up a large part of the council budget . |
| 8 | The massive changes brought about by the ending of the cold war and by the collapse of state mechanism in some Eastern European countries opens up a significant opportunity to undertake work in the very near future . |
| 9 | Small-scale basalt eruptions can fill valleys and in some cases over-top interfluves : but large-scale flood basalts can completely bury a pre-existing topography as great numbers of superimposed individual flows build up a basalt plateau . |
| 10 | The Lloyd Baker estate is a few streets of plain Victorian houses reaching up a slope near King 's Cross . |
| 11 | Vibrant atom-age timekeepers clock up a Nobel Prize |
| 12 | There is evidence of Roman traders setting up a depot near Braughing , using the River Lea as the transport link with the Thames . |
| 13 | Over the past two months Mr Steinhardt has juggled positions in banks , drugs and oil-service companies to build up a short portfolio of $640m . |
| 14 | It is usually difficult to see the individual minerals making up a basalt , since they are far too small , so one has to use a microscope . |
| 15 | After this meeting , Charles requested that the Presbyterian ministers draw up a list of their proposals for church unity . |
| 16 | Neither constraint applies to the Tertiary College where adults and part-time students make up a sizable proportion of the student population . |
| 17 | Set in the early 1980s , and about liberal politicians cleaning up a small town , it will , Beswick hopes , ‘ do for Little Rock what John Major did n't do for Huntingdon ’ . |
| 18 | The 1987 election returned Tim Devlin to the Commons with a 35pc share of the vote but Labour and the Liberal Democrats put up a very strong showing with 33.7pc and 31.3pc respectively . |
| 19 | Three of its leading stars make up a triangle , inside which lies the red supergiant . |
| 20 | Appropriate sociability means saying the right things to strike up a rapport with your client , helping them to relax , feel comfortable and get to know you before cutting the business . |
| 21 | Petty sessions throw up a few cases , but not many . |
| 22 | This smaller team takes records to shops which have a high singles turnover and also carries the most popular current albums to top up a shop 's supply of its best-selling products . |
| 23 | British Telecom is now exploiting its freedom as a commercial company to the full , where Telekom has to hand over all its hard-earned profits to prop up a grossly overmanned and inefficient postal and post-bank service . |
| 24 | In France , the post-war nationalizations set up a tripartite scheme of management with representation of users , public authorities and employees ( Dubois 1975 : 161–3 ; Holter 1982 ) . |
| 25 | In 1989 , the United Nations drew up a convention on these rights , signed by 74 countries . |
| 26 | The two forged blocks set up a visual field where the entire space becomes a manifestation of sculpture . |
| 27 | Overseas firms make up a significant proportion of the membership . |
| 28 | Under cover of the so-called United Nations Commission for Korea , American ruling circles set up a puppet ‘ Government ’ under the traitor Syngman Rhee , who traded away the independence and national wealth . |
| 29 | Leaders representing religious parties , Kurds , communists and pro-Syrian Baathists made up a steering committee which graciously answered reporters ' questions . |
| 30 | EVIL robbers beat up a businessman so badly with an iron bar that he was afraid to leave hospital last night . |