Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] up [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This quantity is sufficient for 125 litres of compost , enough to plant up a considerable number of hanging baskets , pots and window boxes . |
| 2 | For all the talk of Welsh rebirth , Scotland 's performance ought to be good enough to set up the Triple Crown chance at Twickenham next month . |
| 3 | Because of this , it can operate for 15 hours continuously at full power , stopping only to pick up a new coal pack . |
| 4 | Er now we , the pensioners , had no choice , we were picked up and put into the new scheme having paid our contributions appropriately to the old scheme rules which were the higher contributions , but only to pick up the new scheme rules that were against our interest . |
| 5 | As in Chapter 2 , there will be room only to open up a few of the many possible perspectives and issues , and to suggest some ways of thinking about them . |
| 6 | The prince , at a loss with the complexities of women , was quick enough to pick up an offered lead , and not infrequently bettered the prompting , as he did now . |
| 7 | These jelly-filled tubes have electroreceptor cells at their ends , delicate enough to pick up the tiny discharges of the prey 's body . |
| 8 | She took a deep breath , made the effort to be mature enough to pick up the olive branch . |
| 9 | More might have tuned in to hear him but their radio sets were not powerful enough to pick up the German stations broadcasting in English . |
| 10 | It is not necessary to like a client personally to build up a constructive relationship , but obviously it helps . |
| 11 | One way round this problem that has been suggested is to complement our village-centred studies of micro-process with studies of institutional or bureaucratic micro-process ; to do , for example , ethnographies of the planners as well as the planned , and so to build up a composite picture of the social realities of people in different social niches . |
| 12 | She had promised Julie that she would be well enough to get up the following day and they would take a trip in the pony and trap to visit friends in the area who Julie had not seen for years . |
| 13 | Betelgeux is a vast red supergiant , large enough to swallow up the whole orbit of the Earth round the Sun , while the pure white Rigel is a cosmic searchlight with 60000 times the Sun 's luminosity . |
| 14 | As in most dances there is advance and apparent retreat , only to take up a fresh position for the next advance . |
| 15 | And again perhaps to follow up a previous question and the question is this , that in the first draft of the statement of faith which was presented two years ago , there was a very clear statement which said that Christ died for our sin in connection with the cross and I was wondering what the reasoning was which took away that very specific meaning of the death of the Christ into a much more general and ambiguous one in the statement before us today . |
| 16 | It might only postpone the day , but even one day is breathing space , and I fancy he 's sharp enough to make up a plausible story , once he knows the odds , or to persuade this witness to a different tale . |
| 17 | Decisively outvoted , Hoare went away to think up an alternative plan . |
| 18 | Have you ever been tempted to put a couple of booby trap techniques in there on purpose , just to screw up the poor guy transcribing it ? |
| 19 | CEDRIC Pioline and Wally Masur produced another round of magic yesterday to conjure up an unlikely meeting in the semi-finals of the US Open . |
| 20 | They decided at a meeting of the Labour group of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities in Dunblane yesterday to set up a working group to prepare for a referendum . |
| 21 | FOREIGN ministers of the Organisation of African Unity endorsed a plan yesterday to set up the first pan-African peace keeping force , despite a chronic shortage of money . |
| 22 | It took them just 93 minutes yesterday to wrap up a crushing 10-wicket win , with Akram taking three wickets in 14 balls and Smith left high and dry on 84 . |
| 23 | TWO-YEAR jail sentences and unlimited fines will face Scottish knife-carriers under Scottish Office plans announced yesterday to toughen up the proposed law . |
| 24 | As the JMU random visit programme goes into its second year we need to find better ways of isolating the representative results from those of the reactive , com-plaint-led , visits , and learn to interpret them statistically to build up a reliable picture of the auditing profession , its strengths and weaknesses . |
| 25 | And the remaining cash is to be set aside to clear up the old Blacketts brickworks off Alexander Street , Darlington , where residents have complained of fly tipping . |
| 26 | Taking a line between Margins Of The Mind and Psyco Killer , it climbs directly to finish up the vertical section of The Hand Traverse . |
| 27 | Insurance firm Minet stepped in yesterday to take up a last-minute offer to sponsor the event , while BSkyB will provide satellite coverage . |
| 28 | It is rather to point up the intense cultural sensitivity to the face as a motif in western representation . |
| 29 | They had been brought here to round up the escaped prisoners but fortunately no one was giving them any information . |
| 30 | Then back here to set up the new squad . ’ |