Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It means that there are holes in the DLV's willingness to connect up the evidence and enforce the conclusions it generates . |
| 2 | Just as in his rotation of Party officials to areas with which they had no connection and where they would have difficulty building up a power-base , so now Ceauşescu was transferring people into new places of work , forcing them to move from their old homes . |
| 3 | Some of Tuscany 's best wines , now made entirely from Sangiovese , would never have reached the drawing board had not an imported French variety got up a lot of Italian noses . |
| 4 | Sir [ James ] Stephen added : ‘ The effect of adopting this definition would be to include under one description all the cognate offences which at present make up the crime of theft . |
| 5 | Meanwhile the main path route goes up the valley until sea reappears ( where these two routes merge ) . |
| 6 | The ensemble should , of course , not be too sexy , but polite , though not conciliatory — nothing that could suggest an inclination to join his mother in the kitchen to whip up a batch of fairy cakes . |
| 7 | Photographs , coloured yarn and a short text made up the rest of the display . |
| 8 | They pause , watching her long walk across the grass , a supplicant walking up the cathedral nave , she has a sense of awe , her hands are cold and damp in spite of the heat . |
| 9 | Roux and Co cook up a treat at Food Show . |
| 10 | At the end of last year , and with the help of its publishers ' advisory committee , the Council 's Libraries , Books and Information Division drew up a book promotion policy . |
| 11 | What Teller hopes the West will do will be to develop its inter-dependence , eradicate secrecy between its constituent parts so the defence and the knowledge thereto is shared , and behind its nuclear shield build up a society that will prove the point about the superiority of its system . |
| 12 | After the Allied landings took place , that same month , Franco 's controlled press continued to assure readers that the Axis still had the upper hand , and the Spanish Foreign Ministry drew up a plan entitled " Bases for Political Negotiations with Germany " . |
| 13 | This problem is common with fine lines when you tie any type of knot which entails pulling the line above the hook to tighten up the knot . |
| 14 | In Allen v. Jarvis ( 1869 ) L.R. 4 Ch.App. 616 a solicitor-executor drew up a bill of costs amounting to £691 and paid himself out of the testator 's assets . |
| 15 | Rachaela had , again , the image of a man in a black cloak walking up the house wall . |
| 16 | Erm I 'm er rising to take the opportunity to sum up the debate er for those of us on this side of the house and to say that on this side of the house we do welcome these orders actually coming through , delayed though they are and er besmirched though they are by the usual examples of government incompetence in failing to send them to the scrutiny committee in the proper manner to allow the usual processes to take place but wi that 's par for the course these days . |
| 17 | At first sight everything seemed normal as boats bobbed at anchor in the little harbour , the wind whipped up the sea , and the mainly farming community attended to early calving . |
| 18 | The first attempt to drive up the cost of travelling by road brought down the government . |
| 19 | The amp 's master volume pot , headphone socket and mains switch make up the remainder of front panel controls . |
| 20 | The snakes and the tardy remedy make up the entirety of God 's response . |
| 21 | Dot spooned up the bottom from where it was cool and milky . |
| 22 | In what seemed to him to be the far distance he could see Mariana and the President climbing up the meadow to meet him . |
| 23 | She wore a pale blue suit , skirt slit up the thigh for combat , and a white blouse . |
| 24 | From having the best midfield in the league it now seems to have gone distinctly limp — what price now Batty ( nice to see Battyburn keeping up the chase ) . |
| 25 | During the 1980s the college built up a deficit of over £1 million because for several years its grant was not increased . |
| 26 | She knew that what I said was believable enough , since Vadinamia was a highly likely place for a courier to drum up a job conveying something somewhere . |
| 27 | In Western Europe legislators have ceded sweeping powers to make detailed regulations to central government executives , allowing them in effect to write up the law ‘ as they go along ’ in a discretionary way . |
| 28 | A brisk walk around the bailey to work up an appetite sounded good , and a glance at the Prior , who was still shaking his head gloomily over his drinking-horn , convinced him that there was no more to be gained by pushing the issue . |
| 29 | HM Inspectorate helped in various ways and Statistics Division of the Scottish Office Education Department drew up the sample of schools at short notice . |
| 30 | Mr Marland wants action to clean up the mess once and for all . |