Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [verb] up [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The very freedom which marks the period of childhood gives unrivalled opportunity for picking up all sorts of information about the environment ; the child is not handicapped by attending school and listening to formal instruction which is for the most part unrelated to his interests and needs . |
| 2 | It was the perfect excuse for ringing up complete strangers and asking all sort of personal questions . |
| 3 | Award for serving up Future Cooks |
| 4 | Western support for tearing up existing loan deals , then , held the key to Mexico 's success . |
| 5 | New Yorkers have always shown a greater genius for putting up new buildings than for repairing old ones . |
| 6 | On March 13 it was announced that a human rights unit had been created within in the Foreign , Justice and Interior Ministries " with responsibility for following up international organizations ' activities in the sphere of human rights " ; this followed a report released by Amnesty International on March 3 , which had alleged the routine use of torture . |
| 7 | The benefits for the local inspector are that by their greater number ( compared with HMIs — see Pearce , 1982 ) they can become more familiar with the schools , and by virtue of their advisory role they will have some responsibility for following up any findings of an inspection — whether it be formal or informal . |
| 8 | A SCHOOLBOY computer hacker who caused worldwide chaos was banned from using the phone by his mum after running up enormous bills , a jury heard today . |
| 9 | Film reviewers have a simple rule for sizing up new movies : ‘ If nothing happens in the first ten minutes , ’ they say , ‘ nothing 's going to happen . ’ |
| 10 | You may notice during the beginning of Stage I that you experience some withdrawal symptoms as a direct result of giving up certain foods and drinks that you usually consume . |
| 11 | But before I try to answer these questions , let me remind you once again that there are vast areas of the globe , where ethnic politics , however embittered , are not nationalist , sometimes because the idea of an ethnically homogeneous population has been abandoned at some time in the past , or never existed — as in the US — or because the programme of setting up separate territorial , ethnic-linguistic states is both irrelevant and impractical . |
| 12 | The practice of locking up young people in remand prisons should end immediately , according to an independent inquiry into four suicides at Feltham prison , Middlesex . |
| 13 | What he did say was that Rabbit has no intention of setting up wholly-owned subsidiaries in any country , because of its commitment now to its previously neglected distribution partners . |
| 14 | Nigel had absolutely no intention of giving up any of his rights , and thus an examination of social security and tax together was impossible . |
| 15 | ‘ One advantage is that it can be used indoors at the bigger exhibition centres , thus saving the time and expense of setting up individual exhibitions . ’ |
| 16 | It would be a foolish and expensive form of self-indulgence to pay for a course of treatment just for the pleasure of making up fancy tales about previous incarnations . |
| 17 | These , in turn , had derived from an experiment in wiring up 18 homes in Milton Keynes — hardly a representative scheme . |
| 18 | There is a dilemma in building up modular degrees , whether undergraduate or postgraduate , on a discrete unit basis where the studies should be integrative across subjects . |
| 19 | Perhaps the key figure in opening up that debate , and reviving the issue of the franchise , was John Bright , at least before Gladstone 's conversion to the cause . |
| 20 | This loss ( profit ) may be calculated by subtracting the ‘ loss from taking up unsubscribed shares ’ from the ‘ fees paid ’ . |
| 21 | Some firms in the US and France have tackled the problems of isolation by setting up small centres which are a meeting point for homeworkers as well as a focus for organization . |
| 22 | At the same time they can interfere with the replication of normal viruses in the cell by using up raw materials . |
| 23 | Although the role of vitamin E in nerve function is unknown , Diplock and Lucy from the Royal Free Hospital Medical school have suggested that it acts as an anti-oxidant and protects the membrane of the cell by mopping up reactive free radicals . |
| 24 | The Government 's Advisory Committee on Science and Technology ( ACOST ) has suggested splitting practical and pure research by setting up separate research councils to handle each . |
| 25 | The world 's northern , or boreal , forests have played a key role in mitigating the greenhouse effect by soaking up huge quantities of excess carbon dioxide . |
| 26 | Mr Rice then tossed away the dwarf vote by lining up all seven for Labour . |
| 27 | One advantage of setting up these centres is that they may help a two-way flow of ideas for efficient technology , possibly serving as a model for changes to Western society . |
| 28 | This framework had the advantage of pointing up particular events in the process which would be improved by more careful management by ‘ sending ’ as well as ‘ receiving ’ employers . |
| 29 | They had little hope of bringing up fresh provisions in these conditions , and if they lengthened their lines by a few more miles they would have no hope at all . |
| 30 | We want to point out again the difficulty of drawing up regional strategic guidance in the absence of a stated national coastal strategy . |