Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] up [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is for employers to set up suitable pension arrangements for their employees . |
| 2 | Do they sit for hours making up ridiculous French translations for tomato soup and spam ? |
| 3 | Examination of the debate on Buxton 's resolutions for gradual emancipation of 15 May 1823 , of his resolution for parliament to take up general emancipation of 15 April 1831 ( the resolution was interpreted in the debate by other speakers as being immediatist ) and , more briefly , of the debate on Stanley 's government resolutions for emancipation followed by a period of apprenticeship of 14 May 1833 indicates a clear shift to acceptance of abolitionist assumptions . |
| 4 | Extra tax relief for companies buying new machinery or spending money on key investment and a 20 per cent tax incentive for companies putting up new buildings . |
| 5 | No , do n't bother to voice the protest I see forming on your beautiful lips ; it will happen sooner or later , but I agree with you that we must get this business of Garry cleared up first . |
| 6 | The original version of Illustrator picked up several awards but neither was nor is a mainstream graphics tool in the same way as MacDraw has become . |
| 7 | Probably more than half of the two million living species of invertebrates making up this proportion live in the seas covering our planet , and perhaps half of these are found in the tropical waters from where aquarium subjects are collected . |
| 8 | I prefer to let the game be fun , with little concern for competition , but sometimes children like to see who takes the shortest number of dives to pick up all the treasure . |
| 9 | The loss of trivial names such as vinyl , amyl , allyl , and so on , which in a couple of syllables conjure up huge chunks of molecules , continues to amaze me . |
| 10 | During the First World War a number of Ministries set up regional offices and the newly created Ministry of Health set up nine regions — an experiment to be rudely terminated in 1921 as an economy measure . |
| 11 | For most people nowadays , any mention of computers conjours up vague images of more or less two things : either Sonic the Hedgehog , or a shapeless , grey , John-Majorish boredom . |
| 12 | On the export side the volume of cars shot up 27 per cent in the three months to November , compared with the previous three months though other consumer , intermediate and capital goods showed much more modest increases of 5.5 per cent , 4 per cent and 9 per cent , respectively . |
| 13 | On another level , de Gaulle 's public recognition of self-determination and the option of independence opened up new possibilities for negotiation . |
| 14 | what are the best exercises then or the best form of exercise to build up some ticker to build up the heart ? |
| 15 | Scrappy notes of lectures piled up unread and kept pouring in . |
| 16 | In most cases heads of faculty picked up general issues that had emerged during the reporting process e.g. public image , relationships between subject departments , staff support ( or lack of it ) for extra-curricular activities . |
| 17 | Sixty alleged Palestinian informers or collaborators had been killed by August 1989 , as the Israeli Defence Force ( IDF ) and Shin Bet ( the Israeli secret police ) increased their use of informers to set up paramilitary groups working alongside Palestinian collaborators . |
| 18 | One obvious way to reduce the risks of conflict between the powers was to encourage the formation of an ‘ ultra-imperialist ’ consortium of powers to open up new territories like China . |
| 19 | The proportion of output given up varied according to such factors as region , land quality and time , some allowance being made for the abundance of the harvest . |
| 20 | Gon na ask you to do an exercise now er it 'll it 'll take us to four o'clock before we start talking about assertiveness what I 'm gon na ask you to do is in one , two three , one two in two twos and a three I want you to put on paper one side one sheet of paper to sum up all the things we 've done about communication so far today and it 's going to other people on this course , and it 's going to be marked by one of them on this course . |
| 21 | The yellow splash of paint showed up hundreds of metres away in the bright sunshine . |
| 22 | In the series of mothers followed up those who consistently reported the minor symptoms were regarded as neurotic or overprotective . |
| 23 | A lot of girls end up promiscuous , when all they 're looking for is friendship . |
| 24 | Through their researches , I know that many of these events are the result of creatures picking up subtle cues from the environment which we , with all our " hi-tech " equipment , are quite unable to detect . |
| 25 | To the Young Generation averred that " We do not need a tsar , or an emperor , or the Lord 's anointed , or a robe of ermine covering up hereditary incompetence " . |
| 26 | The accessibility of the seas led the maritime countries of Europe to build up huge fleets of ships , amounting to about six times as much tonnage as the rest of the world ( most of whose ships belonged to the United States ) and this predominance was to increase later . |
| 27 | I commend the order to the House to afford continued statutory protection to the very small number of teachers taking up new contracts of employment during any hiatus between the current date of expiry of the 1987 Act and the coming into force of the first pay and conditions order under the 1991 Act . |
| 28 | Erm , so you would leave what I call this deadwood lying on your spreadsheet , cells that are using up memory , they 're not needed any more erm , on many people 's spreadsheets I 've discovered quite a lot of deadwood using up large amounts of memory , like in some people 's cases two-thirds of the memory used by the deadwood . |
| 29 | If the new clause goes through without amendment ( a ) , it will empower the Secretary of State to set up such a council . |
| 30 | In 1983 the Department of Employment set up Regional Benefit Investigation Teams . |