Example sentences of "[vb base] up [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doe 's forces put up stiffer resistance to the rebel groupings than was expected , and were able to hold the area of Monrovia around the heavily fortified executive mansion . |
| 2 | Have the local residents put up much objection to these new extension plans ? |
| 3 | Neither MacLeod nor Michael Weir was available four days earlier when Hibs put up spirited resistance to Aberdeen and came within minutes of getting at least one point . |
| 4 | Right so if someone holds up this piece and you hold up this piece to your mum and you say what sort of fraction is this ? |
| 5 | In truth there are liquid acrylics of varying viscosity and therefore suitable for different uses , but the one thing which they all have in common is that they open up acrylic work to the whole field of design and illustration and offer other useful techniques for the fine artist . |
| 6 | Sitting on the tube a largish , overweight man sits under a sign reading ‘ Give up this seat to someone less able to stand than yourself . ’ |
| 7 | Jump the gap and make your way down the steps and platforms to another ladder , pick up another crate to your left and climb down the ladder , kill the workman and run right ( out of the building ) , get on the lift and jump into the little room ( this contains a couple of records ) , get the crate and climb up the ladder to kill the last workman , get on the lift to your left and go to the top , jump onto the platform , and the next , and the next , until you reach the furthest one where there 's an extra life . |
| 8 | If either the Darwinians on the one hand , or the religious leaders of that time on the other , did make any effort to reconcile the theories of evolution with the doctrines of religion , they made no progress and the two factions became hopelessly opposed , and the religious leaders set up intense opposition to the teachings on evolution . |
| 9 | Solidarity ministers , who this time last year were huddled in places like Warsaw 's scruffy Czytelnik café plotting nothing more ambitious than the legalisation of their union , now wake up each morning to the daunting task of building a new democratic Poland on the rubble of the old communist one . |
| 10 | Then , and only then , begin the side-slip and use up sufficient height to be sure that full airbrake will be more than adequate to get down for a spot landing . |
| 11 | It was a gentle pull up Lovely Seat to the cairn , but again the June winds of our English summer were too cold for anything but a brief look over to Shunner and south to Dodd Fell and the distinct hump of Ingleborough before taking a compass bearing and walking off towards Hardraw . |