Example sentences of "[num] [adj] [noun] [to-vb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | If anything , Big Life are probably unnerved by how prolific the Megas are ( they 've already demoed 12 new songs to follow up this year 's sparkling ‘ Sebastopol Road ’ album ) . |
| 2 | Military personnel were constitutionally debarred from voting , but members of the armed forces belonging to Golkar were among the 500 additional appointees to make up the 1,000-member Majelis Permusyawaratan Rakyat ( People 's Consultative Assembly ) , which would elect the President and Vice-President in March 1993 . |
| 3 | This allowed the six selected practices to set up administrative and computer systems without the worry of dealing with real money . |
| 4 | The past year 's thaw has made it possible for at least 35 non-governmental organisations to open up offices . |
| 5 | Depressed by what he perceived as a work-shy post-war Britain , Braham in May 1952 sailed with his wife and his three young sons to take up a commission in the Royal Canadian Air Force . |
| 6 | The GX-7 is a small plastic box measuring some 12cm x 6cm x 3cm with a minimum of controls : two rotaries for Drive and Level and a bank of eight miniature switches to set up the gain and simulation modes . |
| 7 | The company has had to take on ten extra staff to make up the order . |
| 8 | They established it would take five derelict wrecks to build up one flyable aircraft and its reliability would no doubt be poor . |
| 9 | She 's probably had one helluva lot to put up with . |
| 10 | Harvey the conformist was the first of the five remaining customers to pick up the outsize gesture . |
| 11 | She used only one gas-guzzling vehicle to pick up two small Royal children from school . |
| 12 | The idea is the brainchild of CEWTEC , the training and enterprise council for Chester , Ellesmere Port and Wirral which is now seeking 15 local firms to take up the cut-price offer . |
| 13 | Somewhere in her thirties , long abandoned by a useless husband , and with two small children to bring up , she was not given to self-analysis . |
| 14 | I was left with four small boys to bring up and , from the start , maintenance payments were irregular . |
| 15 | The result was that Teshigawara made Belfast the first priority of his UK tour for the Japan Festival — not an easy thing to do , given that the settings will take two whole days to set up , with a further day for transporting them from Britain . |