Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | His own sources among the Altun had picked up vague hints of another conception upon which Sidacai had drawn or to which he had been led . |
| 2 | It was only after they had offloaded the stock that the dealers would find out their teamleader had bought up large quantities of it himself . |
| 3 | The English edition sold out very quickly , and rumour had it that interested parties had bought up large numbers of copies in order to minimise its impact . |
| 4 | Their Kipling characteristics would surely have immediately attracted man 's attention , and he would soon have thought up other ways of increasing the frequency of such useful animals . |
| 5 | This has opened up new areas of employment for actuaries , frequently involving communication skills as well as technical expertise . |
| 6 | In ten years ' time we shall no doubt still be using the techniques discussed in this chapter but we may also have opened up new avenues of research by widening the range of materials examined and by using other scientific techniques which at present are only at the development stage . |
| 7 | These opened up new opportunities of producing components either for export to the big car companies in America or Europe , or for sale to the local affiliates of those same companies . |
| 8 | Now the runners were nearly into the straight , and Mandarin — lame and exhausted — called up extraordinary reserves of courage to retrieve the forfeited ground . |
| 9 | By its tests and challenges , a storm called up hidden powers of recuperation . |
| 10 | The children had a bag of homemade bricks , you know , all sawn up different blocks of wood and so they kept themselves amused with that . |
| 11 | The human rights organization Amnesty International then called on the government to investigate whether human rights had been violated , and a presidential commission accordingly set up recorded allegations of torture from nine of the 13 detainees whom they interviewed , and Pérez on March 24 ordered the release of eight suspects who were still being held . |
| 12 | Poverty also brought up romantic visions of the struggling artist , fewer demands and expectations , and the kind of hard-headed practicality that was bred into me in the North of England . |
| 13 | So it was when the Germans over-ran Holland in 1940 and within three days had rounded up large numbers of Jews — the Dutch population records which included religious affiliation were put to sinister use , promptly and efficiently even without the aid of modern technology . |
| 14 | So , what if Wolfgang Klein 's innocent enquiries about hidden caves and grottoes had churned up bitter memories of accounts still unsettled ? |
| 15 | He had lined up assorted members of the crack US Navy team known as the Seals , a 100-horsepower Zodiac boat , a helicopter , and an oxygen back-pack with six minutes of air . |
| 16 | SHELL has passed up potential profits of hundreds of millions of pounds and revenue of about £1 billion over the next few years after deciding not to take up its full rights in a major oil find west of Shetland . |