Example sentences of "[to-vb] [vb pp] up [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Statutory agencies will have to use a judicious mixture of grant and contract to help set up new organisations run by the community for the community , to create the range and choice required by consumers . |
| 2 | Fortunately , glider designers seem to have given up all-moving stabilisers in favour of a fixed tailplane and normal elevator . |
| 3 | OH , what a stir was caused by Ghostwatch , the BBC Halloween programme which appeared to have conjured up evil spirits in a haunted house . |
| 4 | ‘ The visit , in view of the time allocated , was necessarily superficial and only likely to have picked up gross discrepancies , ’ it said . |
| 5 | Her visit to the Doctor seemed to have stirred up old memories , like sediment at the bottom of a pond . |
| 6 | A huge volume of Ferranti shares has changed hands since they returned to trading just over a week ago and a number of other potential bidders are believed to have built up small stakes . |
| 7 | Syrian troops are believed to have rounded up many militiamen in the Bourj Abou Haidar area , where the fiercest fighting erupted . |
| 8 | During the final days , the occupiers were reported to have rounded up Kuwaiti civilians and carried them off to unknown fates in Iraq . |
| 9 | Therefore the MPs in question are unlikely to have lined up lucrative jobs that preclude the hard slog of putting black upon white . |