Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] up [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The database administrator ( DBA ) is given the opportunity to set up indexes at data creation time and this will increase the speed by which data is retrieved . |
| 2 | Frank also gave Crawford the opportunity to dream up stunts that would put his previous daredevilry in the shade . |
| 3 | Valuable time was lost , the troops opposed to us were able to recover from the disorganization produced by our first attack , and the enemy was given the opportunity to bring up reinforcements . ’ |
| 4 | What prevented French or German firms borrowing on similar terms in Europe or the United States to those faced by US firms , and using the money to buy up firms in Europe or indeed the United States , was their financial and industrial weakness , not the state of Europe 's balance of payments . |
| 5 | When Marcus came in for supper , two hours later , Daniel 's Mum was still talking , to Stephanie , who was in and out of the kitchen dishing up vegetables and making gravy , to her son , who moved his weight cautiously from time to time on a dining-room chair and frowned and frowned . |
| 6 | Messrs Rudd and McGowan motored through the recession snapping up bargains and transformed Williams Holdings into a FTSE 100 company . |
| 7 | Rather they preferred to farm them out at a fixed rent , at leases which , in the fourteenth century , became progressively longer , and to enjoy the freedom to take up offices or to serve in the army . |
| 8 | A detached head , who acts with detachment , coolly weighing matters up , allowing the mind to soak up ideas and to put them together in new ways , is not a primary-school image . |
| 9 | In those states whose governments have refused to have anything to do with the presidential liaison officers appointed by the president to set up offices in the nineteen state capitals , radio station staff have been likewise forbidden to make contact . |
| 10 | The car gives us freedom ; the car clogs up roads . |
| 11 | Microsoft Corp 's MS-DOS 6 , which will be available on Wednesday , will be offered at $50 for the first 60 days , and $130 thereafter , the company said : the two most compelling new features , the company says , are data compression to double hard disk space , and improved memory management ; it also includes the capability to back up files , protect against viruses and reorganize files on the hard disk — the back-up technology was licensed from Symantec Corp 's Peter Norton group , and the anti-viral technology from Central Point Software Inc — but unlike Symantec 's Norton Back-Up , the back-up feature in MS-DOS 6 is n't automatic and does n't support tape drives , and is also slower — and about 300 new viruses have been discovered since Central Point 's virus detection technology was frozen in MS-DOS 6 code ; both companies hope to sell enhancements to the built-in products to users . |
| 12 | The few ships out in the harbour sent up fireworks and flares , and the low hills around town echoed with the wail of sirens and foghorns — at least until the dark did set in at about three in the morning . |
| 13 | Moreover , this lower level of spending is still sufficient to give us the flexibility to take up opportunities in new areas . |
| 14 | She said school buses come into the village to pick up pupils after parents expressed fears for their safety waiting on the A67 . |
| 15 | Ha er a man on the hatch , t to tell the crane driver what to do or where to go , well you w you would have four men in the hold making up slings of timber . |
| 16 | The move to build up stockpiles in the US is a result , at least partly , of such fears . |
| 17 | This feels wholesome and gives me the confidence to take up issues of racism and sexism in the Lesbian and Gay Workers ' Group and issues of sexism and heterosexism in the Black Workers ' Group , within the organization we work for . |
| 18 | Sponsored by UNESCO , the meeting followed up initiatives that sprang from the Third Consultation of Ministers of Culture of Latin America/Caribbean in September last year . |
| 19 | But the other thing , which is even more important , is the need to follow up medicines after they have been marketed , because generally speaking the disasters which have occurred erm have occurred once the medicine has been in use and they are terribly rare things . |
| 20 | ‘ Why had the 1980 Constitution abolished the right to put up posters ? ’ |
| 21 | Since 1972 the 189 member Committee has had the right to draw up opinions on all questions relating to the Community , but it remains advisory . |
| 22 | The contra cause was fired by reverence , both among the rebel leaders and their American sponsors , for democracy in its raw form , not far from anarchy : for freedom of action and impulse , for the right to take up arms and set up companies , but not for the constraints of legislatures or even , much , for the damp blanket of different opinions . |
| 23 | perhaps even more importantly , the Commonwealth representatives agreed on four ‘ freedoms ’ of the air that would form the basis of an international settlement : the right of innocent passage over sovereign territory ; the right to land for non-traffic purposes ( i.e. refuelling , repairs , and emergencies ) ; the right to land passengers , mail , and freight from the airline 's country of origin ; and the right to pick up passengers , mail , and freight for passage to the airline 's country of origin . |
| 24 | The British used the four ‘ freedoms ’ agreed at the Commonwealth meeting in October 1943 as the basis for discussion , but refused to consider a US proposal for a fifth freedom : the right to pick up passengers , mail , and freight at intermediate stops not in the country of origin of the airline or its ultimate destination . |
| 25 | Crowds possess great wit ; the group throws up nicknames of an aptness and ingenuity the clever individual by himself could never invent . |
| 26 | In addition , each site has the facility to set up codes of its own for local use . |
| 27 | Downing Street officials work late into the night drawing up plans to tell the Commons , the nation and the world that Charles and Diana can no longer bear to live together . |
| 28 | ‘ During one of those desperate days when we were being attacked , I remember there was an official rescue ship which used to trail behind the convoy to pick up survivors from torpedoed ships . |
| 29 | However , although one or two balls did reach the land and even struck masonry , these were spent shot and did no real damage , the rest throwing up spouts of water harmlessly . |
| 30 | In October 1321 the king took up arms to restore his personal authority . |