Example sentences of "not [verb] up a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But these are isolated groups which do not make up a force . ’ |
| 2 | Why not make up a party ? |
| 3 | These single-unit certificates do not make up an SVQ , nor is there any intention , at present , to have SVQs in assessment . |
| 4 | ‘ In fact , it was about the only game in which I 've not picked up a knock since the start of the season . |
| 5 | I 'm surprised that we 're not picking up a bit more a few more highlights , it 's a bit . |
| 6 | All they do when they 're at sea is take down the messages we send to them , so do n't worry about not picking up a signal , 'cause nobody 'll be sending you any . ’ |
| 7 | Before papa died she had been a child , spoiled and cosseted and it was a pity she had not grown up a bit more quickly . |
| 8 | This is not to set up a system which once again asks women to do something painful and impossible , to juggle with all the expectations that come when we are working as wives and mothers and outside the home as well . |
| 9 | And he shall judge among many people and rebuke strong nations afar off ; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks ; nation shall not lift up a sword against nation , neither shall they learn war any more . |
| 10 | Unsurprisingly , since some institutions have literally thousands of enquirers , records are seldom kept of those who do not follow up an enquiry with an application . |
| 11 | This was further reflected by the fact that a third of the MPs did not keep up a house in London , confirmation of roots outside Westminster ; sessions lasted for only about thirty weeks a year and even during session the attendance of backbenchers was sometimes spasmodic . |
| 12 | Join a group or class of kindred spirits ; why not touch up a canvas or try your hand at prose , poetry of pottery ? |
| 13 | ‘ They might not set up a road block , ’ said Jean , biting her lip . |
| 14 | The words used by the testator did not set up a trust , for they represented not testation with respect to his own property ( which would , of course , have been legitimate ) but an attempt to deprive one of his daughters of her right to free testation . |
| 15 | ‘ We have to recognise the strong feelings among black and white people that the party should not set up an organisation which is racially exclusive , and could be seen as a form of apartheid . ’ |
| 16 | For example , we could not set up an experiment to test the effect on young babies of being left in complete isolation , except for being fed regularly . |
| 17 | Director of Studies : ‘ That 's a series of behavioural objectives … why not draw up a checklist ? ’ . |
| 18 | And er I think i we thought from that well why not set up a women 's support group and er see what the reaction was really from from the women you know and an I and we said in that lodge meeting will you ask everybody all the women that you know that er are involved , the friends the girlfriends and wives , to come along the next Tuesday and we 'd have a meeting of our own . |
| 19 | They can not hold up a stream of people to talk to an unfamiliar face . |
| 20 | Be careful not to break up a sentence with a full stop : Although she was a mentally ill person who lived in her own mind and was allocated a limited number of mental processes . |
| 21 | Captain Bowen said it was possible commercial aircraft did not pick up a signal from the emergency beacon , and the radio messages could have been confused with another vessel . |
| 22 | For those who do not know what I am on about , why not pick up a Birthday Scheme Leaflet and make it your resolution to support the Medical Work of the BMS in the New Year . |
| 23 | The issue is even more complicated in the world of sound recording , because we can not pick up a record and listen to it in the same way that we can pick up a book and read it . |
| 24 | The PSD announced on April 30 , 1990 , that it would not put up a candidate against Soares in the next presidential elections , due in 1991 . |
| 25 | In answer to my office colleagues who saw me manhandling a hopper-shaped device into my car boot the other week : no , I was not setting up a home distillery , merely preparing to field-test a pond filter . |
| 26 | FRS 2 argues that not setting up a debit balance ‘ would obscure the comparison between the assets and liabilities attributable to the minority interest and those attributable to group interests both during the period when the accumulated losses accrue and afterwards , if the losses are then made good by later profits ’ ( para 81 ) . |
| 27 | An inquiry into the Beirut massacres was held up because of lawsuits against the Israel government for not setting up an inquiry . |
| 28 | You can turn down a fire hose to water a garden , but you can not turn up a garden hose sufficiently to tackle a fire . |
| 29 | That 's what I meant about the meta-metal , if you took it back to metal you could n't make up a page like your upper and lower case with a big R , unless you spent three years chiselling and fitting the thing , but somehow it looks as if it ought to have been possible to have done it in metal because that 's where it took its springboard from . |
| 30 | But , he maintains , if you do n't throw up a lot of worthless ideas you are unlikely to come up with sensible ones either . |