Example sentences of "up [prep] a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On March 26th in Asuncion , the Paraguayan capital , they signed up for a four-nation Southern Cone Common Market by the end of 1994 . |
| 2 | Early last week the Sun apologised for saying he had never had a real job , but in truth a four-year stint as a tutor organiser in industrial and trade unions at the Workers ' Educational Association 25 years ago does not exactly set him up for a glittering new career . |
| 3 | And they make up for a curtailed visual field by being able to rotate their heads through 180° . |
| 4 | He summed her up as a sharp little piece with a head on her shoulders . |
| 5 | On July 12 , 1989 , the Grey Panthers , formerly a group of some 25,000 members within the Greens reflecting the interests of older citizens , split away and set itself up as a new political party called the Greys ( die Grauen ) . |
| 6 | These can be grown up as a pure bacterial growth in a veterinary laboratory . |
| 7 | Go alt N and you can see what 's happening is your text is actually being indented one tab stop at a time so it ends up as a narrow thin ribbon of text skating down the page and if you do this really crazily you can end up with a document that is only just one word wide ! |
| 8 | HARRISONS & Crosfield must really dislike being classified as an overseas trader if it is willing to go through the complex process of changing its listing only to end up as a miscellaneous industrial . |
| 9 | He starts by being a nice little clerk and ends up as a drooling horror-film monster . |
| 10 | There was little enthusiasm , then , as the paper moved towards the alien financial world of the City to set itself up as a public limited company . |
| 11 | In 1917 Griffiths set up as a consulting chemical engineer in the City of London , a career which he pursued with increasing success until his death . |
| 12 | CHART star Dr Alban trained for five years as a dentist — but gave up after a horrific teeth-pulling session . |
| 13 | Langdon indicated that Hodge intended to establish a Korean Non-administrative Cabinet and Legislative Body which , under his supreme authority , would enact requisitions and laws in the period before the setting up of a unified provisional government . |
| 14 | In turn under the leadership of QC and QC we have sent delegations to the Baltic States , Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania ( at their request , we hasten to add ) , and have assisted in the setting up of a new bilateral organisation called BELLA ( British Law Association for Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania ) . |
| 15 | The new law described the " Corsican people " as " part of the French people " ; established a regional executive council with its own powers , and provided for the drawing up of a new electoral register . |
| 16 | In a passage which is bound to be seen as highly controversial in the present situation in East Germany , Sir Leon said : ‘ If Germany 's partners give the impression of being opposed to reunification this will only increase what is at present a small risk : that some in Germany may be tempted to seek reunification on the basis of doing a unilateral deal with the Soviet Union , involving the setting up of a new unified German state outside the Community . |
| 17 | On 5 November France 's culture minister , Jack Lang , announced the setting up of a new multi-disciplinary institute devoted to the teaching of art history , archaeology , cinema , theatre and dance . |
| 18 | The Welsh Rugby Union , meanwhile , have announced the setting up of a new National Development Player Committee ( NDPC ) which will assist senior players of international potential , and also monitor and evaluate more technical and administrative elements associated with the performance of national senior squads . |
| 19 | One of the more curious recent products of the Bush administration has been the hyping up of a new anti-poverty idea in terms that sound more like black radicalism of the 1960s . |
| 20 | In the latter case , the agent can often make a valuable contribution to , say , the setting up of a new overseas subsidiary company , or even become managing director of the subsidiary . |
| 21 | In 1978 , the mould was broken with the setting up of a private interdenominational primary school in Belfast , enabled by a special act of Parliament . |
| 22 | The need for sound social democratic education was never greater than it was today and there was never a better opportunity for the building up of a strong National Socialist Party . |
| 23 | This conflict was resolved after independence by the setting up of a separate Commercial Service in 1966 . |
| 24 | Philip II began in 1567 the building up of a great Spanish archive at Simancas , the earliest of all major modern state archives . |
| 25 | Modernity began in earnest with this industrialism — like the starting up of a great steam-driven machine , straining and clanking at the mechanical bit and snorting with impatience to be off . |
| 26 | Ungar 's experiments were done before other research — which was to lead in due course to the opening up of a major new branch of neuropharmacology and to the making of some very distinguished scientific reputations — had revealed how important many peptides were in the brain . |
| 27 | The document then put forward three possible options : the setting up of a small central body , along the lines of Model A in the English Green Paper , which would have a majority of its membership from Welsh local authorities ; a Model B type central body which would disburse government funds in Wales and would take from local authority control the colleges providing a significant amount of higher education , including teacher training ; and the direct association in Wales of the solution adopted in England through the setting up of a Welsh sub-committee of the main organization . |
| 28 | Instead they will be made up of a small professional core supplemented by part-timers plus a number of small firms to which they will contract out work . |
| 29 | It stemmed from a declaration on principles of co-operation signed during a meeting between Mitterrand and the Soviet President , Mikhail Gorbachev , in Paris in July 1989 [ see pp. 36821-22 ] , and envisaged among other things the setting up of a single intergovernmental commission to replace existing commissions . |
| 30 | Six months later a Treaty was signed in London which led to the setting up of a 26-county Free State . |