Example sentences of "up a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | General causal models can not be drawn up when interactions exist between the variables ; the only solution is to draw up a separate causal model for each of the groups for whom the effects of the variables are different . |
| 2 | Sinn Fein 's success was built around the pledge that , if elected , they would refuse to take up their seats in Westminster and set up a separate Irish parliament instead . |
| 3 | One of the defendants had been Ivan " Janez " Jansa , who was now Slovenia 's defence minister and an advocate of setting up a separate Slovene army . |
| 4 | The attempt to build up a separate National Labour Party proved a dismal failure , while the Liberal Nationals continued as pensioners of the Conservative party until finally merging with them — as the Liberal Unionists had done previously — in 1966 . |
| 5 | The 1983 agreement by eighteen countries to set up a regional preferential trading area ( PTA ) in East and Southern Africa has been little more successful in overcoming three familiar problems . |
| 6 | Effectively all MAS professionals have a duty to build up a good working knowledge of corporate finance theory and practice ( particularly M&A and valuations ) and maintain this knowledge through regular but selective reading . |
| 7 | You can already manage horses better than any man I know — with the possible exception of Tom here — and you 've picked up a good general knowledge of farming . |
| 8 | She had built up a good little business in the indoor market-hall and now she and George had amassed enough in the bank to set up on a farm of their own . |
| 9 | Although pressed flowers are basically only two-dimensional because they have been flattened , it is quite possible to use several of the thicker ones to build up a good three-dimensional effect . |
| 10 | One should therefore think very carefully and far ahead before deciding to break up a good permanent pasture : it is a slow , costly , and difficult task to get it back . |
| 11 | ‘ My team put up a good workmanlike performance . |
| 12 | Before dinner we 'll all go for a brisk walk along the beach and make sure we work up a nice big appetite . ’ |
| 13 | The only other conspicuous star is Beta ( 2.9 ) , which makes up a nice little group with three other stars , Epsilon ( 5.1 ) , Eta ( 5.3 ) and Gamma ( 4.3 ) . |
| 14 | Better to write , keep up a warm gentle insistent flow of words and wonderful cards . |
| 15 | Afterwards Aunt Louise came and took me to her room , leading the way up a strange little creaking curving staircase . |
| 16 | Standing motionless , a yard inside the room , I began to pick up a strange hissing noise . |
| 17 | In one of the Belfast inner-city communities , I built up a strong personal relationship with a very poor family . |
| 18 | There is thus a tendency to build up a strong personal relationship over a long time , and slick high-pressure selling techniques are unlikely to be of much help . |
| 19 | Basil built up a strong healthy tradition in Primary Art in West Riding schools , slowly and firmly , and in so doing never worked against the natural grain of childhood . |
| 20 | Benelux , for instance , had already moved forward to setting up a low common external tariff with no internal tariffs . |
| 21 | Loretta picked up a straight black skirt from the bed and stepped into it . |
| 22 | The last paragraph sums up a standard hermeneutic objection to behaviourism . |
| 23 | In the light of growing evidence that the duty to report chartered accountants for breaches of regulations and other misdemeanours is putting Institute members off seeking help from other chartered accountants , the Institute is to consider setting up a confidential advisory scheme , possibly at district society level , which would be run along lines similar to the ‘ confessional ’ . |
| 24 | In some ways these experiences both alleviate the problem as well as reproduce it , since it enables some outside income to prop up a failing agricultural economy postponing either abandonment of the area and/or more radical transformations . |
| 25 | Twelve minutes after the break he moved into the middle during a rare Palace break and was in just the right spot to hammer home a left-wing cross to give Palace a great victory and set up a 3rd round tie against Liverpool ! |
| 26 | Help and advice will also be needed in their input in setting up a democratic political system , allowing them and their members full expression and protection . |
| 27 | In August 1990 opposition parties set up a Democratic Antitotalitarian Forum , in February 1991 a National Convention of the Extra Parliamentary Opposition was set up , and in May 1991 a National Convention for the Establishment of Democracy was created . |
| 28 | The slow progress of PWA led Roosevelt to set up a large-scale temporary relief agency , the Civil Works Administration ( CWA ) , to see the nation through the winter . |
| 29 | A FORMER National Health Service doctor trying to build up a private holistic treatment practice yesterday lost his Appeal Court challenge to a General Medical Council rule against advertising . |
| 30 | AFORMER National Health Service doctor trying to build up a private holistic treatment practice yesterday lost his Appeal Court challenge to a General Medical Council rule against advertising . |