Example sentences of "up a [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mercer 's bid to control Hibernian opened up a deep wound in the capital and brought unwanted attention to the embattled Hibs board . |
| 2 | This was vintage Glenavon , recovering from a rocky start to take apart a team who had built up a fearsome reputation in a 26-match unbeaten run locally . |
| 3 | This was vintage Glenavon , recovering from a rocky start to take apart a team who had built up a fearsome reputation in a 26-match unbeaten run locally . |
| 4 | Folly followed her guide , praying that the girl would n't ask why she wanted to see Luke Hunter , and trying to think up a good excuse in case she did . |
| 5 | But in a cold , late spring I find it difficult if not impossible to work up a good tilth in time for mangolds . |
| 6 | Furthermore , as some of you here know , the diocese of Bath and Wells set up a working party in 1986 to set out our own policy . |
| 7 | The DES has been anxious to promote a national system of transferability and , to this long-term end , it set up a working party in June 1977 to examine all aspects of a national credit transfer agency , under the chairmanship of Peter Toyne , formerly of Exeter University and now Deputy Director of the West Sussex Institute of Higher Education . |
| 8 | The Committee for Education gave special attention to the question of college libraries and set up a working party in 1974 to advise on provision in colleges proposing to diversify their courses , and over the next three years it offered guidance on ways of assessing the quality of provision , emphasized the importance of the standing of the head of the library service or resource centre , of consultation with the library in course development , and of initiating students into making effective use of the library and learning resources . |
| 9 | Fiorello led all the way with Cazade putting up a strong challenge in the early part of the race . |
| 10 | Fiorello led all the way with Cazade putting up a strong challenge in the early part of the race . |
| 11 | A small bone assemblage was collected below a nest in a small cave part way up a low cliff in Qatar . |
| 12 | The established head taking up a keen interest in marketing may well be seen as no more than a leopard cynically changing spots to match the climate of LMS and the introduction of pupil driven funding . |
| 13 | One of her latest projects is to set up a paper-making plant in Nepal . |
| 14 | Norway 's suspicions were soon set aside , and the country joined with its two neighbours in setting up a Nordic Council in 1952 . |
| 15 | ‘ Maybe the best way of putting it is that if you were abroad and on the town , Con would find a licensed brothel where the girls all had health checks , while the riff-raff might sometimes take the risk of picking up a likely-looking tart in a bar . |
| 16 | It was obvious now to the World that America 's involvement had driven Kennedy into supporting a corrupt , totalitarian government because the US felt that stopping Communism was more important than setting up a democratic government in South Vietnam . |
| 17 | Since leaving in March , he had set up a private school in St. Peter 's Parsonage , with about sixty pupils from his old school . |
| 18 | A MASKED armed raider held up a sub-post office in Main Street , Ashgill , Lanarkshire , yesterday with a wooden baton . |
| 19 | Informix Software Inc intends to set up a wholly-owned subsidiary in Eastern Europe during the next few months , but 80% of its business will remain with value-added resellers and distributors . |
| 20 | Will others choose to keep up a continuous presence in covering Yugoslavia in the way that we have over the past year ? |
| 21 | They have spent ten years perfecting their own blend of rhythm and blues and building up a solid base in the region . |
| 22 | Even as he charmed Cagney burnt up a nervous restlessness in a way that would have been very familiar to many of his fans . |
| 23 | Each Victorian town conjures up a distinctive image in one 's mind , an overall impression that blurs the differences that existed within a town between one quarter or district and another . |
| 24 | Thomas Duff , who had been going about his business as a messenger boy when it was said that he ‘ nearly ran in to two gentlemen ’ , put up a stout defence in court . |
| 25 | He dominated the conversation , holding the Hackett and Townshend women spellbound as he told of how he had broken up a white-slave ring in Dublin , and how he had rescued an innocent young girl from a fate worse than death . |
| 26 | To take up a vacant living in Mountsorrel . ’ |
| 27 | David Speedy 's goal enough to get all three points for Leicester and I think on the balance of play they just about edged it but Forest put up a marvellous performance in the second half especially when they had to make er changes and things did n't go well for them . |
| 28 | It is also opening up a rare advance in the ancient art of making metal alloys . |
| 29 | Mill Reef returned to Longchamp the following spring to notch up a ten-length victory in the Prix Ganay , but after a lacklustre display when beating Homeric a neck in the Coronation Cup at Epsom he did not race again : he was being prepared for a second Arc when on 30 August 1972 he fractured a foreleg on the gallops , and was retired to stud . |
| 30 | But after the convention , he launched his campaign with a spirited bus trip from New York to the Midwest and quickly ran up a daunting lead in the polls and held it until the campaign 's end . |