Example sentences of "up an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another new instrument that the Commission will be considering next year is a revised draft of the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture , which would set up an international system of visits to places of detention , aimed at preventing torture and ill-treatment . |
| 2 | What we 're trying to do is to write cricket bats , so that when we throw up an idea and give it a little knock , it might … travel … |
| 3 | It is not a question , he wrote , of drawing up an inventory of all that is required , because that suggests that one can know exactly what will be required . |
| 4 | I kept seeing these double helices like two snakes winding up an invisible tree , only smaller . |
| 5 | If you want a mixture of species and colours , grow individual bulbs separately in plant pots and then plant up an arrangement using bulbs which have reached the same stage of development and look to be just about to flower . |
| 6 | Therefore , the fourth way to underline effectiveness is to slide forwards slightly on the front foot , drawing the rear foot up an equal distance if there is a danger that otherwise the stance will stretch out . |
| 7 | Readers of The Favourite Game will remember Breavman dissecting a frog , which arose out of such early experiences ; they will also remember his tearing up an economics textbook outside a bank on Sherbrooke Street — another reaction to the struggles and disinterest he later recalled . |
| 8 | A small , fair woman came into the lounge , picked up an embroidery frame from the table , turned a chair away from the television , sat on the chair and began to sew . |
| 9 | In so doing Railfreight chalked up an achievement which would scarcely be considered feasible by any other European railway administration : only in Britain is the freight-carrying railway required to function without government subsidy . |
| 10 | ‘ YOU 'VE got to get rid of the males , ’ David Gardner said with such fierce determination that he conjured up an image of concentration camps for male hops in remote parts of Kent . |
| 11 | Sub-headings seem to take up an inordinate amount of space ; do we really need separate headings for ‘ What is Tincture of Benzoin ’ , ‘ How to use Tincture of Benzoin ’ , ‘ How to carry Tincture of Benzoin ’ , and ‘ Where to buy Tincture of Benzoin ’ ? |
| 12 | For the next couple of years , Sinitta was dog-less as she ran up an amazing string of chart hits with the guidance of the nowlegendary Stock , Aitken and Waterman . |
| 13 | The Board of Trade promptly set up an enquiry into the industry and its methods and techniques . |
| 14 | The Government seems to be trying to destroy the education and health services in Britain and to set up an alternative system in which wealth rules . |
| 15 | The Republicans also picked up an estimated 14,000 votes from the Social Democrats and yet more from people who have not bothered to vote before . |
| 16 | A Labour government would immediately initiate the widest possible review defence commitments world-wide and set up an arms conversion agency . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 18 | I put up an entirely illegal barbed wire fence . |
| 19 | An STC spokesman explained that the £1.7m sale was made by Mr Walsh to escape the rising cost of the loan he took out to pick up an option on 1 million STC shares in February . |
| 20 | But the BBC-commissioned Anniversary keeps up an exhilarating flow of counterpoint , flung around from one instrument to another , rich in incident and in side issues but , for all the pace , radiating a quiet air of serenity and sureness . |
| 21 | To throw up an impenetrable Berlin Wall between you and them could be tactless . |
| 22 | They make up an archive of incalculable value . |
| 23 | THE ROYAL Statistical Society is to consider setting up an independent council to monitor the Government 's use of statistics and research in a climate of growing concern about political interference . |
| 24 | The honorary secretary of the Royal Statistical Society denies in a letter published on this page today that there are plans to set up an independent council to monitor the Government 's use of statistics , but such a development would be desirable . |
| 25 | However there are no plans at present to set up an independent council to monitor the Government 's use of statistics . |
| 26 | Barry Quirke , chairman of the Institute of Statisticians , said : ‘ We would be very keen to support any initiative to set up an independent committee , so long as it has teeth . |
| 27 | Forty-three members of the old party set up an HSWP cell , and urged their comrades all over the country to do the same . |
| 28 | The display on consumption utilises the age-old trick of piling up an adult 's average monthly intake of food ( enormous amounts of chocolate ) and invites the visitor to burn off excess calories on an ‘ Energy Bike ’ ( it does , of course , take a depressingly long time to nullify the effect of just one grape ) . |
| 29 | Rovers stand to pick up an extra £25,000 if their former player makes the Great Britain side . |
| 30 | He drew up an agreement in two copies , setting out the terms in ponderous detail : ‘ … referred to henceforth as ‘ the colony' ’ … which wheels shall be considered as handed over to the Economic Section of the Provincial Workers ' and Peasants ' Inspection after their reception by a special commission and the signing of the corresponding protocol . ’ |