Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Bundestag ( lower house of federal parliament ) debate on March 12 set up a commission of inquiry into the former East German regime . |
| 2 | Cardinal Miroslav Lubachivsky , 77 , the spiritual leader of up to 5,000,000 Ukrainian ( Eastern Rite ) Catholics ( commonly known as Uniates ) , returned on March 30 to take up residence in Lvov in the West Ukraine after 52 years in exile in Rome . |
| 3 | NEW YORK ( Reuter ) — Programme buying and a rush of short-covering sent US blue chips to new highs , with the Dow Jones Industrial Average closing 40.84 points up at 2,754.56 . |
| 4 | Hard-up families are buying them at £3.60 each to fatten up at home . |
| 5 | You have to have some enthusiasm to do such a person justice , whereas Jahn has an instinctive antipathy to him and listens with his ears half stopped up . |
| 6 | TRANSFORMER 2 follow up their massive ‘ Pacific Symphony Too ’ club hit with ‘ Fruit Of Love ’ , already creating a stir and set to step out of the clubs and branch off into higher regions . |
| 7 | This allows Figure 2.1 to rise up to a satisfying and unifying point , and has implications for the role of philosophy in the undergraduate curriculum which will be explored in the final chapter . |
| 8 | The impact as well as the shock of the bullet wound knocked him crashing face down to the ground , his legs all mixed up with the trolley 's wheels . |
| 9 | We gave the crashing waves off Rubha Dubh Tighary a wide berth as the force 5 picked up from behind . |
| 10 | Under supervision by a bankruptcy court , a firm in chapter 11 draws up a reorganisation plan which it then negotiates with the creditors while a judge arbitrates . |
| 11 | This situation began to change under the Yorkists as Edward IV built up the royal estates and improved their management . |
| 12 | This dust , and a , what 's it a hundred and fifty cars all piled up on top of one another |
| 13 | Too many guys down there with their ears all sharpened up . |
| 14 | Initially , a majority of these reluctant long-distance movers commute back to their metropolitan jobs , but in the longer term many take up more local jobs — a feature that has grown as employment too has decentralized ( Herington , 1984 ; Congdon and Champion , 1989 ) . |
| 15 | On the proposal in Recommendation 18 to set up a committee to advise on priorities for grant-aid , he argued that this would help to keep the WEA on its toes , true to its traditional concerns for rigorous study of subjects appropriate to understanding contemporary society . |
| 16 | So if you think of the nucleus of uranium , lots of protons and lots of neutrons all bunched up together . |
| 17 | Yeah you 'd better check it cos if , those one er pound eighty adds up do n't they ? |
| 18 | The idea of that drunken old package wriggling on her back in the snow unable to get up , had them all in fits . |
| 19 | Perceiving more clearly than most the dangers inherent in the darkening American situation , the Barclay brothers first gave up their commission merchant business and then gradually reduced their export trade to North America . |
| 20 | ‘ Luiza told me , when Therese first came up here , that she was divorced and the husband was in a clinic over near Mayerling — the Schubert Clinic — I remembered that because I thought it was a funny name for a clinic . ’ |
| 21 | Chapter 8 takes up another theme from chapter 6 : why managerial strategies concentrate on particular issues rather than others . |
| 22 | A century and a half later , of course , many new fossil discoveries and much critical analysis have greatly advanced our understanding of dinosaurs , although not to the extent that the controversy and emotion first stirred up by Owen has entirely abated . |
| 23 | Viola Machin , seated in a dignified pose on the corner of the kitchen table , her white and pale blue brunch coat billowing around her , found her pose of aggrieved innocence difficult to keep up . |
| 24 | During the 12 months prospective follow up of the 30 patients completing four weeks treatment , one patient ( prednisolone treated ) was lost to follow up at week 16 . |
| 25 | Also the scheme will cost more than £15 million to set up as well as £17 million a year to run . |
| 26 | SEAQ volume at 5 o'clock was 324.2million shares , with the FTSE index closing 7.2 points up at 2,192.3 In properties , there was renewed interest in Rosehaugh , 20p higher at 553p , on hopes that Olympia and York will make an offer . |
| 27 | SEAQ volume at 5 o'clock was 324.2million shares , with the FTSE index closing 7.2 points up at 2,192.3 In properties , there was renewed interest in Rosehaugh , 20p higher at 553p , on hopes that Olympia and York will make an offer . |
| 28 | The first was over £1 million to set up the George Pitt-Rivers Chair of Archaeological Science in memory of the distinguished anthropologist , the late Captain George Pitt-Rivers . |
| 29 | Legally an income of £40 a year rendered a freeholder liable to take up knighthood , but as a result of inflation £120 was now desirable to support the dignity . |
| 30 | Laos Following the award to BGS in August 1990 of a six-month Asian Development Bank consultancy , a BGS-led team comprising a geologist , an exploration geochemist , a bibliographer and a cartographer , together with a mineral economist from British Mining Consultants Limited , worked at the Department of Geology and Mines ( DGM ) , Vientiane , between September 1990 and March 1991 to draw up a new Mineral Exploration and Development Plan for the government of the Lao PDR . |