Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the knitting pattern diagrams are very simple shapes and make drawing up to full size and shaping , as far as armhole and neck , quite basic . |
| 2 | I have already discussed the notion of relative novelty in the course of an analysis of habituation ( Chapter 2 , pp. 44–5 ) and failed to come up with hard evidence that might require us to accept its reality . |
| 3 | Counterfeit car parts uncovered included fake brake pads which got mixed up with genuine ones , Mr Northcott said . |
| 4 | I was supposed to be running the operation but I got caught up with other business . |
| 5 | Teesside TEC has joined up with Northern Marketing Initiative for an open day at Training and Enterprise House , Queen 's Square , Middlesbrough , on February 28 between 10.30am and 5.30pm . |
| 6 | He warned : ‘ We can not be expected to come up with good ideas if the Government continues to reduce our budget every year . |
| 7 | My husband suffered a stroke two years ago which has left him partially sighted , but he loves to meet up with old colleagues . |
| 8 | To prevent a messy legal battle , the TODAY casting couch has come up with alternative stars for the role of Liz and seventh husband Larry . |
| 9 | Following the announcement of its pact with StrataCom Inc and Cisco Systems Inc , AT&T Co has come up with sketchy details of the Asynchronous Transfer Mode service it will begin offering early next year . |
| 10 | The archaeological researcher John Barnatt has recently re-examined alignments , first noted last century , of stone circles onto key peaks on Bodmin Moor in or a wall , and has come up with favourable results . |
| 11 | Now a plastics firm called FOLARPILO has come up with tiny semi-permanent condoms for guppies . |
| 12 | For mums who want something more convenient than hanks of cotton wool , Púr has come up with Little Tearaways , sheets of flat , highly absorbent 100% cotton wool . |
| 13 | The spartan nature of camping requires that you live on dehydrated food , and since at the time of going to print no manufacturer has come up with dehydrated beer , enforced sobriety will be a big feature of your expedition . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've run fifteen variations of that conversation , and every one has come up with different motivations for the Doctor . |
| 15 | For printers with no input-output slots such as the LaserJet IIIP , Hewlett-Packard has come up with JetDirect EX boards . |
| 16 | Although the Commissioners are committed not to be swayed by the national interests of their own countries , it is clear that Sir Leon Brittan , the Competition Commissioner , has come up against stiff opposition from his colleagues when he has investigated anti-competitive behaviour in some of their countries , most recently over his veto of the Franco-Italian takeover of De Havilland in October 1991 . |
| 17 | Objective probability applies to those events which have been tested previously and found to come up with consistent results . |
| 18 | Thus , the lack of rules about case allocation and re-allocation procedures , and a consequent separatism which has grown up between social worker and nurse caseloads , mean that team members work in a similar way to each other , but in parallel . |
| 19 | A large body of information — and a certain amount of ‘ folklore ’ — has grown up around hot-wire anemometry . |
| 20 | It is small wonder that the practice has grown up in recent years of referring , however inaccurately , to a mistress as a ‘ common law wife ’ . |
| 21 | The Alumni Foundation concerts are a new and pleasant tradition which has grown up in recent years . |
| 22 | One of the reasons that Britain habitually trails in this sort of event is the culture of dogged amateurism that has grown up in recent years . |
| 23 | The franchise is a form of business which has grown up in recent years and offers the would-be entrepreneur what may at first sight appear to be an easy way to start up in business . |
| 24 | Pupils often volunteer to continue after school with their project and practical work or they take advantage of links which the Department has built up with local industry and further education establishments . |
| 25 | Since then it has turned up in Kenyan tobacco plantations where safety precautions are impractical and widely ignored . |
| 26 | I s'pose now we has to put up with young Doctor Lovell dashing in and out again before you can tell him what ails you . ’ |
| 27 | It is looking to open further offices abroad too , to complement the distributor network it has set up across Western Europe , the Pacific Rim and Australia . |
| 28 | It has teamed up with Ungermann-Bass Inc to develop some of the interfaces to Emerald and says it is currently on the look-out for similar collaborations , which may take some of the financial strain from its development programmes . |
| 29 | The Liverpool Echo has teamed up with friendly bankers TSB , who are giving away these fantastic prizes to celebrate D-Day for thousands of schools athletes who take part in their local TSB English Schools Track and Field County finals on Saturday . |
| 30 | International Telecom Japan Inc says that it intends to start a leased line service between Japan and Moscow this summer , becoming the only alternative on the route to Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp : it has teamed up with Russian satellite services company RSCC . |