Example sentences of "[noun] to clean up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Marland wants action to clean up the mess once and for all . |
| 2 | However , Western scientists allege that the Russians are exaggerating the dangers in a bid to raise funds to clean up the wreck . |
| 3 | Many visitors to Luanda leave with the image of a dead city , where large glass windows in state-run shops reveal mostly empty shelves , where sewage too often runs through the streets — there 's a cholera epidemic now — where the state has had to hire a private firm which imported Filipino lorry drivers to clean up a decade 's worth of rubbish . |
| 4 | It took the squadron all the remaining hours of daylight to clean up the airfield . |
| 5 | Ronnie Wood came over once and it took me three months to clean up the mess . |
| 6 | Countries bordering the Baltic have agreed , as a result of the summit , to implement an emergency programme to clean up the Sea , with a target of halving the inflow of harmful substances by 1995 . |
| 7 | Scientists are now drawing up plans to clean up the mess . |
| 8 | The Green Party said plans to clean up the environment were doomed unless the Government gave an immediate cash injection to the departments responsible for enforcement and introduced a crash training programme for new staff . |
| 9 | The farm reckons it took twenty man hours to clean up the strawberry patch . |
| 10 | Unleaded petrol is now widely available and it makes sense environmentally and financially to take this easy opportunity to clean up the atmosphere , and make our cities safer places for our children . |
| 11 | One reason is the need to clean up the mess in Eastern Europe left by Soviet military installations and sloppily run Communist mines and factories . |
| 12 | Following the government retreat over the terms of the Directive in 1988 it was estimated that Anglian would have to spend £60-£70 million over the following 10 years to clean up the water supplies of Bedford and Norwich , along with a total 25 supplies that had been subject to derogations . |
| 13 | When the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East went on television that night to clean up the mess that his right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition had put him into again , he did not look pleased about it . |
| 14 | This body in turn can not compel the tip 's owners to clean up the area until regulations provided for in the 1990 Environmental Protection Act have come into force , which may not be until at least 1993 . |
| 15 | In a move that runs counter its commitment to clean up the environment in former East Germany , the German government has agreed to exempt a huge rubbish tip near Schonberg near the Baltic coast from its regulations for a five year period . |
| 16 | Larger and better herbivores meant larger and more ferocious carnivores to prey upon them , scavengers to clean up the mess , and a whole host of subordinate trades for other animals . |
| 17 | These changes , such as the transfer of land to co-operatives and poorer peasants , the literacy campaign and the present drive to clean up the country 's water sources , all demonstrate a thrust of government policy very different from the regime which ended in 1979 . |
| 18 | ‘ I think ’ , he says , ‘ that the Germans had convinced themselves that there was something noble in their quest to clean up the world . |
| 19 | IN AN effort to clean up the mess that has afflicted the Environmental Protection Agency , President Reagan last week pulled an old broom out of the cupboard . |
| 20 | This did not dispel rumours , however , that the resignation was part of an effort to clean up the image of the justice system . |
| 21 | Now taxpayers must pay hundreds of billions of dollars to clean up the mess left by under-capitalised thrifts . |
| 22 | Clinton also announced measures to clean up the government 's own house , including a commitment that federal agencies will buy ozone-friendly products , energy-conserving computers , fuel-efficient vehicles and recycled products . |
| 23 | Well , a world-famous nature reserve is installing an anti-pollution system to clean up the water flowing through it from the River Severn . |
| 24 | Already they have found that growers who want to invest in water collection and recirculation systems may have to spend considerable sums on facilities to clean up the water . |