Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [to-vb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government 's concern throughout the late 1940s was to stimulate building to make up the deficiencies in housing stock arising from bomb damage and the wartime standstill in house building . |
| 2 | Mr Marland wants action to clean up the mess once and for all . |
| 3 | The old masters merely dammed streams and created lakes to break up the landscape or else reflect its beauty . |
| 4 | In 1965 Lloyd went back to being Student 's editor , and Jim Haynes headed south to set up the London Traverse Company at the Jeanetta Cochrane Theatre in Holborn . |
| 5 | Urging firms to take up the challenge of the new markets to safeguard their future , he added : ‘ It is the innovative and proactive oil and gas service companies of Scotland with the vision and drive to explore and capitalise on international markets who will succeed and grow in the next century . ’ |
| 6 | It allows users to pick up the dirt without the danger of coming into contact and the device has won praise from Peter Gitson , the officer in charge of Middlesbrough Council 's dog warden service . |
| 7 | And now , with the accountants still hiring bulldozers to gather up the money , they 've begun to blow it all via smack , the biggest sucker punch of the lot . |
| 8 | These grey areas show the need for clear procedural guidance for staff , carefully thought out training courses from SSDs , and extensive links between social services and health authorities to enable workers to weigh up the needs of the child , parental concerns , and the real risk of transmission to others . |
| 9 | Wholesalers reported an improvement in sales both year-on-year and compared with February , and said they expected volumes to keep up the pace this month . |
| 10 | The New Zealand ‘ open ’ adoption approach has not used research to follow up the parties involved beyond the initial years following placement , and the children involved in the arrangement are yet to be interviewed . |
| 11 | A spokesman for Mercury said this week that he was waiting for engineers to fit boards to hook up the exchange . |
| 12 | IN Monday 's paper ( Echo March 9 ) I read that the Darlington council poll tax will be £300 this year , this includes £19 to make up the shortfall for people who refuse to pay . |
| 13 | You may need to use tweezers to pick up the pieces and position them on your egg . |
| 14 | We then invent criteria to back up the choice , delegating our responsibility to professional specialists . |
| 15 | Request to consider action to clear up the patch at the top of Baberton Loan on the Lanark Road . |
| 16 | Z2033 remained on display at Duxford in its naval colours until September 1989 when Ken Evans and Herbie Church , two volunteers with the IWM , started work to tidy up the aircraft , working at the outset just one or two days a week . |
| 17 | Both machines should have cue/review to speed up the location and setting of edit-points , this being the most time-consuming part of the process . |
| 18 | The text of their draft resolution will ask the secretary general , Boutros Boutros-Ghali , to study ways to set up the court . |
| 19 | Now she is able to eat again , although naturally only very little and often but already she is feeling stronger and is doing exercises to build up the muscles which had become so weak . |
| 20 | There was loads of encouragement to all those who attended and took part to take up the sport on a regular basis . |
| 21 | The sharply reduced number of 16-18-year-olds will inevitably lead employers to bid up the wages of that age group to entice young people away from education and into unskilled or semi-skilled jobs . |
| 22 | Then I can safely leave Lisa to make up the flowers when she has time . |
| 23 | It enabled Hardy to mount up the points , but Fernandez never gave up trying , despite visibly tiring from the halfway stage . |
| 24 | It contained potatoes to stuff up the exhaust pipes of expensive cars , and a very large sharp knife for tearing holes in the hoods of convertibles . |
| 25 | A company must pay consultants to set up the programme and chemists to test the urine . |
| 26 | I never find myself , fatigue in the voice , reminding Flaubert to hang up the bathmat or use the lavatory brush . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Eduardo took me out to a nearby restaurant on the Tuesday evening , saying he was too lazy to cook and that he does not often nowadays have any or many chances to take women out ( ! ) , so in return on the Wednesday I got food to make up the rest of a meal using two wild ducks had generously given me to roast , and we had the second one cold on the Thursday after my second meeting . |
| 29 | All day long wheelbarrows trundled up and down the unmade surface carrying topsoil to neaten up the edges of the path . |
| 30 | However , Western scientists allege that the Russians are exaggerating the dangers in a bid to raise funds to clean up the wreck . |