Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [noun pl] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One keen young steward on the Cannon Street-Hastings trains drummed up afternoon beer trade by operating his trolley on the platforms at Cannon Street . |
| 2 | Strong local currencies in the Taiwan and Korea production centres pushed up costs and attempts to take advantage of a cheaper environment in China were dashed by events following the Tiananmen Square demonstrations in Peking . |
| 3 | IS N'T it strange how the moment interest rates go up banks feel compelled to push up their rates ? |
| 4 | Ken picks up street talk like Sunday newspaper diarists pick up gossip , late and usually third-hand . |
| 5 | As an example , in Cambridge the Regional Authority community officers set up co-operatives in the belief that these were ‘ natural ’ and only lacked resources to succeed . |
| 6 | In 1986 , however , only 31% of all newly qualified Ph D graduates took up university employment ( Anderson 2 ) , and the boom period for academic jobs was around 1965 , when 53% of all such researchers found employment in universities , so that it may be that the majority of successful Ph D researchers over the period have not had access to those facilities which would have helped them to publish . |
| 7 | In 1986 , however , only 31% of all newly qualified Ph D graduates took up university employment ( Anderson ) , and the boom period for academic jobs was around 1965 , when 53% of all such researchers found employment in universities , so that it may be that the majority of successful Ph D researchers over the period have not had access to those facilities which would have helped them to publish . |
| 8 | The obvious area for development was for the group actively to seek Manpower Services Commission monies to set up employment creation projects and to use those funds to establish self-sustaining ventures as certain other projects in the area had done . |
| 9 | Remember too , memory resident programs take up memory . |
| 10 | ‘ A while ago , the Federation of Family Support Groups set up advisers at some courts to distribute leaflets and give help to families of prisoners on the spot . |
| 11 | Eleven Halstead Rotaract members cleaned up part of the River Colne , between the mill and the town 's High Street before having a birthday party — in the middle of the flowing water . |