Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were clear political reasons for setting up the LDDC and other Urban Development Corporations , and for deciding the way in which they conduct their affairs . |
| 2 | Plans for setting up the Newbolt Committee were initiated in the course of an unprecedented mobilization of the whole population to sustain what has been described as the first " total " war effort . |
| 3 | When the commission unveiled its tough plans for shaking up the beer industry in March , many industry watchers predicted that Whitbread , forced into a choice between keeping its six breweries or freeing two-thirds of its 6,250 pubs from the obligation to sell its beers , would decide to keep full control of its pubs and pull out of production . |
| 4 | We have seen how McClellan 's system provides a framework for building up the bookstock at each service point . |
| 5 | Checklist for setting up the picture |
| 6 | TEC directors have already persuaded the Home Office to hand them responsibility for smartening up the employment prospects of black and brown Britons . |
| 7 | The planners had in fact already taken out of the hands of the industry a good deal of the coordinating responsibility for making up the plant backlog , recognising electricity supply as a crucial sector in their overall economic planning and taking steps to intervene directly where they were dissatisfied with the progress made by the Pre-vesting electricity undertakings . |
| 8 | The counsellor has responsibility for starting up the discussion . |
| 9 | Moon Valley Software 's Icon Hear-It is a program offering lots of fun utilities for brightening up the Window Desktop . |
| 10 | Moon Valley Software 's Icon Hear-It is a program offering lots of fun utilities for brightening up the Window Desktop . |
| 11 | The main features of the 1990 budget , originally introduced on Sept. 19 , 1989 , and reintroduced substantially unaltered and adopted after the formation of the new centre-left government in November [ for which see p. 37050 ] , were the following : ( i ) a general cut in income taxes by 10 percentage points , including a reduction in the top rate from 72 to 60 per cent ; and ( ii ) a major programme for cleaning up the environment . |
| 12 | if a supplier is late with a delivery , there should be procedures in the purchasing department for chasing up the delivery . |
| 13 | You may have worries about bringing up the subject of safer sex in case your partner thinks you are ‘ easy ’ or that you have ‘ slept around ’ . |
| 14 | One problem is that we may have no clear criterion for dividing up the workforce into classes and strata . |
| 15 | A DDL for setting up the user views or external schemas and a DML for the processing of hierarchies ( applications using the data ) is described in Section 7.2 , in the context of IMS . |
| 16 | Secondly , there are two methods of building up the image within the printer . |
| 17 | Some Wall Street analysts responded in rage to the report , Reuter reports : ‘ Even to have a recommendation of splitting up the company is ridiculous , ’ says Piper Jaffray analyst David Rothschild . |
| 18 | The most common styles of influencing up the hierarchy are persuasion , manipulative persuasion and manipulation . |
| 19 | For the first time the new cannon offered relative ease of production , and a greater degree of safety in use , unlike the former practice of building up the guns from iron bands held together with loops . |
| 20 | The Commission says that the government 's practice of propping up the company by waiving interest payments due on CNP 's debts of ECU 1410m ( £987m ) — owed mainly to the state — serves to promote artificial preservation of the status quo , and to ‘ postpone necessary adjustments ’ . |
| 21 | Besides , does not the practice of carving up the syllabus and letting each lecturer get on with his or her own bit not lead to overlaps , duplication , lacunae and untied threads ? |
| 22 | The SDP had been formed in 1981 with the intention of opening up the centre ground of British party politics [ see pp. 30911-12 ] , but after the Social and Liberal Democratic Party ( SLDP — now termed Liberal Democrats ) was formed in March 1988 combining most members of the former Liberal Party and of the SDP [ see p. 36501 ] , David Owen led the rump as a " continuing " SDP . |
| 23 | In the series ‘ Show Girls ’ she depicts the showgirl and stripper with the intention of opening up the debate around the fetishised female image and the male voyeur . |
| 24 | The ‘ mid EQ ’ preset on channel 2 has the effect of tightening up the sound while adding a little more in the way of mid/top frequencies — a bit like playing a Strat and switching between neck pickup only and middle'n'bridge . |
| 25 | Also high interest rates have the effect of driving up the exchange rate , which in turn can be damaging to exports . |
| 26 | This will have the effect of driving up the market price of long bonds , making their yield lower than normal , and perhaps even lower than short-term yields . |
| 27 | ( 4 ) Rumours of a full bid may have the effect of driving up the target company 's share price . |
| 28 | For all her talk of shaking up the town 's bureaucracy , Mrs Molina will have to learn some of her opponent 's conciliatory skills to win a better deal for her constituents . |
| 29 | JILY JIP TUP A thinking machine that develops a stammer ; the action of pulling up the trousers while running uphill |
| 30 | JIL JIPY TUP Any machine with something incurable about it ; pleasant laughter that is nevertheless unwelcome ; the action of pulling up the trousers while running downhill |