Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ever since then , as the story goes , journalists have kept up the tradition of ending the final page of each story with the sign -30- . |
| 2 | These manufacturers have pushed up the resolution a little by breaking the display into submatrices , addressed separately , but connected to give a unified picture . |
| 3 | Cunningham ( 1982 ) reports that if parents decide to give up the baby permanently , it is ‘ for the parents who make it , the right decision , . |
| 4 | The staff will stay on until the parents arrive to pick up the children . |
| 5 | While the part-time handymen do tidy up the area from time to time the amount of time they can devote to this is strictly limited . ’ |
| 6 | A huge land-grab is going on in Bosnia-Herzegovina today as Serbs and Croats fight to divide up the country . |
| 7 | The proceeds have shored up the balance sheet but the trading picture is grim . |
| 8 | Sudjic implies this when he explains how architects of office blocks have to dress up the imperatives of mechanical engineers , and when he examines , and rejects , attempts to tie the design of tower blocks to the social ills they can contain . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , he secured peace , also reconciliation with Spain , although that was marred by the disclosure of the Guy Fawkes plan to blow up the House of Commons , in 1605 . |
| 10 | South Tees Health Authority and South Tees Community Health Council have drawn up the forms . |
| 11 | Shrewsbury and Borough Council have taken up the flagpole , have decided to spend a considerable amount of money on providing a visitor attraction in those buildings , around those buildings . |
| 12 | The figures for deaths from leukaemia seem to back up the prediction from dose estimates that something very serious happened at Windscale in 1957 . |
| 13 | Liberate , pacemaker for Alphabatim , took the field along at a strong gallop as far as the straight , a good half mile from home , where he fell back and allowed Commanche Run to take up the running . |
| 14 | Yeah I think it just depends whether the local group want to take up the option or not . |
| 15 | Since the 1970s , water purification plants have cleaned up the lake , which had become seriously polluted by heavy metals and organic compounds discharged by industrial plants . |
| 16 | Customs have set up the Dover Customs Yacht Team to deal with queries on yachts under temporary importation arrangements in an EC country on 31 December 1992 . |
| 17 | The trophy , named after a past director of Stoddard 's carpets , has been at the company for the past 37 years , but this is the first time in history that the organisers have opened up the competition for runners up . |
| 18 | Equity investors have made up the difference . |
| 19 | Officers have dug up the foundations of a garage in Goddard Avenue , Swindon , in a resumed search for Mrs Main . |
| 20 | The reforms have speeded up the pace of resource management ( now being rolled out to all acute units ) , made medical audit compulsory and strengthened managers ' formal powers over clinicians . |
| 21 | Executives from over 300 North West firms have taken up the Challenge this year |
| 22 | But if the FA decide to take up the matter , I believe Arsenal will not take action , because they do not want to see Wright punished twice . |
| 23 | His remarks follow a media campaign to build up the prestige of Mr Jiang , who was party boss in Shanghai before moving to Peking to replace his disgraced predecessor , Zhao Ziyang . |
| 24 | TWO royal servants have cheered up the Queen 's ‘ annus horribilis ‘ by getting married . |
| 25 | The storms have speeded up the process of new though on such matters ; more or less overnight they have provided the opportunity to create a new order . |
| 26 | Clearly , borrowers have to weigh up the pros and cons of each mortgage offer — greater flexibility in one area of the lending terms is likely to be balanced by restrictive conditions in another area . |
| 27 | Local pupils have taken a great interest in the British Gas work , which is bringing gas supplies for the first time to the Bere Alston and Bere Ferrers communities , where more than a third of the 1042 homes in the area have taken up the offer of gas . |
| 28 | The military and large corporations control Congress and the president while the American people have to pick up the tax bill to finance it all . |
| 29 | Enticed by a 2 per cent incentive payment on top of the National Insurance rebate , some five million people have taken up the option since it was introduced in July 1988 . |
| 30 | She added : ‘ A lot of people have walked up the Eiffel Tower so I thought it would be something different to go backwards . |