Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [vb pp] 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 | The proceeds have shored up the balance sheet but the trading picture is grim . |
| 4 | South Tees Health Authority and South Tees Community Health Council have drawn up the forms . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Equity investors have made up the difference . |
| 10 | Officers have dug up the foundations of a garage in Goddard Avenue , Swindon , in a resumed search for Mrs Main . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Executives from over 300 North West firms have taken up the Challenge this year |
| 13 | TWO royal servants have cheered up the Queen 's ‘ annus horribilis ‘ by getting married . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She added : ‘ A lot of people have walked up the Eiffel Tower so I thought it would be something different to go backwards . |
| 18 | Many people have summed up the effect of a minimum wage . |
| 19 | STOCKBROKERS have picked up the airline habit : flying merrily on heedless of a leakage of cash . |
| 20 | However , actual variable cost has the disadvantage that if the producer is inefficient , then the inefficiencies get passed up the line ; the divisions receiving the goods get lumbered . |
| 21 | In almost identical terms , constituency parties in the province and Britain have stepped up the pressure for a decisive Government move . |
| 22 | Many elite writers such as Burnham and Weblen have taken up the issue of technological advance and argued that the increasing division of labour and sophistication of the practical instruments of government are associated not with greater participation by the newly enfranchised masses but with concentration of political power in the hands of those who control the technological resources . |
| 23 | Now Beverley and Peter have set up the Thomas Appeal . |
| 24 | Many subsequent critics have taken up the point made by radical blacks at the time that this was a romantic and pastoral view of the rural South , but several early critics hailed the film as a brilliantly realistic depiction of a whole section of American society . |
| 25 | These doctors have given up the notion of being specialists and of being involved in hospital medicine but the idea of coping with the medical problem is still a potent force in their ideologies . |
| 26 | Although their public language is guarded , the Americans have pointed up the Belgian and Irish beef industries as examples of general hormone abuse . |
| 27 | He quotes approvingly an anonymous ‘ youth ’ who believes that gay men have given up the battle between men : ‘ they 've submitted to men … . |
| 28 | ‘ His men have rounded up the children from Ashbrook — ‘ t is one of my lord 's villages a mile or so from here , ’ he explained when Isabel made a small querying sound . |
| 29 | Far from feeling second best , the Mexicans have taken up the challenge with vigour : ‘ We aim to be a cultural invasion of Frankfurt and the rest of Germany ’ , said the Mexican commissioner , Eugenia Meyer . |
| 30 | The 210 children have taken up the panto 's challenge and sought the advice of professional builders so they can construct Wendy 's house in brick in their school yard . |