Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [vb pp] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | under Labour waiting lists have gone up every time we 've had a Labour administration . |
| 2 | Premiums have gone up an average 17 per cent this year . |
| 3 | 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- . |
| 4 | These manufacturers have pushed up the resolution a little by breaking the display into submatrices , addressed separately , but connected to give a unified picture . |
| 5 | In many cases the becak drivers have put up a fight to prevent their livelihood from being carted off . |
| 6 | Her parents have set up a trust fund and this competition . |
| 7 | ‘ The new production quotas have stirred up a hornet 's nest — and that 's without the added difficulty of a flu epidemic . ’ |
| 8 | The proceeds have shored up the balance sheet but the trading picture is grim . |
| 9 | The largest companies have drawn up a criteria which demand inter alia that new book purchases must be based on a stock turn of one year ( in other words , the whole print run has to sell out within one year of US publication ) and that the projected gross margin must not be less than 50% . |
| 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 | TWO Lanarkshire businessmen have set up a reprographics firm which aims to compete with Middle and Far East firms for orders originating in Scotland , writes John Hatfield . |
| 13 | Indeed , to the extent that inflationary expectations have built up a momentum of their own that it regards as excessive , the government may be forced to adopt demand management policies which aim to raise the unemployment rate above the natural rate so as to throw the process outlined above into reverse gear . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Occasionally governments have opened up a discussion by publishing a ‘ Green Paper ’ which set out alternative possibilities . |
| 17 | Top equity and foreign exchange dealers have picked up a minimum of £200,000 before bonuses and perks — the real whiz-kids making upwards of £300,000 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Equity investors have made up the difference . |
| 20 | Although managers have drawn up a list of personalities who could be invited to open the centre , identities were not revealed . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , Field & Trek have opened up a branch in the High Street . |
| 22 | Officers have dug up the foundations of a garage in Goddard Avenue , Swindon , in a resumed search for Mrs Main . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Executives from over 300 North West firms have taken up the Challenge this year |
| 25 | The leases have brewed up a storm in Darlington as landlords say they could mean the end of many traditional pubs . |
| 26 | We have a report that four unidentified persons have set up a rocket launcher two hundred yards west of seventeenth green . |
| 27 | At the other end of the scale , however , our machines have picked up a host of animal noises at frequencies above the range of our ears , called ultrasound . |
| 28 | Paul and Pauline Lavery have set up a branch of the National Meningitis Trust after losing toddler Ian . |
| 29 | TWO royal servants have cheered up the Queen 's ‘ annus horribilis ‘ by getting married . |
| 30 | 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 . |