Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [to-vb] up [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proposed exploratory research intends to follow up these ideas and to establish tentative assessments of these hypotheses so extending our understanding of effective schools and their long term influence . |
| 2 | Middlesbrough Council wants to buy up 200 properties to clear the area and make a fresh start . |
| 3 | In choosing , Alsys has to weigh up two objectives : which technology has greater market share and is more attractive to third parties and which technology will be the standard internally at Thomson for engineering . |
| 4 | Parker said the group intends to step up this activity until sales levels justify it setting up local operations . |
| 5 | Every year the New York New Music Seminar seems to throw up one track which first flattens the delegates revelling at the local hot-spots , then sends the record companies into chequebook-brandishing overdrive . |
| 6 | For him , critical writing has to take up wider issues than enjoyment of a picture or a sculpture . |
| 7 | Now Argyll plans to drum up more business with in-store dry cleaners and post offices . |
| 8 | This kind of deradicalization usually ends up by disorganizing the working class , since pursuing broad coalitions tends to break up proletarian solidarity and fragment socialism into workers ' particular interests under redistributive capitalism . |
| 9 | Noriega tries to shore up crumbling power base |
| 10 | Meanwhile , his own doomily titled Millennium Fund aims to spruce up historic sites and buildings in preparation — well , for what : just a date on the calendar , or the day of judgment itself ? |
| 11 | AMERICA expects to wake up two days from now to find that it has a new President . |