Example sentences of "[noun] [num ord] [noun sg] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | IRAQ : Government troops last year stepped up ground and aerial attacks on the southern marshes of Iraq , where tens of thousands of government opponents and military deserters , mainly Shi'a Muslims , remain in hiding . |
2 | When Congress last year held up legislation to give the EPA cabinet status , wanted by Mr Bush , some people saw the vengeful hand of Mr Darman at work . |
3 | By way of example , SunSoft last week picked up Burlington , Massachusetts-based Object Design Inc 's Persistent Storage Manager Engine , an object store technology which will run on top of Solaris . |
4 | Meanwhile , Bristol police last night stepped up security plans for the match . |
5 | Being one of those select few companies that have been able to secure access to initial deliveries of Texas Instruments Inc 's SuperSparc RISC processor ( UX No 384 ) , it is understood that ICL last week totted up numbers required by its various departments and placed its order with TI for the part , which will feature in the DRS6000 workstation range from the fourth quarter . |
6 | Pressure from western governments , unwilling to contemplate another famine on their domestic television screens , forced the junta last year to loosen up control of farms and trade ; but too late . |
7 | ARMED robbers last night held up security guards at Dundee 's head post office and got away with bags containing an unknown sum of money . |