Example sentences of "[noun] be [to-vb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another good way of obtaining animals from a pond is to scoop up the surface layers of soft mud from the bottom-use the net ( carefully ! ) , a small shovel or a large spoon . |
| 2 | The purpose of critical appraisal is to show up the effects of a proposal before time and effort are invested in putting an idea into action . |
| 3 | The intention is to speed up the taking of kick-offs and to stop the time wasting practice of kicking the ball dead instead of keeping it in play from the kick-off . |
| 4 | The result was to force up the price both of renting and of buying land . |
| 5 | Radio Bangladesh quoted an official spokesman as saying on Aug. 10 that the independent Mecca-based Islamic body , Rabitah , had agreed to fund half the estimated US$50,000,000 cost of repatriation and rehousing , and Pakistan was to make up the rest . |
| 6 | The overall effect was to speed up the disintegration of the larger estates , but to leave the smallholdings virtually untouched but constantly threatened . |
| 7 | Another effect of the flare is to wind up the blade speed which helps to give a greater safety margin . |
| 8 | The Rogich plan is to sharpen up the focus , as well as the pace . |
| 9 | ‘ My job is to back up the man with the ball and I always try to do that to the best of my ability . |
| 10 | ‘ Their central aim is to split up the railway pension fund under the cover of privatisation and take half of it — more than £4 billion — straight into the Treasury . ’ |
| 11 | The campaign is up and running-the aim is to link up the campaigns already flourishing in different districts . |
| 12 | The announcement was made at the opening of the ‘ Spassenje ’ ( Rescue ) charity appeal , whose aim is to make up the shortfall of $15 million dollars still needed to complete the gallery 's reconstruction . |
| 13 | When reclaiming such land , it may be necessary to provide the first pioneer crops with a direct injection of nutrients through chemical fertilizers but it should always be remembered that the aim is to build up the life in the soil so that it can provide its own fertility within the land potential . |
| 14 | Cable & Wireless Plc has cut its stake in Digital Telecommunications Philippines Inc to 25% from 40% because of problems at another local affiliate : the company recently won a contract to operate a state-run telephone system in Luzon island ; an unidentified foreign group is to take up the stake . |
| 15 | it 's a very sad day for me with my last test flight , I started here in nineteen eighty three and my first job was to clean up the station after the air show |
| 16 | Believing that artisans should be well housed , his last initiative was to set up the Society for the Promotion of Industrial Villages in 1884 . |
| 17 | The whole trust of the reforms is to break up the N H S piece by piece . |
| 18 | The parish schoolmasters are to make up the lists , and I am sure they will oblige . |
| 19 | The declared aim of such finance pirates is to break up the giants , and sell them off bit by bit . |
| 20 | Motorola 's current role is to open up the merchant market for PowerPCs , selling to those who wo n't buy from IBM , the chip 's originator . |
| 21 | Motorola 's current role is to open up the merchant market for PowerPCs , selling to those that wo n't buy from IBM , the chip 's originator . |
| 22 | The second reason for the dispatch of Dzerzhinsky to Siberia was to clear up the situation after the Civil War , and to deal with Siberian peasant revolts . |
| 23 | We might note the irony at this point : the purpose of experimentation was to clear up the confusions , contradictions , and conflicting advice of common sense . |
| 24 | There is no tort or crime , as there would be if the police were to beat up the suspect or wrongly apprehend him or her in the first place . |
| 25 | Her new brief is to build up the NCB 's department . |
| 26 | But not everyone here thinks the answer is to dig up the fields and destroy the character of the community . |
| 27 | His only answer was to pick up the knife and hand it to me . |
| 28 | The effect of removing noise is to clean up the image while the effect of removing local variability is to smooth the boundaries and emphasize the regional pattern present in the image . |
| 29 | By that date , he was an ailing man , and apart from his routine duties , his first tasks were to clear up the muddles of the last few years and re-establish an acceptable procedure for future episcopal elections , investitures , and acts of homage . |
| 30 | One way is to crawl up the staircase of preferment on your belly ; the other way is to kick them in the teeth . |