Example sentences of "[prep] cleaning up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The money is a small fraction of the estimated $1100 million cost of cleaning up the stricken reactor . |
| 2 | Lisa Buckingham writes : Chemical companies have finally secured insurance to help them pay the costs of cleaning up the long term damage they do to the environment . |
| 3 | The National Consumer Council has called for industry and motorists to pay more towards the cost of cleaning up the British water supply . |
| 4 | The German Environment Minister , Klaus Töpfer , has announced that 15 billion Deutschmarks ( £6.3 bn ) will be made available for cleaning up the estimated 70,000 hazardous waste dumps in former East Germany . |
| 5 | The equivalent of US$2 million was allocated last year for cleaning up the polluted areas , but specialists say this is not nearly enough . |
| 6 | And the final year of the company 's three-year commitment to cleaning up the Alaskan coast is about to begin . |
| 7 | It seems that we would be much better off if we spent money not on constructing a barrage but on cleaning up the various sewage works that I have castigated over the years . |
| 8 | In the course of doing so money will have to be spent on cleaning up the Six ( and , no doubt , eventually , the Soviet Union , too ) to ensure that they make respectable cohabitants of the new Europe which various leaders from Gorbachev to Delors to François Mitterrand have envisaged . |
| 9 | The two countries also agreed to joint projects aimed at cleaning up the Baltic waters . |