Example sentences of "[noun sg] clean up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Marland wants action to clean up the mess once and for all . |
| 2 | It took the squadron all the remaining hours of daylight to clean up the airfield . |
| 3 | In early September north European government officials meeting in Ronneby , Sweden , agreed to implement an emergency programme to clean up the Baltic and to halve the inflow of harmful substances by 1995 . |
| 4 | In mid-January 1991 the Indian government announced a programme to clean up the 800-km long Yamuna River which flowed through Delhi before joining the Ganges at Allahabad , and was polluted by ( among other sources ) untreated chemicals from a major oil refinery at Mathura and several tanneries in Agra . |
| 5 | Countries bordering the Baltic have agreed , as a result of the summit , to implement an emergency programme to clean up the Sea , with a target of halving the inflow of harmful substances by 1995 . |
| 6 | According to Santiago O ate , attorney-general for environmental protection , the government has already invested $400 million in a programme to clean up the industrial zone on the US border , home to many of the so-called maquiladora industries , which locate there to take advantage of Mexico 's relatively lax pollution regulations . |
| 7 | Unleaded petrol is now widely available and it makes sense environmentally and financially to take this easy opportunity to clean up the atmosphere , and make our cities safer places for our children . |
| 8 | In the light of concern in the USA about environmental damage from new industrialization in Mexico , the USA on Feb. 25 unveiled an Integrated Border Plan to clean up the polluted US-Mexican 2,560-km frontier , to which the USA would commit $380,000,000 over two years and Mexico $460,000,000 over three years . |
| 9 | One reason is the need to clean up the mess in Eastern Europe left by Soviet military installations and sloppily run Communist mines and factories . |
| 10 | When the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East went on television that night to clean up the mess that his right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition had put him into again , he did not look pleased about it . |
| 11 | In a move that runs counter its commitment to clean up the environment in former East Germany , the German government has agreed to exempt a huge rubbish tip near Schonberg near the Baltic coast from its regulations for a five year period . |
| 12 | These changes , such as the transfer of land to co-operatives and poorer peasants , the literacy campaign and the present drive to clean up the country 's water sources , all demonstrate a thrust of government policy very different from the regime which ended in 1979 . |
| 13 | After 23 days , the government was threatening to send in the army to clean up the streets . |
| 14 | ‘ I think ’ , he says , ‘ that the Germans had convinced themselves that there was something noble in their quest to clean up the world . |
| 15 | THE heavily-polluted Czech town of Chomutov has threatened to call for a general strike unless the government cleans up the air , a town official said yesterday . |
| 16 | A project to clean up the Ganges which had started in 1985 had so far cost US$115 million and was due to be completed by the end of 1991 . |
| 17 | IN AN effort to clean up the mess that has afflicted the Environmental Protection Agency , President Reagan last week pulled an old broom out of the cupboard . |
| 18 | The formation of such a vacuum is a dangerous possibility which will be avoided only if the nations of the world make a concerted effort to clean up the religious chaos once and for all . |
| 19 | This did not dispel rumours , however , that the resignation was part of an effort to clean up the image of the justice system . |
| 20 | There was still an urgent need for an international effort to clean up the Gulf and to study the long-term effects of the spills and the burning , the organization said . |
| 21 | Electromagnetic compatibility cleaning up the airwaves |
| 22 | Well , a world-famous nature reserve is installing an anti-pollution system to clean up the water flowing through it from the River Severn . |
| 23 | He also sees the need to reform the electoral system to clean up the political system . |
| 24 | His size belied the touch of a new born babe and he gently coaxed the life back into the cold toes on my injured foot as a nurse cleaned up the cut hand . |
| 25 | The governments of the Czech Republic , Germany and Poland have signed an agreement to clean up the " Black Triangle " , the border region of the three countries , which is heavily polluted by emissions from power stations and industrial plants . |