Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] up [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two special spending programmes , worth ¥23.9 trillion ( $114 billion ) , announced in the past year , have helped ward off full-blown recession , and the government has propped up the stockmarket by shovelling post-office savings money into it . |
| 2 | Next door has given up a right of way that goes nowhere . |
| 3 | Even Japan has given up the fight in some market areas where they used to be world leaders : And even the new industrial nations , in their turn , will eventually be undercut and have to move on : To what ? |
| 4 | If we examine their structure , we shall perceive the way in which the wishful purpose that is at work has mixed up the material of which they are built , has rearranged it and formed it into a new whole . |
| 5 | The parade converges on Place St Maur des Fosses to hear a few words from the local Euro-MP , because the EC has stumped up a bit of money to make it a European clowns ' convention this year . |
| 6 | This is partly because Labour has picked up a mood of unease about the city among its residents , fearful of Frankfurt taking over its role as Europe 's financial capital , and jealous of Paris 's self-confidence and infrastructure . |
| 7 | ‘ My fitness has picked up a lot in the last two or three weeks and I 'm kicking a ball and running fine , ’ said Owers . |
| 8 | The company has picked up a string of new applications for the manufacturing , financial and education markets to run under the HP MPE/iX operating system . |
| 9 | Martin Birchall has picked up the Photographer of the Year award for the second time . |
| 10 | He added : ‘ He vehemently opposes active regional policies , he has wound up a lot of the government 's aid to the North and during his term as Industry Secretary he has done nothing to create new technology and skills or back new firms and enterprise in Hartlepool . ’ |
| 11 | This has speeded up the flow of information on companies to the regions . |
| 12 | The vote on Mr Craxi has speeded up the disintegration of Italy 's scandal-tainted parties . |
| 13 | The pressure to make cars lighter , and so more fuel-efficient , has pushed up the proportion of plastic in a typical car , from around 2% of the weight in 1960 to 12% today ( see chart 5 on previous page ) . |
| 14 | Thus , while it is possible to identify liberal catholicism in Ireland from the late nineteenth century to the present , and though there has grown up a climate of liberal dissent and criticism of conservative catholicism , it is still possible to assert the prominence of conservative catholicism , particularly in its alliance with nationalism . |
| 15 | Thus there has grown up an interest in feminist ‘ herstory ’ ; etymologically impossible , the word emphasizes that his-story has been just that — the history of men . |
| 16 | At Leyland , Preston and Chorley a skilled workforce has built up a reputation over many years for producing lorries and buses . |
| 17 | In each case the company has built up a reputation for reliability and high quality . |
| 18 | He has built up a reputation for naïvely self-important pronouncements on the state of the world and for a determined shunning of personal publicity , but circumstances force him to stand by his words when the Evallonian Royalists seek his support . |
| 19 | Indeed , Sally O'Brien 's has built up a reputation as an excellent venue , catering for a variety of musical tastes and keeping Omagh to the forefront when it comes to live music . |
| 20 | Similarly , the MSc/Diploma in Community Education has built up a reputation within the UK but is also strongly supported by agencies funding students from overseas . |
| 21 | Dr Horrobin , himself a former professor of medicine in Montreal , has built up a company with sales of £16m and profits of the order of £6.5m and has plans to bring Efamol to the stockmarket . |
| 22 | To maximise Milan 's chances of doing well in the Italian league , the national cup and the European Cup at the same time , Mr Berlusconi has built up a squad of players that can field two top-rate sides . |
| 23 | Over the centuries carving has built up a range of chisels and gouges , the names of which are as esoteric as the craft itself |
| 24 | In the intervening months the Labour Party has built up a range of policies for education , science and industry which will help Britain build the strong , competitive economy it so desperately needs . |
| 25 | Pittencrieff , which has built up a stake of 19.1 per cent in Aberdeen , has made its offer conditional on Aberdeen 's bid for Brabant failing . |
| 26 | A combination of government secrecy and collective responsibility ( the notion that an individual member must not disagree publicly with a Cabinet decision ) have made it difficult to discover the extent to which cabinets are genuinely collective decision-making bodies , but a succession of leaks and memoirs , such as Richard Crossman 's ( Crossman , 1975–7 ) , has built up a picture of a committee in which genuine debate tends to be restricted to issues that come to assume major political importance for the government . |
| 27 | In five years it has built up a fleet of 65 lorries and 85 trailers , all of them leased . |
| 28 | Sharelink has built up a clientele of about 57,000 in two years . |
| 29 | Regularly , at least one day a week , he goes to one of a few chosen locations to shoot a roll of film and has been doing this now for several years and so has built up a record of places such as Trafalgar Square , Westminster Bridge and the South Bank in London . |
| 30 | Regularly , a least one day a week , he goes to one of a few chosen locations to shoot a roll of film and has been doing this now for several years and so has built up a record of places such as Trafalgar Square , Westminster Bridge and the South Bank in London . |