Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [to-vb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In May of this year , we were pressed by Amnesty International and other refugee groups to speed up the process of determination , and the Bill before the House , which will be debated next week , sets out a scheme that will allow determination to be decided within a period of three months . |
| 2 | ( Serve with plenty of Greek or pitta bread to mop up the sauces and a green salad . ) |
| 3 | First in line is the guitar input , with a manual channel select button , offering a boost facility to pep up the input level by 10dB for guitars with weak pickups . |
| 4 | In this way , the new church will recover one of the prime New Testament gifts to build up the church . |
| 5 | A little water ( 3 gallons ) was syphoned off every day , and a larger amount every two weeks , using a gravel vacuum to stir up the gravel and remove the rubbish gathered therein . |
| 6 | Roberts and his cohorts have persuaded venture capital specialist Candover to stump up the lion 's share of £9m for shares in this potentially growth business , and the Bank of Scotland to provide £8m of loans and working capital facilties . |
| 7 | You will not be at a level a good deal lower than the surrounding ground , so you will have to lay a hardcore base to build up the foundations to suit the path material and method of laying . |
| 8 | Realising that the Australians were not so foolish as to engage in pitched battles , whatever their masters decreed , the Japanese sent a picked force of guerrilla fighters to take up the chase where the major columns left off . |
| 9 | After all , ’ he continued , deftly manipulating half a loaf of garlic bread to sop up the tomato juice on his last platter , ‘ you never saw anybody fat come out of Auschwitz . ’ |
| 10 | If necessary use the decision-making exercise to weigh up the pros and cons of closely competing options as described previously . |
| 11 | Others fear that it will contain metals especially copper from the pipes and boiler , and choose to boil drinking water to bring up the temperature . |
| 12 | Such surveys , whether by sea or land , again required not merely naturalists to accompany them , but museum staff to write up the collections and make the knowledge public . |
| 13 | The merger plan was again abandoned , and Wilson began bankruptcy proceedings to wind up the BFs . |
| 14 | Our perception of spermatozoa was changed forever by Woody Allen 's impersonation of one in Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex , and University of Pennsylvania are giving substance to his fantasies , putting the poor little tadpoles through an arduous obstacle course to step up the process of survival of the fittest : according to Prodigy Services Co , the mad scientists have created a new class of silicon chip that can be used for analyzing sperm samples and providing a venue for fertilisation ; the technology uses microscopic obstacle courses inside a silicon wafer to weed out unhealthy sperm , and has been used successfully to fertilise a mouse egg ; the chips are etched with a virtual theme park of twisting channels , forests of columns , and other features designed to ensure only the strongest of sperm reach their goal , with some passages so small that only a single cell can pass ; the researchers have not yet applied for approval to test human fertilisation using the chip , but say that could happen within the next 12 months — Brave New World , or the embodiment of virtual sex . |
| 15 | It could only be left to each Group Organiser to weigh up the pros and cons of the situation . |
| 16 | Yet although the cherubic muse blowing its horn for the brave new world seemed to the Festival staff to sum up the kind of things they were trying to say about the EIF , there remained one potent snag . |
| 17 | I went to see them about this but they told me it was up to the social security people to make up the difference . |
| 18 | The latter two conditions proved severe stumbling blocks such that the Norwegians were looking towards alternative means of marketing their hydrocarbon reserves to keep up the revenues to which the Norwegian economy has grown accustomed , well before the Sleipner deal was called off . |
| 19 | In any case , it was open to the Education Committee to take up the question of Village school again , deliberating whether a new closure order could be justified on educational grounds . |
| 20 | Their top instructors are holding a one day campaign to sharpen up the County 's road sense . |
| 21 | Cardiff saw its hideously burnt and decomposed head turn to look up the stairwell at them , just as Jimmy and Rohmer heaved the filing cabinet over . |
| 22 | The City fears a Bank Rate rise to prop up the pound if the French vote no to the Maastricht treaty on Sunday . |
| 23 | Further improvements at Bank Top are already on the drawing board and BR plans to improve the northern approach to the station and move engineering sheds to tidy up the area . |
| 24 | It was the custom of the train crews to make up the fish trains from empty stock located in the New Clee sidings , between Grimsby and Cleethorpes . |
| 25 | Other ideas to free the town 's roads include contraflow lanes , which allow buses to go against the main traffic flow , and giving buses priority at busy junctions and traffic lights to speed up the service . |
| 26 | One solution is to set the glass back as much as a foot and to use thick , matured timber mullions to break up the surface . |
| 27 | Leading his daughter , he reiterated his promise to come in after morning surgery to pick up the squirrel and return the cage later , and when the door closed Sophie turned to Joanna . |
| 28 | BOGOTA ( Reuter ) — The Colombian government said it had rejected an offer last year from drug traffickers to give up the drug trade in exchange for not being extradited to the US , and firmly ruled out any dialogue with the traffickers . |
| 29 | The shore boys were ready for us with slides and ropes , and the local corporation carthorses were ready to be harnessed to the capstan ropes to pull up the beach the Jim and Eliza . |
| 30 | The farm reckons it took twenty man hours to clean up the strawberry patch . |