Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [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 | In this way , the new church will recover one of the prime New Testament gifts to build up the church . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The merger plan was again abandoned , and Wilson began bankruptcy proceedings to wind up the BFs . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The farm reckons it took twenty man hours to clean up the strawberry patch . |
| 13 | So an optimistic note for the pub trade , but a pessimistic one for Oxfordshire 's only two-man brewery , because it 's struggling to survive against tough competition from the major breweries and the are concerned that the Government proposals to shake up the brewing industry wo n't really help them . |
| 14 | In 1848 , Engels had viewed Europe as a general , deploying as his armies subject peoples to lock up the gendarme of Europe , Tsarist Russia . |
| 15 | In 1910 a proposal for a chain of telegraph stations to link up the empire was submitted to the British government . |
| 16 | These include : defining suitable values for the number of simulations required in a GIS environment rather than a statistical hypothesis-testing one ; assessing the utility of kernel estimators as an approximation that may allow smaller numbers of simulations to be used ; investigating the possibility of predicting the final output regions without performing large numbers of simulations ; and investigating possible hardware solutions to speed up the simulation process . |
| 17 | Utah 's economic planners want aerospace , bio-medical and computing firms to take up the slack . |
| 18 | Coun Carr said they had no option but to ask pass users to make up the difference . |
| 19 | The evaluators found no evidence of systematic inservice activities to follow up the project in the school itself , although at this time of industrial action such events were conspicuous by their absence in all the schools studied . |
| 20 | Alternatively , why not turn to male school leavers to make up the difference ? |
| 21 | The most recent idea was making a path at the side of their home incorporating large circles made of paving setts to break up the monotony of a straight path . |
| 22 | Jane Kennedy ( Labour ) pressed him on the recent article in the Independent , which stated that ministers had privately said they intended to issue new guidelines to family doctors to tighten up the eligibility criteria for the benefit . |