Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] be [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A group of health authority staff , council officers and community workers are drawing up guidelines to help cut accidents by a third by the year 2000 . |
| 2 | Over the last year an extra 29,000 inpatients and 8,500 day case patients were treated up 6pc on the previous year 's total of 588,000 . |
| 3 | Also Bosanquet has argued vigorously for over a decade — and has not been alone — that this suggests that younger age cohorts are growing up fitter and will not necessarily need such varied and prolonged care in the future . |
| 4 | Some Age Concern groups are setting up schemes for home care , in cooperation with the local authority . |
| 5 | FUNERAL insurance plans are going up market . |
| 6 | Gulf oil states are stepping up production of a " green " petrol additive in an effort to meet the requirements of the US Clean Air Act , which demands higher levels of oxygen in petrol . |
| 7 | And the bus fares is going up Monday ? |
| 8 | But despite the difficulties of reaching the camps , relief workers and supplies are getting through , A doctor and a nurse from the British charity Oxfam are already at Ebenat camp , and Danish health workers are setting up health services for the 5000 people there . |
| 9 | When I lived in South London unscrupulous property developers were buying up the-freeholds of converted houses at auctions and raising the ground rents to astronomical figures in order to force people to sell back their flats to them . |
| 10 | In direct contrast to all this hectic , hedonistic activity , over at the Marquee , The Red House Painters are propping up Belly with weary tenderness . |