Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Euro-MP in plea for cash to shore up sea defences |
| 2 | This piece of writing sums up Owen 's feelings of war and his poems , we see , are somewhat warnings of things to come . |
| 3 | In another part of its robots programme , the Department of Industry puts up cash to help firms to pay consultants who advise them on robot applications . |
| 4 | The CSO 's new director , Bill McLennan , said the changes were not only part of general tidying up operation to standardise distribution but also to prevent leaks . |
| 5 | Unaccountably , a tide of colour crept up Juliet 's neck into her cheeks . |
| 6 | ‘ All that kind of thing takes up weekends . ’ |
| 7 | I reckoned I might still escape detection , however , if I ran on my toes in a sort of hearty limbering up exercise . |
| 8 | Most distinctive feature is graceful dipping flight , often stooping to surface of water to pick up insects , but very rarely diving in . |
| 9 | Banking — Deposits — Deposit taking business — Fund to compensate depositors in insolvent bank — Original depositors assigning sums to third parties after presentation of petition to wind up bank — Whether assignee of part of original deposit ‘ depositor ’ — Banking Act 1987 ( c. 22 ) , s. 58(1) — Banking Act 1987 ( Meaning of Deposit ) Order 1991 ( S.I . |
| 10 | This sort of interviewing could well be characteristic of a community survey where the researcher went from person to person linking up kinship networks , occupational groups , recreational groups , religious bodies , and so on . |
| 11 | We take community policing to be a style which emphasizes the development of good relations between police and community , normally via active police involvement in , and contact with , the local community , and by deploying manpower in such a way that officers patrol a ‘ beat ’ on foot in order to build up familiarity with the local area . |
| 12 | I appreciate that the legislation , as drawn , enables my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State to draw up regulations which could redefine the 25 per cent . |
| 13 | The US Secretary of State set up SEATO — the South East Asia Treaty Organisation — as a forum for discussion in South East Asia , in order to show it was not wielding its power without consultation , to try to help sort things out . |
| 14 | Debate over attempts to limit the number of appeals allowed to prisoners on death row in order to speed up executions affected both courts and Congress following the recommendation of a special five-judge judicial committee in September 1989 that the federal law be amended to allow states the option of permitting prisoners only one round of appeals . |
| 15 | On 9 March , Coleman received a detailed encrypted message from Control setting up Operation Shakespeare , clearing his visit to Lebanon and instructing him to carry out the mission as Thomas Leavy , of Westinghouse Group W News . |
| 16 | Brother turns against brother as the devotees of the Cult of Pleasure stir up trouble in every city and town . |
| 17 | Like Eddie Bleasdale , Xionics 's chairman , Mike Bevan , is keen that his firm should concentrate on new products , rather than spend a lot of time setting up mechanisms for producing and selling goods in massive numbers . |
| 18 | However , I do accept that occasionally it 's necessary to promote a volunteer in order to keep up morale in the ranks . |
| 19 | CACI have used a gravity model in order to build up catchment areas around each defined shopping centre . |
| 20 | Lack of funding holds up railway upgrading |
| 21 | For them , the change in leadership and the promise of reform opened up opportunities denied to the Red Guard generation and they did not want to jeopardise them by becoming too involved in a politically orientated movement . |
| 22 | On reaching corner of hedge , right of way proceeds quarter left , aiming for left-hand side of small conifer plantation just in front of which cross footbridge and proceed to left of plantation to pick up track leading uphill to village of Bag Enderby ( a ) . |
| 23 | By the late 1920s the nationalist government had achieved tariff autonomy and an agreement in principle to give up extraterritoriality , yet enclaves of foreign settlers , foreign interests and foreign troops ( nominally for protection of the first two ) remained . |
| 24 | WWF protest at plan to break up NCC |