Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [to-vb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To limit the posterns of the court to a single ingress and to keep up the stock of horses , swans and bees . |
| 2 | I pinned it to the corkboard with a red drawing pin and a light heart , and went upstairs again to change back into jodhpur boots to deal with the terrain and to pick up the map and the compass in case I could n't find the trail . |
| 3 | At Ferrari , the only effort to put things right is either to find the scapegoat or to cover up the mistake and deny it ever happened . |
| 4 | The object was not to provide refreshment but to hold up the party for two or three minutes in order to get the press into position . |
| 5 | An alternative explanation lies in Dr Mahatir 's ‘ look East ’ policy , designed to break away — finally and for ever — from the colonial past and to speed up the pace of change by harnessing the vitality of Japanese firms . |
| 6 | The objective this time is to shift down the injections line or to shift up the withdrawals line by the full amount of the inflationary gap . |
| 7 | On April 22 , 1991 , Ryzkhov 's successor as Prime Minister , Pavlov , presented to the USSR Supreme Soviet an emergency anti-crisis programme designed to stabilize the economy by the end of the year and to speed up the transition to a market economy . |
| 8 | While not everyone welcomed the regime with open arms , it is opportune to reflect on its effectiveness and to weigh up the costs and benefits of regulation of the profession by the profession . |