Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] up the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first attempt to drive up the cost of travelling by road brought down the government . |
| 2 | As I said , it is a pleasure to speak in the debate , despite the rhetoric and the attempt to whip up the masses outside the House by saying that the Labour party comprises anti-patriotic pacifists . |
| 3 | Any attempt to open up the convolutions of farm policy to public scrutiny is bound to be seen as a threat to those with an interest in the status quo . |
| 4 | I am looking forward to the next stage of Tencel and we are already working with Fibers and Research to set up the teams for a new project . |
| 5 | The gang abducted the eighteen year old daughter , and forced her at gunpoint to open up the bank in Bloxham where she worked . |
| 6 | They made no attempt to cover up the disagreement with beautiful words . |
| 7 | Does the Minister agree that he and his colleagues are responsible , first , for refusing to take action to clear up the fiasco on the issue of computer records being used , secondly for refusing to abolish the 20 per cent . |
| 8 | Request to consider action to clear up the patch at the top of Baberton Loan on the Lanark Road . |
| 9 | MR SMITH savaged the Tories for wasting £1 billion in their failed bid to prop up the pound on Black Wednesday . |
| 10 | It would require suicidal altruism to take up the cudgels for the Palestinians . |
| 11 | It is no good to tie up the property by a series of limited interests for as long as the law will allow , if the bulk of the capital will have disappeared to the Revenue authorities in the meantime . |
| 12 | ‘ Brian Gayle did n't defend well for the first goal and Gage did a Val Parnell act in the middle of the park to set up the lad for his second . ’ |
| 13 | But immediately the plan to carve up the boardroom of Bell Resources ran into trouble with Australia 's corporate watchdog , the National Companies and Securities Commission ( NCSC ) . |
| 14 | Vacuum cleaner ( linked to one — a bun ) : There is nothing particularly unusual about using a vacuum cleaner to pick up the crumbs of a bun so I decided to picture a bun decorated with a vacuum cleaner on top . |
| 15 | This led in June 1991 to an agreed plan to split up the practice into three : the Isle of Wight , Southampton and Salisbury , and Witney . |
| 16 | Now , what we 'll need to get you doing , is some exercise to strengthen up the muscle across there . |
| 17 | It was to take a year and a half to build up the momentum for the Hot Autumn . |
| 18 | The Minister 's attitude reveals a clear determination to break up the system of comprehensive education in this country and replace it with something different . |
| 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 | He attributed his gaining ten ‘ O ’ levels , four ‘ A ’ levels , a psychology degree and ( in process ) a Masters degree to his own ‘ determination to take up the challenge of the idea of the black kid who 's got no brains . ’ |
| 21 | The British Boxing Board of Control , in a commendable exercise to shore up the credibility of the sport yesterday , questioned the plan for Benn to challenge one of boxing 's legends , Roberto Duran , for his middleweight title . |
| 22 | The ‘ showdown ’ strategy has been agreed by the Major Energy Users ' Council , which includes companies such as engineering group GKN , Blue Circle Industries and British Coal as part of a ‘ high profile ’ campaign to step up the pressure on government and the regulator . |
| 23 | In order for the vast pressure vessel ( the one we had seen being manufactured in France ) to negotiate the narrow village streets , it was necessary for the Board to buy up the frontages of over thirty houses . |
| 24 | It does not take much imagination to conjure up the kinds of arguments that EDF will introduce should it wish to inhibit serious competition to itself . |
| 25 | It is important to note that , since the system began in the late 1920s , there has never been a significant move to split up the schools for use by the separate denominations , something which would have been feasible in the larger towns . |
| 26 | One reason is the need to clean up the mess in Eastern Europe left by Soviet military installations and sloppily run Communist mines and factories . |
| 27 | Then the breakers were all astern and Terrie was coming round to starboard to motor up the back of the reef . |
| 28 | Despite Buckley 's reluctance to play up the siege of Derry as a key myth and his preference for general categories of interpretation derived from various historical experiences , it does seem that the siege has particular significance . |
| 29 | She did not believe Labour was now the party of home ownership , strong defence and financial rectitude : ‘ If it 's that easy for the Labour leader to give up the principles in which he does believe , wo n't it be even easier for him to give up the principles in which he does not believe ? |
| 30 | In a personal attack on Mr Kinnock — a prime target for the Conservative counter-offensive — she added : ‘ If it 's that easy for the Labour leader to give up the principles in which he does believe , wo n't it be even easier for him to give up the principles in which he does not believe ? ’ |