Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] up the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The implementation of the recommendation to set up the Crown Court is recounted in a later chapter , but we should note here the implications for the Lord Chancellor .
2 Indeed , the other EC countries put little pressure on the British delegation to speed up the ERM process , concluding that the time for concessions to Mrs Thatcher 's doubts was now over .
3 Indeed , the other EC countries put little pressure on the British delegation to speed up the ERM process , concluding that the time for concessions to Mrs Thatcher 's doubts was now over .
4 All this was particularly noticeable in the summer of 1992 when billions of pounds ( some say as much as £20 billion ) of foreign reserves ( £7.2 billion of which had been especially borrowed for the purpose ) were spent by the Bank of England in a vain attempt to prop up the exchange value of sterling .
5 Press the ? key to bring up the help file for a currently selected menu option .
6 After all , ’ he continued , deftly manipulating half a loaf of garlic bread to sop up the tomato juice on his last platter , ‘ you never saw anybody fat come out of Auschwitz . ’
7 In 1965 Lloyd went back to being Student 's editor , and Jim Haynes headed south to set up the London Traverse Company at the Jeanetta Cochrane Theatre in Holborn .
8 Mr Ian Prestt , director-general of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds , said the most contentious part of the bill was the proposal to break up the Nature Conservancy Council .
9 The move to set up the staff commission comes after local authorities asked that a body be set up to protect the interests of employees .
10 Everyone made it back to the rendezvous where they laid up for the day , returning in the evening to pick up the SBS group which had managed to deal with the radio station .
11 Cordial relations between the socialist General Workers ' Union ( UGT ) and the PSOE were resumed at a meeting , the first for five years , between UGT secretary-general Nicolás Redondo and PSOE deputy secretary-general Alfonso Guerra on Sept. 30 following a longstanding rift over government economic policy [ see pp. 36359-60 for Redondo 's 1988 refusal to take up the UGT seat on the PSOE executive ] .
12 First in line is the guitar input , with a manual channel select button , offering a boost facility to pep up the input level by 10dB for guitars with weak pickups .
13 The catering assistants started to wind down the evening 's proceedings , and Katrina and one of the other girls ( Bridget ) came out from around the back to tidy up the customer area .
14 But only a week ago she clashed with Mr Smith after he snubbed her request to wind up the Commons debate on the pit closures .
15 ON January 13 the Turks will stop the flow of the mighty Euphrates river for a month to build up the water level in their new Ataturk dam ; fine , except that the Euphrates flows into Iraq which needs the water for irrigation and electricity .
16 Reports were carried by Agence-France Presse on May 1 of heavy fighting around Saa'da involving Moslem tribes opposed to unity , and by the UK newspaper the Independent on May 12 suggesting that Saudi Arabia was fomenting this resistance to hold up the unity process [ but see p. 37266 for official Saudi position welcoming unification ] .
17 In 1979 widespread disruptive action led the then Labour government to set up the May Inquiry , intended to be a major review of the entire prison system ( May , 1979 ) .
18 The decision was clearly a response to events at the Sept. 7-18 congress of the Congolese Trade Union Confederation , a specialized organ of the PCT , when delegates challenged the government to speed up the democratization process ( already agreed in principle by the PCT in July — see p. 37602 ) .
19 When mortality for both sexes in infancy and childhood was great , as it was at the beginning of the century , it did not take long for a cohort to advance up the age scale before females outnumbered males .
20 In the effort to spice up the Enya alliance , some journalists have made a meal out of ‘ menage a trois ’ speculation .
21 It needs regular , graded , progressive training to build up the muscle power and gradually improve cardiac output .
22 Slime ball supremo Lloyd Grossman scans the boudoirs of the rich and famous in THROUGH THE KEYHOLE , with David Frost on hand to keep up the grease quotient .
23 Success came when he defeated the SDP in 1987 by a slim majority to take up the Stockton South seat .
24 ‘ Do it right the first time , ’ is probably the best and shortest way to sum up the quality improvement process .
25 This consists in part of literally ‘ moving mountains ’ in order to fill up the water meadow .
26 Many vice-chancellors believed that the universities were being run down ‘ in order to build up the state system of higher education of colleges and polytechnics , headed by the Council for National Academic Awards ’ .
27 Rediagramming of units , and the retention of old DMUs for many years longer than originally planned in order to keep up the fleet size to meet this new demand , have enabled the worst of the overcrowding to be contained , though there are at the time of writing ( 1989 ) stili several tight spots to be dealt with in certain areas at peak times .
28 At first glance , it would seem logical to add as much salt and glucose to the solution as possible in order to speed up the rehydration process .
29 It was only a matter of time before somebody thought of seeding Antarctic atmosphere to plug up the ozone hole .
30 As usual , Maria Grazia answered and then yelled to his mother to pick up the extension phone by her chair , in the deep underwater gloom of the living room .
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