Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] up the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first attempt to drive up the cost of travelling by road brought down the government . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Then the breakers were all astern and Terrie was coming round to starboard to motor up the back of the reef . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Now that there was no need to keep up the charade of being in love he 'd taken his things along to his old room in another wing . |
| 14 | In 1850 he resigned his curatorship to take up the post of mineral surveyor for New South Wales , an appointment that provoked the hostility of W. B. Clarke [ q.v . ] . |
| 15 | But Mr Kohl 's lack of forthrightness in acting against racist attacks and his reluctance to take up the cause of their victims suggests a chancellor , if not a country , who has yet to come fully to terms with the past . |
| 16 | Peter Zwack , a Hungarian-born millionaire liqueur manufacturer who had renounced United States citizenship to take up the post of Hungary 's ambassador to the USA in September 1990 , was dismissed from the post on April 10 amidst public recriminations with the Hungarian government . |
| 17 | Jessica , after a time , had said she loved him too , and grew quite fascinated by his refusal to bring up the subject of fidelity . |
| 18 | He arranged bridging-loans and a mortgage to make up the price of the tall house with the basement into which she had decided he should move as a lodger , abandoning his awful little bed-sit in Chepstow Road . |
| 19 | Reports said that a Japanese- and Canadian-backed proposal to establish a G-7 working group to follow up the implementation of the latest arms control proposals was opposed by France which was against any move to grant the G-7 a permanent institutional role . |
| 20 | It took two years for the Bureau of the Census to draw up the list of 106m households to which , on March 23rd , it posted its questionnaires . |
| 21 | The study walls are a rich red to pick up the burgundy of the tapestry curtains . |
| 22 | A final chance to pick up the kind of luxuries not often seen on sale nowadays . |
| 23 | The guides were hot and thirsty , but as Miss Lodsworth went to the kitchen tap for water to fill up the jugs of concentrated lemon squash , only a trickle came out of the tap . |
| 24 | A GUN collector has been ordered by a court to give up the arsenal of weapons he had gathered since he was 16 . |
| 25 | The Shannon Development Company had a ‘ Matchmaker ’ service to match up the capacities of local suppliers with the needs of industrial purchasers , the Irish Development Authority ‘ Project Identification Unit ’ supplied local firms with information on the purchasing requirements of the multinationals , and the Irish Goods Council did the same thing . |
| 26 | Jordan temporarily closes its border to hold up the influx of refugees . |
| 27 | This meeting resulted in a government pledge to speed up the meeting of the revueltos ' demands . |
| 28 | The jockey managed to spur Dawn Run to one last effort , switching her from the inside to rally up the centre of the course . |
| 29 | The king 's willingness to build up the power of his trusted allies , it is argued , set up tensions not only between the beneficiaries and those excluded from power , but within the circle of royal supporters itself . |
| 30 | The king 's willingness to build up the power of his trusted allies , it is argued , set up tensions not only between the beneficiaries and those excluded from power , but within the circle of royal supporters itself . |