Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] up the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A government-commissioned report has calculated the cost of cleaning up the severely polluted industrial areas of the former East Germany at 17.8 billion deutschmarks . |
| 2 | There are ways of plotting the profile of the gore , and the mathematically minded will no doubt enjoy a computer exercise of setting up the progressively diminishing diameters , and the calculation of gore width at 10% stages from base to apex . |
| 3 | More than just buying an operating system and securing a future for Novell , Noorda — a man held in high regard by a wide cross section of industry executives — takes on the expectations of all those seeing him as a Moses figure capable of stitching up the highly personalised wounds inflicted during the Unix wars and the aborted peace attempts . |
| 4 | Under this , the EPA is responsible for cleaning up the most contaminated sites and then recovering the cost from the bodies held responsible for the contamination . |
| 5 | She advises her clients to involve the users in producing a list of the problems they are expecting an accounting system to solve , in addition to drawing up the more traditional features ‘ hit-list ’ . |