Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Made a vain attempt to tidy up the room , which was already looking like a heavy-metal combat zone , and took himself off for a shower . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | MR SMITH savaged the Tories for wasting £1 billion in their failed bid to prop up the pound on Black Wednesday . |
| 4 | Mr Lamont 's squandering of £1 billion in his vain bid to prop up the pound has not helped . |
| 5 | Success came when he defeated the SDP in 1987 by a slim majority to take up the Stockton South seat . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It would require suicidal altruism to take up the cudgels for the Palestinians . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And usually a loaf of fresh bread to make up the weight . |
| 11 | Throughout the first three decades of our post-imperial era , equipment-cost inflation has outstripped monetary inflation , and there has been insufficient growth in the British economy to make up the difference . |
| 12 | Public subsidy may therefore be desirable , but the public commitment to pick up the bills requires public monitoring to ensure that the monopolist continues to minimize costs and produce efficiently . |
| 13 | ( Serve with brown rice to mop up the juices . ) |
| 14 | Nor , more modestly , does it provide any reason why the Treasury , responsible for the ultimate public obligation to pick up the bill for public bodies which can not be allowed to default , should exercise a prudential interest in its performance . |
| 15 | ( b ) he persistently withdraws or withholds services reasonably required for the occupation of the premises in question as a residence , and ( in either case ) he knows , or has reasonable cause to believe , that the conduct is likely to cause the residential occupier to give up the occupation of the whole or part of the premises or to refrain from exercising any right or pursuing any remedy in respect of the whole or part of the premises . |
| 16 | An increasing imbalance between accumulation and supplies of additional labour requires the faster scrapping of old plant to speed up the transfer of workers to new means of production . |
| 17 | The waiter placed her coffee down on one of the small tables with a flourish , then whisked another chair from an empty table to make up the numbers . |
| 18 | It went down well , with dry bread to mop up the water . |
| 19 | Unleaded petrol is now widely available and it makes sense environmentally and financially to take this easy opportunity to clean up the atmosphere , and make our cities safer places for our children . |
| 20 | Restructuring of the Atomic Energy Authority would have to be done , but there was concern whether it would be able to find enough non-nuclear work to take up the slack . |
| 21 | It is this increase in oxygen that provides the extra fuel to burn up the food in our internal fire . |
| 22 | When Lubbock was returned to Parliament in 1881 , he persuaded Gladstone 's Liberal government to take up the cause . |
| 23 | It was a simple matter to walk up the body of the tree and swing over the top . |
| 24 | It was only a matter of time before somebody thought of seeding Antarctic atmosphere to plug up the ozone hole . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 ? |
| 27 | 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 ? ’ |
| 28 | They decided that , in addition to the traditional , and largely vain , efforts to curb drug production , there is an urgent need to step up the offensive from the other end of the drugs trail . |
| 29 | Stir in 175–225g/6–8oz light muscovado sugar plus a tablespoon or two of rum , brandy or Cointreau , if you like — a shop-bought jar will benefit from a little alcohol to pep up the flavour . |
| 30 | Crusty bread is an ideal accompaniment to mop up the juices . |