Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] [vb infin] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did , however , recommend the immediate closure of the two oldest of Sosnovy-Bor 's four reactors , and suggested that nearby Western states should make up the energy shortfall to enable this to take place . |
| 2 | Two Irish goals would bring up the century in Charlton 's seven-year reign , during which he has lost only nine of 69 full internationals . |
| 3 | A visit to Helmsley town and castle ( where walkers can take up the Cleveland Way long-distance footpath ) , with a stop-off at Rievaulx Abbey , makes for an enjoyable outing . |
| 4 | As has been noted before , pictures can break up the text , provide ‘ landmarks ’ for the struggling reader , and help in making mental pictures . |
| 5 | Occasionally a book has almost achieved immortality , like John Ruskin 's Stones of Venice , but even more modest books can call up the spirit of a place ; and a private letter may illuminate both a person and a work of art . |
| 6 | Congress and state regulators could speed up the construction of pipelines . |
| 7 | A mind could not be read any more reliably than keys could give up the name of a killer . |
| 8 | Beyond the cathedral and the little churches , visitors can walk up the mountainside to the tiny , medieval village of Scala . |
| 9 | With November came the herring season and the boats would sail up the coast to Torbay , then back around Bigbury Bay and Plymouth , although a few boats continued to fish for pilchards from Looe throughout the Winter . |
| 10 | Forestry workers will clear up the mess made by this latest incident ; relieved that the fire did n't spread to the trees , but worried that the next one might . |
| 11 | The survey ( Survey of Financial Consolidation Systems 1991 ) revealed that organisations can speed up the collection of financial data from their subsidiaries by up to 44% using automatic data capture techniques . |
| 12 | Some individuals can take up the suggestions of the hypnotist to the extent of becoming deaf or blind or unable to smell ; they may withstand pain without a murmur , re-experience being a six-year old , or even forget everything that happened , after hypnosis , until given a prearranged ‘ release ’ signal . |
| 13 | Higher rate taxpayers must top up the tax to 40 per cent . |
| 14 | Such was the popularity of film and such was the reforming zeal of that first decade or so of the twentieth century that there must have been every possibility that other agencies would take up the chance of producing , distributing , and exhibiting films in their own halls . |
| 15 | Oh yes yeah the skippers , the skippers would go up the town cos every time a ship used to come in they got , they got to take the their papers up to the agent , what the papers were I do n't really know might be a manifest or something like that , what they used to do I mean then you had erm and you had different agents now there 's more agents than ever now . |
| 16 | It is possible for the future to appear in the subordinate clause as well : The firm will expand if the investors will put up the money , although the normal pattern is the future tense in the main clause , followed by the present tense in the subordinate one . |
| 17 | With the league regionalised over Winter it 's almost certain that Clwyd , Gwynedd and Powys teams will prop up the table for a couple of months . |
| 18 | The willingness of AIS to listen to Skymaster users about the direction of the service is welcome , and one hopes that the customers will take up the challenge . |
| 19 | ‘ What she means , ’ Ruth said pertly when Mrs Longhill had left the kitchen , ‘ is that her servants must keep up the standards ! ’ |
| 20 | Great coldness and chills run up and down the back ; pains can go up the back too . |
| 21 | To make matters worse , chemical reactions on the surfaces of the ice cloud particles may speed up the rate of ozone depletion by some forms of chlorine especially chlorine monoxide ( figure 6.8 ; Stolarski , 1988 ) . |
| 22 | David Whitehouse believes scientists should take up the cudgels |
| 23 | However frustrating , Labour leaders must keep up the attack to put Britain back to work . |
| 24 | In each country , politics complicated development , but German interests finally obtained an east-west canal to link Berlin with the Ruhr and by 1905 ships of 2,000 tons could go up the Rhine as far as Mannheim , a very important change since the Ruhr by then needed more than German ore . |
| 25 | NAREA hopes SSDs and health authorities will take up the charter and incorporate it into working practices . |
| 26 | SERPS consists of no more than a promise that future generations will pick up the bill . |
| 27 | TESTS MAY CLEAR UP THE MYSTERY |
| 28 | The twins had been thrilled with the computer , of course — how was it that even small children could pick up the mechanics of these complicated machines in five seconds flat ? |
| 29 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that higher taxes and minimum wages would put up the costs of British businesses , making them uncompetitive and costing them jobs ? |
| 30 | Perhaps one of the Aquatic Societies will take up the challenge . |