Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [verb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile the supporters want to set up a petition encouraging Flashman to go . |
| 2 | under Labour waiting lists have gone up every time we 've had a Labour administration . |
| 3 | Premiums have gone up an average 17 per cent this year . |
| 4 | Ever since then , as the story goes , journalists have kept up the tradition of ending the final page of each story with the sign -30- . |
| 5 | These manufacturers have pushed up the resolution a little by breaking the display into submatrices , addressed separately , but connected to give a unified picture . |
| 6 | In many cases the becak drivers have put up a fight to prevent their livelihood from being carted off . |
| 7 | Cunningham ( 1982 ) reports that if parents decide to give up the baby permanently , it is ‘ for the parents who make it , the right decision , . |
| 8 | The staff will stay on until the parents arrive to pick up the children . |
| 9 | While the part-time handymen do tidy up the area from time to time the amount of time they can devote to this is strictly limited . ’ |
| 10 | A huge land-grab is going on in Bosnia-Herzegovina today as Serbs and Croats fight to divide up the country . |
| 11 | Her parents have set up a trust fund and this competition . |
| 12 | ‘ The new production quotas have stirred up a hornet 's nest — and that 's without the added difficulty of a flu epidemic . ’ |
| 13 | The proceeds have shored up the balance sheet but the trading picture is grim . |
| 14 | The largest companies have drawn up a criteria which demand inter alia that new book purchases must be based on a stock turn of one year ( in other words , the whole print run has to sell out within one year of US publication ) and that the projected gross margin must not be less than 50% . |
| 15 | Sudjic implies this when he explains how architects of office blocks have to dress up the imperatives of mechanical engineers , and when he examines , and rejects , attempts to tie the design of tower blocks to the social ills they can contain . |
| 16 | TWO Lanarkshire businessmen have set up a reprographics firm which aims to compete with Middle and Far East firms for orders originating in Scotland , writes John Hatfield . |
| 17 | Indeed , to the extent that inflationary expectations have built up a momentum of their own that it regards as excessive , the government may be forced to adopt demand management policies which aim to raise the unemployment rate above the natural rate so as to throw the process outlined above into reverse gear . |
| 18 | Since the 1970s , water purification plants have cleaned up the lake , which had become seriously polluted by heavy metals and organic compounds discharged by industrial plants . |
| 19 | Customs have set up the Dover Customs Yacht Team to deal with queries on yachts under temporary importation arrangements in an EC country on 31 December 1992 . |
| 20 | Occasionally governments have opened up a discussion by publishing a ‘ Green Paper ’ which set out alternative possibilities . |
| 21 | Top equity and foreign exchange dealers have picked up a minimum of £200,000 before bonuses and perks — the real whiz-kids making upwards of £300,000 . |
| 22 | The trophy , named after a past director of Stoddard 's carpets , has been at the company for the past 37 years , but this is the first time in history that the organisers have opened up the competition for runners up . |
| 23 | Equity investors have made up the difference . |
| 24 | Although managers have drawn up a list of personalities who could be invited to open the centre , identities were not revealed . |
| 25 | Officers have dug up the foundations of a garage in Goddard Avenue , Swindon , in a resumed search for Mrs Main . |
| 26 | The reforms have speeded up the pace of resource management ( now being rolled out to all acute units ) , made medical audit compulsory and strengthened managers ' formal powers over clinicians . |
| 27 | Executives from over 300 North West firms have taken up the Challenge this year |
| 28 | The leases have brewed up a storm in Darlington as landlords say they could mean the end of many traditional pubs . |
| 29 | We have a report that four unidentified persons have set up a rocket launcher two hundred yards west of seventeenth green . |
| 30 | At the other end of the scale , however , our machines have picked up a host of animal noises at frequencies above the range of our ears , called ultrasound . |