Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [verb] [to-vb] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | From time to time these institutions are instructed to speed up the introduction of Hindi . |
| 2 | But creditors are threatening to wind up the business unless six figure debts are paid . |
| 3 | But unfortunately er it seems to fall on many deaf ears and we the Society as other many charities who deal with animals are left to pick up the pieces . |
| 4 | Many parties were expected to take up the offer , although Fernando Belaúnde Terry , a former President and leader of the Popular Action ( AP ) party , stated that unless the holding municipal elections was restored to the current year [ see below ] , the AP would not participate in any talks . |
| 5 | Under the Brady deal , the banks that made these swaps were asked to tear up the old loans and choose among three new deals in their place . |
| 6 | THE UNITED Nations is planning to set up the first international research centre for applying genetic engineering and biotechnology to crops . |
| 7 | Another problem which electric fish have circumvented is that very sensitive receptors are needed to pick up the weak signals of other fish , and such receptors would be swamped by the fish 's own field . |
| 8 | So the adapters are attempting to get up the career using sort of tried and tested ways of digging and sort of hauling each other up , and this sort of thing . |
| 9 | Patshull Park Lake was ice free on Saturday but completely frozen on Sunday so two motor boats were used to break up the half inch thick ice for two hours . |
| 10 | It 's the time young hounds are trained to pick up the scent of a fox . |
| 11 | The securities firms are trying to prop up the tumbling stockmarket by cutting the supply of new issues . |
| 12 | Established firms are tending to scoop up the talent in the market which is still in second-tier houses — without which they will not survive . |
| 13 | Three other LEDs are used to set up the operating status , arranged in a horizontal ‘ traffic light ’ formation : red indicates that the input signal is below the Threshold level , yellow that it has reached Threshold , and the green that it is above Threshold . |
| 14 | The Bank 's sales of Ecus for pounds were intended to shore up the pound against the mark , without resorting to outright sales of the German currency . |
| 15 | The herd tends to flee together and the stripes are thought to jumble up the individual shapes and make the fleeing herd look like one great mass of black and white patterning . |
| 16 | In 1943 the course was at risk of being farmed when official orders were made to plough up the 9th , 10th , 11th , 12th , 13th and 14th holes . |
| 17 | English names were adopted to speed up the process of assimilation . |
| 18 | These early payments are used to clear up the cost of setting it up — and in particular the commission of the agent who sold it to you . |
| 19 | On the German side a few bombs were dropped to keep up the pretence , but they were left strictly alone by fighter aircraft , of course . |
| 20 | Serious attempts were made to level up the resources for secondary modem schools , in order to make them comparable with grammar schools , and so achieve that parity to which Ellen Wilkinson was openly committed . |
| 21 | With the long summer evenings and school holidays about to start … the Police are pledged to keep up the pressure against the joyriders |
| 22 | A number of men were employed to do up the houses one by one — they 're slowly being modernised and decorated . |
| 23 | Volunteers were sought to set up the tables . |
| 24 | The posters are intended to cheer up the staircase , which is in urgent need of renovation . |
| 25 | Ministers are expected to take up the fight in the next few days and urge the banks that , at a time of national economic crisis , they must do their bit . |
| 26 | These days women were allowed to take up the running , but she had n't and now it was too late . |
| 27 | COACHING CONTROLLER CARDS : These cards are designed to speed up the pace at which you can get information from your hard disk . |
| 28 | Necessary jobs are helping to clear up the smaller branches and making a start on repointing the bridge itself . |
| 29 | Eventually , as much for hygienic reasons as out of a desire to conform with Moscow 's example of de-Stalinization , the Czechs were forced to give up the battle to keep Gottwald 's corpse from going green and bury him instead . |