Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [verb] up the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its first job should be to draw up the Institute 's environment charter . |
| 2 | But an MP says he 'll be taking up the case , and demanding it go back to the courts for a stiffer sentence . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , I get some expenses ; I 'll be making up the difference . ’ |
| 4 | It could be traced up the boulder strewn fellside easterly of the beetling Kernal Crag , along and over Thriddle Scar ( in which were ancient workings but little other than trials ) across ground with pits , trials and trenches , made by early miners along its strike , to pass below the northern margin of Levers Water . |
| 5 | You could be passing up the chance to obtain the most loving , loyal friend anyone could wish for . |
| 6 | You could be opening up the way to new prosperity . |
| 7 | ‘ The agent was forever calling him , wanting to know if , this time , you 'd be taking up the ticket . |
| 8 | He 's concerned that banking attitudes may be holding up the recovery . |
| 9 | But R-134a has one drawback compared to propane and butane — it adds to the so-called greenhouse effect of pollution which may be heating up the earth 's climate . |
| 10 | It is better than tripods for a really wet crop since the crop may be put up the day it is cut even in rainy weather . |
| 11 | They can often be blind to the fact that the good child may be stirring up the problem and letting the naughty one get the blame . |
| 12 | Alternatively , they may be lifted up the backstay by shockcord to keep them out of the way . |
| 13 | He knew that the howling wind would be whipping up the downfall into deep drifts on the exposed high moor . |
| 14 | We noted earlier that the immediate effect of increased investment in investment trusts would be to push up the price of their shares without resulting in any extra flow of funds from savers to borrowers . |
| 15 | The main effect of an enzyme , altering b1 to b2 , would be to speed up the rate at which bonds were broken . |
| 16 | Down below the bridge , he knew , about eight or nine shambling street people would be setting up the plastic pallets and bakers ' trays that would keep them off the floor for the night . |
| 17 | And she knew that her male colleagues would be propping up the bar of a public house , by eleven o'clock . |
| 18 | She would appear at the gates of the Waaf Site about 10.45pm , armed with a torch half the size of the Flamborough lighthouse , when upwards of a dozen couples would be propping up the fence saying goodnight . |
| 19 | Used be able to sit in the car would be go up the back do n't they ? |
| 20 | A better move , would be to shore up the defence , Ken Monku might move considering Southampton position . |
| 21 | Old ICM hands had nodded sagely and told us how difficult it would be to keep up the pace of attending the plenary , the working parties , the fringe meetings and the delegation briefings … and did we believe them ? |
| 22 | At a time when the easy option for a band like Moose would be to step up the distortion , rip off a few riffs and steam into the easy-money heaven where rock pigs run wild , they 've flipped away on a heady , affecting tangent that 's been traced in the last five or ten years by The Weather Prophets and Lloyd Cole , but rarely in that time with such grace and preconception-shattering nerve . |
| 23 | AT A time when the easy option for a band like Moose would be to step up the distortion , rip off a few riffs and steam into the easy-money heaven where rock pigs run wild , they 've flipped away on a heady , affecting tangent that 's been traced in the last five or ten years by The Weather Prophets and Lloyd Cole , but rarely with such grace . |
| 24 | The company had also trimmed £46,000 from its advertising budget , and would be putting up the price of cards from 20p to 25p . |
| 25 | One thing you might want to do as a way of putting an argument together would be to look up the word " Romanticism " in the dictionary , since Byron 's poetry belongs to this literary movement . |
| 26 | Because I shall be going up the town |
| 27 | Nigel Sears will be taking up the role as permanent coach to the Cellnet Challenger Squad , whilst John Paish will be working with the Achiever Squad . |
| 28 | The effect will be to drive up the exchange rate . |
| 29 | The next , more difficult step will be to clean up the mess . |
| 30 | Thus the coarse grains will be driven up the slope DA and will come to rest in the lee of the crest , AB , past which they can not move because of the complete shelter here . |