Example sentences of "step up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stepping up the pace at Alton Careers Advisory Service are from the left : Principal advisor , Debbie Dean , senior advisor Paul Barnes , advisor Jackie Lewis and senior assistant advisor Glynis Bravery . |
| 2 | It is not at all clear that stepping up the competition between schools and colleges , and between the territorially ambitious award bodies , will produce the broad choices in education and training that ought to be an entitlement post-16 , just as much as the national curriculum is before that watershed . |
| 3 | The most lethal of all electric fish has solved this problem by stepping up the voltage . |
| 4 | POLICE in County Durham are stepping up the fight against crime after a wide ranging shake-up in senior personnel . |
| 5 | The use of information technology to keep tabs on truants is receiving particular encouragement south of the Border , where the Department for Education is putting £8.6 million into stepping up the fight against truancy , while Scottish Office research has put emphasis on identifying the varied causes . |
| 6 | What visitors to Foxton now see , either from above or below , is a staircase series of two lock flights , separated half way down by a large passing pond , with intermediate side ponds stepping up the east side of the flight . |
| 7 | If it has no effect , members will be consulted again on ways of stepping up the action . |
| 8 | The review team has concluded that the main objective must be to reduce the scope for dissatisfaction by stepping up the pressure on those solicitors who are not yet ‘ up-front ’ about charges . |
| 9 | Labour said it was stepping up the pressure for an urgent Commons statement from the Chancellor to clarify which areas of spending were ruled in or out from the Treasury review . |
| 10 | In his thesis Andrew Fortune made a number of recommendations to help step up the improvements in customer service , which have been echoed in the recommendations of the Customer Focus Task Force . |
| 11 | If they do go ahead and put the application in , which I think they will , then , that 's the start of the process , so that 's a good time when we will need to really step up the campaign and we will get National speaker 's to meetings , we will get probably a petition , we will go round the area like we did over the er non funding , but we had to do something quickly , to , to make it clear , you know , we do n't want this to go ahead . |
| 12 | The Supreme Council voted on Nov. 18 to introduce visa controls on the Estonian borders from Jan. 10 , 1992 , to " step up the campaign against crime and stop illegal migration into the republic " . |
| 13 | On March 2 Pedro Mendes Jurado became the new Attorney General ; he stated that he would step up the battle against terrorism and drug trafficking . |
| 14 | If she put it all in one account she could step up the return on her £20,000 to 6.45 per cent or £1,290 after tax . |
| 15 | Trace , suspecting Randy 's incessant baiting might have some basis in desire , stepped up the spite . |
| 16 | But the Doctor had already wrenched the tank about and stepped up the output of the traction motor . |
| 17 | Than Tun stepped up the propaganda campaign to end military government . |
| 18 | Wharton , however , who won inside the distance for the 10th time , gradually stepped up the pace as the fight went into its second half . |
| 19 | We stepped up the pace . |
| 20 | Rangers stepped up the pace towards half time with McPherson firing a shot just wide of goal and Duncan Ferguson sending an overhead kick past the post . |
| 21 | However , the US administration stepped up the food aid programme in spite of the Lavoro scandal and the suspicions of the Department of Agriculture . |
| 22 | But Brian Horton kept it in his office and said that he could n't have it until everybody stepped up the game a little bit , and they stopped conceding goals . |
| 23 | But with Wigan using up all their substitutes when Skerrett came off , Hull stepped up the tempo in the second half . |
| 24 | France yesterday stepped up the pressure on the Government to join the ERM . |
| 25 | When Manly-Warringah dropped out of the chase , St George stepped up the pressure and have never really let off . |
| 26 | Kirov stepped up the pressure . |
| 27 | Her call sharply stepped up the pressure on Prime Minister John Major who has so far ruled out military intervention in the savage civil war . |
| 28 | In the seconnd half Swindon stepped up the pressure and then a controversial penalty with Mitchell chasing there 's a mix-up in the box and in the melee , the referee blows up for a penalty saying Southend number 3 had held back Mitchell . |
| 29 | The principal , Sir David Smith , yesterday stepped up the pressure in the row over ministerial pledges , as the university court agreed to go ahead with up to 28 sackings . |
| 30 | CHINA stepped up the pressure over Hong Kong yesterday , threatening to remove its government after 1997 in complete breach of the handover agreements . |