Example sentences of "be [verb] up the [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its first job should be to draw up the Institute 's environment charter . |
| 2 | One tempting remedy would be to speed up the SFO 's act . |
| 3 | The noise thus created is thought to be passed up the animal 's windpipe and into the sinus cavities of the skull , where it resonates to produce the purring sound . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A dispute with Telecom engineers is holding up the company 's first link in London , and Mercury 's first inter-city line — which should have been operating by now — will not open until next year . |
| 6 | NEC IS starting up the world 's first production line for 16 megabit chips in its Sagamihara factory , reports Ken Takahashi of Newsbytes . |
| 7 | Her new brief is to build up the NCB 's department . |
| 8 | The Chicago Board of Trade ( CBT ) is setting up the world 's first market place for pollution , with the intention both of making money and reducing emissions . |
| 9 | He was heading up the President 's getaway operation at the Abbey . |
| 10 | Meanwhile he began to suspect that the Shipping Federation was buying up the union 's debts . |
| 11 | He was lifting up the lamb 's head , pulling on its muzzle to make it bleat . |