Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [to-vb] up the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A new telephone system has been installed to speed up the operations of Middlesbrough Borough and Cleveland County Councils . |
| 2 | I 'd better answer your questions in case you 're tempted to make up the answers . ’ |
| 3 | An inquiry into British energy should be undertaken to weigh up the arguments and to give the UK a national strategy for the years to 2012 and beyond . ’ |
| 4 | Neither of those sums of course has to be taken into account in any of the mathematics which now have to be done to total up the awards which I would make . |
| 5 | For example in studying the Peasants ' Revolt of 1381 the analysis of the causes is further refined by their division into long-term causes and short-term causes : To encourage the analysis of evidence pupils must be asked to weigh up the sources which may contradict one another . |
| 6 | And long-suffering wife Bet — actress Julie Goodyear — will be left to pick up the pieces . |
| 7 | 5.17.3 to remove all signs erected by the Tenant in upon or near the Premises and immediately to make good any damage caused by such removal It is advisable ( at least for the purpose of this clause ) for the tenant to ensure that the term includes any period of holding over or continuation of the contractual term ( as it does in this lease by virtue of clause 3.8 ) although it must be considered highly unlikely that the tenant would be forced to yield up the premises to the landlord during a continuation under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 . |
| 8 | Do n't be tempted to use up the remains of a summer lawn fertiliser , which will contain too much nitrogen . |
| 9 | You may be worrying about such people because you are left to pick up the pieces afterwards . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | More than 70,000 shopkeepers have been forced to put up the shutters in the past year . |
| 12 | Volunteers were sought to set up the tables . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The soil 's being used to build up the defences on the banks of the River Severn in Gloucestershire . |
| 15 | Negotiations were started to purchase the site , and the London architects Spalding and Spalding were commissioned to draw up the plans . |
| 16 | A number of men were employed to do up the houses one by one — they 're slowly being modernised and decorated . |
| 17 | For external critique is intended to show up the limitations of a form of thought as such . |
| 18 | Canvassing is undertaken to keep up the spirits of the candidate . |
| 19 | It is used to top up the seats awarded in proportion to the overall vote . |
| 20 | Consequently the daughter is left to pick up the pieces of the havoc caused by the strain of raised blood-pressure and general anxiety the next day . |
| 21 | Nonetheless , it was decided to make up the numbers with category B and C refugees . |
| 22 | This information was used to gross up the values declared by respondents to give estimates of exports for all exporting companies in Grampian . |
| 23 | A suitable train was scheduled to pick up the wives of the workmen along side their homes . |