Example sentences of "put up the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | By making it hard to put up the tall blocks of flats of the sort that span the skylines of most capitals , the government condemns Tokyo to low-rise , cramped housing . |
2 | When he was an undergraduate at Christchurch in nineteen seventy-five , he and a friend , Tim Sanderson , decided to put up the biggest folly in the world in Christchurch meadow : |
3 | The last Labour Government put up the standard rate to 35p . |
4 | The national Labour defeat , of course , denies Mr Mandelson the government post widely predicted for him as a consequence of his guru status within his party ; the Hartlepool runner-up , radio and PR man Mr Graham Robb , put up the Conservative vote by a thousand but was still 8,782 adrift . |
5 | I note that , unlike the Labour party , when the hon. Gentleman 's party advocates increased public spending , it is at least honest enough to say that it will put up the basic rate of tax . |
6 | His party says that it will put up the basic rate of tax . |
7 | Yet , at the same time , it said that if there were a coalition Government , it would stop the Labour party putting up the higher rate of tax . |
8 | A plan to restore the windows at a cost of DFl.1.2 million has been approved by the State Office for Monuments who are putting up the greater part of the necessary funds . |
9 | He made it possible for the duke and his eight-months pregnant duchess to rush back from Germany to Kensington Palace for the birth , putting up the royal cavalcade at his home in Shooter 's Hill on the way . |
10 | The point implicit in the hon. Gentleman 's question is : what is the point of putting up the top rate of tax if one raises less revenue ? |
11 | It was Saturday so they had put up the green fee from four and sixpence to seven and six and she could n't bear to waste the money . |