Example sentences of "been [verb] [to-vb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turkey 's state-owned Posts , Telegraphs & Telephone Administration is inviting rebids for the contract to set up a Groupe Speciale Mobile digital cellular system : bids had already been received to set up the system on a revenue-sharing basis , but the tender was withdrawn after the PTT decided to set up the system on a concession basis instead . |
| 2 | A new telephone system has been installed to speed up the operations of Middlesbrough Borough and Cleveland County Councils . |
| 3 | The Supreme Court on July 17 ruled " unreasonable and illegal " the emergency regulations initiated by Housing and Construction Minister Ariel Sharon , which had been designed to speed up the building of accommodation for tens of thousands of Jewish immigrants from the Soviet Union . |
| 4 | The backlight button or manual iris control has been used to open up the lens aperture in order to give the foreground subject the correct exposure . |
| 5 | And if you have only just been inspired to take up the sport , maybe on the back of the Redford film A River Runs Through It , the club will allow a small number of beginners . |
| 6 | More than 70,000 shopkeepers have been forced to put up the shutters in the past year . |
| 7 | As our economy has declined as our recession has turned to a slump increasingly it is the low-paid , the sick , the disabled and the unemployed who have been forced to pick up the tab for the Tory policy failure . |