Example sentences of "of [noun] [to-vb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This demonstrates once again the sensitivity of the conclusions to the choice of taxes to make up the rest of the package . |
| 2 | It is difficult to see this changing dramatically in spite of attempts to build up the position of the NHS Management Executive and timely clarifications of its role and relationships with the Policy Board , chaired by the Secretary of State . |
| 3 | That changes how women feel about themselves and generates a web of activities to pick up the pieces kept hidden when pain is kept private . |
| 4 | LIFFE was aware of plans to set up the DTB , and moved quickly to pre-empt its business in German long interest rates . |
| 5 | It took the squadron all the remaining hours of daylight to clean up the airfield . |
| 6 | No doubt it would not be beyond the wit of nature to join up the cellulose molecules sideways with primary chemical bonds so that it would be thoroughly tied together and would have much the same strength in every direction . |
| 7 | His premature death opened the way for John Fothergill , an engineer and the first of five generations of Fothergills to head up the Tilery Bank business , to take over . |
| 8 | A.K. Chesterton , the ex-BUF propagandist , became so carried away by the effect of his anti-semitic diatribe that he ended his speech by advocating the use of lamp-posts to string up the Jews . |
| 9 | In spite of efforts to speed up the operation — the planned four-week courses run by Portuguese and British training officers for soldiers in the new army were , for example , cut to two weeks — by Sept. 28 only 8,800 soldiers had received training and were ready to be sworn in as members of the new force . |
| 10 | Authorises the Accountant of Court to deliver up the petitioner 's Bond of Caution . |
| 11 | It costs thousands of pounds to draw up the documentation . |
| 12 | With no cushion of bodies to soak up the sound , Garvey 's voice ricocheted off the house and chapel walls , and added an eerie aftermath to every sentence . |
| 13 | When Parliament sat again , the government announced that there would not be a ballot for Private Members ' Bills in the first session , and therefore there was no possibility of homosexual law reform , a decision which prompted the Earl of Arran to reintroduce his Sexual Offences Bill into the House of Lords to keep up the pressure . |
| 14 | He was admiring the dexterity of a young street orderly , who was darting into the stream of traffic to scoop up the piles of horse-droppings , when he heard the rattle of the door knob . |
| 15 | Moreover , within just eleven years he had been elevated to the honorific status of ‘ Dom ’ and sent to the abbey of Hautvillers to take up the post of cellarmaster , a position second only to that of abbot . |
| 16 | Preston quailed at the thought of being caught by Brenda in an act of passion on the sofa without a box of tissues to wipe up the drips . |
| 17 | Similarly Michael Allaby and James Lovelock suggest that living organisms could.be introduced into the sterile environment of Mars to warm up the atmosphere . |
| 18 | Now taxpayers must pay hundreds of billions of dollars to clean up the mess left by under-capitalised thrifts . |
| 19 | The ‘ specially urgent need to take whatever steps were immediately possible to improve the safety testing of drugs ’ in the light of the thalidomide disaster led the Joint Sub-Committee on Safety of Drugs to set up the Committee on Safety of Drugs in 1963 . |