Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [to-vb] up [art] [noun sg] " 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 | He proposed a follow-up meeting to assess progress on January 1 next year , and a conference of experts to draw up a world programme on conserving biodiversity . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Lanarkshire Development Agency intends to bring together experts from a range of professions to draw up a redevelopment plan for the 1,000-acre site . |
| 5 | In permitting the bishop of Châlons-sur-Marne to set up a mint in 864 , the king acknowledged difficulties in suppling the new currency . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It costs thousands of pounds to draw up the documentation . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Now taxpayers must pay hundreds of billions of dollars to clean up the mess left by under-capitalised thrifts . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | John Simpson had also been appalled by the competition entries for Paternoster Square and , at a very late stage , had managed to get hold of a copy of the brief — — to provide office space and car parking — and had sat down with a number of colleagues to draw up a scheme of their own . |