Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun pl] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of her international success and recognition , Meyer is one of the personalities South Africa is using to encourage more and more youngsters from the townships and under-developed areas to take up sport . |
| 2 | This causes massive expansion of air , and demonic winds churn up dust so that one seems to be walking on the bed of a murky sea . |
| 3 | This collection was in the care of the Royal College of Surgeons ; and other medical societies and medical schools built up museums where the student could study at leisure , augmenting what he had learned from lectures and dissections and at the bedside . |
| 4 | The professional and managerial classes made up 18% of the population in 1971 : their children formed 51% of university entrants in 1975 and 54% in 1979 . |
| 5 | The banks were found to have delayed interest rate cuts to individual customers and small businesses to keep up profits . |
| 6 | Here , too , came Gladstone and other politicians to whip up support . |
| 7 | News of the disposal and the £75m profit BAT will reap from the deal sent shares in the tobacco and financial services conglomerate up 9p to 745p . |
| 8 | As medical staffing budgets are finite any increase in the number of career registrars and senior registrars uses up money that would otherwise be available for expanding the number of consultants . |