Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] up [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cheltenham & Gloucester and the Yorkshire are taking the discount route to drum up business . |
| 2 | A meeting at the end of the Summer term provides an opportunity to sum up progress over the year and to talk parents through school reports particularly in terms of National Curriculum attainment levels and programmes of study . |
| 3 | Their attempt to whip up opposition to him when news of Stony Stratford reached London had proved abortive and since then they had apparently been a spent force . |
| 4 | Their attempt to whip up opposition to him when news of Stony Stratford reached London had proved abortive and since then they had apparently been a spent force . |
| 5 | After a disappointing first round of sales in Texas , where half of the affordable housing is located , the agency extended its offer and advertised a sealed-bid auction to drum up interest . |
| 6 | AN MP has called for immediate action to stop finance companies using ‘ blatant political scare tactics ’ in a bid to drum up business . |
| 7 | Demands for action to clean up sulphur dioxide emissions from power stations , widely believed to be responsible for the ‘ acid rain ’ that was killing forests , lakes and rivers — not just in Scotland , but as far afield as Germany and Scandinavia — were brushed aside on the grounds of inconclusive evidence ; a similar attitude was taken towards the radioactive discharges from the nuclear reprocessing plant at Sellafield . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll wire HQ to open up phase two . ’ |
| 9 | A spokeswoman said editor Peter Stothard wanted new blood to sharpen up coverage . |
| 10 | Allegations of treason were made concerning the loss of lands in France , a matter which may have particularly concerned the Kentishmen , whose vulnerability to raids was obvious , and who may well have been alarmed by the issue of a commission of array , and a command to set up warning beacons , on 14 April . |
| 11 | The European Community ( EC ) has agreed on a programme to clean up sewage which pollutes rivers and beaches , poisons fish and renders water unfit to drink . |
| 12 | So it was no skin off my nose , it was no big deal to shut up shop in the middle of the day . |
| 13 | were reluctantly constrained to order the defendant to give up possession of 336 , Stocksfield Road to the plaintiffs because of the earlier decision of the Court of Appeal ( Kerr and Woolf L.JJ. ) in South Northamptonshire District Council v. |
| 14 | Not too great a challenge right now , but a development programme to build up confidence , the ability to play at the highest level . |
| 15 | The Great Britain international hooker charged down full-back Garry Jack 's clumsy attempt to kick up field and then pounced over the line , Paul Eastwood adding the two points . |
| 16 | It is one thing , though no doubt foolish , for the president to hold up air traffic while he gets a haircut from a high-priced snipper on the tarmac of Los Angeles airport . |
| 17 | She admitted she had come from London to gain recruits for the Communist Party , but denied any attempt to stir up strife . |
| 18 | His engineers were glad to continue with the central job they had been engaged on before : the attempt to speed up power station completion rates in undertakings they now controlled more directly . |
| 19 | British Coal Enterprise Ltd has recently set up a Fast Track Loans Scheme to provide almost ‘ instant loans ’ for small businesses in a bid to speed up job creation in pit closure areas . |
| 20 | A powered digger to break up ground . |
| 21 | Many who moved were glad to do so and the economy as a whole has benefited from the release of agricultural labour to take up employment in the expanding manufacturing and service sectors . |
| 22 | Priest to take up post at Vatican |
| 23 | Earlier , the Bank of England threw away £10BILLION in a futile attempt to prop up sterling . |
| 24 | Vanne took the first boat trip across Lake Tanganyika to Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve with Jane in 1960 , when the authorities refused to give a 20-year-old girl permission to set up camp on her own . |
| 25 | It was awfully sporting of IBM Corp to set up consultancy , systems integration and facilities management ventures in an attempt to put to profitable use the surplus skills of so many of its employees , and only curmudgeons asked if IBMers were actually the right people for the job : sad to say , the curmudgeons were right , and according to Computerworld , the head of the new IBM Consulting Group in White Plains , New York , Robert Howe , says that it is having to hire people from the likes of Andersen Consulting and Coopers & Lybrand , because as he told the paper , ‘ we 've tried IBMers , but frankly we 've had to send some home — some IBM people did n't get the notion of the service business — they did n't understand that we did n't want administrators and middle managers ’ . |
| 26 | The report suggests that the decision to set up hospital trusts in Scotland resulted either from ‘ deference ’ to the arguments of groups applying for trust status , or from ‘ blind determination to implement unpopular policy ’ . |
| 27 | Trickstick is based on a novel electrical effect , it uses the human body as an aerial to pick up mains hum . |
| 28 | Local education authorities in Northern Ireland were required by this Act to set up management committees for further education institutions , with some degree of autonomy , instead of managing them directly . |
| 29 | The DUP says that Republican violence paid off in the disarming of the RUC , the disbanding of the B Specials , the banning of Orange , Black and Apprentice Boys ' parades resulting in the imprisonment of Loyalists , the overthrow of Ulster 's parliament , the plan for talks with Dublin to change the status of Northern Ireland within the United Kingdom , the abolishing of the Oath of Allegiance to the Queen in the new Assembly and Executive , the making of such oaths illegal for appointment to government boards , the removal of the Governor , the obliteration of ‘ On Her Majesty 's Service ’ from official paid envelopes , the attempt to destroy democracy by power-sharing which was a blow at the secrecy of the ballot box and an insult to British citizenship and standards , the proposal to set up machinery for the transfer of Northern Ireland 's powers to a body or bodies in or with the Irish Republic , and the continued existence of areas in Northern Ireland where the Queen 's writ did not effectually run . |
| 30 | Outflanking Imelda Marcos , Cojuangco emerged as the leading right-wing opposition contender , continuing his campaign to build up support in the former Marcos bastions of northern Ilocos province and the Cagayan valley , and in the Mindanao and the crucial Visayas , estimated to represent some 21 per cent of the total vote . |