Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Women who I had attacked for bringing up boy children wanted to know if it had been an immaculate conception or simply parthenogenesis , and what was I going to do with it if it were a boy ?
2 ‘ Pluto is renowned for bringing up things that are buried , so we are going to see revealed things that have remained secret for years .
3 The answer … is not to resign ourselves to our women 's role — in a woman 's place — and demand payment for staying put , but to collectivise childcare , to share the responsibility for bringing up children within the community .
4 look at the actual erm suitability of the flats say , for bringing up children .
5 Erm how suitable would you say the flats are for bringing up children ?
6 lot of the people who are complaining here are people who are complaining that their an assessment has been made which was very much lower than is necessary for bringing up children .
7 The prime responsibility for bringing up children rests with parents .
8 Barry contends the two-parent family remains the best structure for bringing up children , but that single-parent families and other minorities seem to get an inordinate say in society .
9 Where was the best place for bringing up fish on the river ?
10 The SAS claimed forty aircraft , many of them Junkers 52 transporters which Rommel relied on for bringing up supplies .
11 ‘ We 've included a lot of ideas in the book for using up leftovers — not just the turkey but odd lumps of cheese or tired bits of fruit . ’
12 However , experience demonstrated to accident investigators and to officials responsible for drawing up regulations governing flight recorders that access to the recordings of many previous flights was not a critical factor , though it was most desirable to examine the recording of the flight immediately prior to an accident flight .
13 In arguing the Slovak case for the altar Mr Richard Marsina , a historian charged with heading the Slovak commission for drawing up claims , points to Prago-centrism — one of the grievances that led to Slovakia following its path to independent statehood .
14 These initiatives enable those who are responsible for drawing up programmes of modules to offer provision which realistically addresses the needs of inmates , whether at the start of a sentence or embarking on pre-release courses .
15 Cleveland SSD has said it will ‘ defend strongly ’ its arrangement for drawing up contracts .
16 No , that 's for building up lumps of cash .
17 In this chapter , techniques for building up systems of the joint influence of variables have been outlined , using differences in proportions as the measure of strength of effect .
18 The judgements that have to be made are complex , not least because local government has existed for a long time and the opportunities for building up capital or depleting it have been great .
19 The National Insurance contribution complications would be avoided as there would be no need to pay directors ' salaries as the individual partners would rely on their own shares of profit as their source of earnings and the company partner would only be a vehicle for building up capital .
20 Topics in the talk included alternative training methods , particularly for building up leg strength .
21 The wheel may be used for the identification of objects , for forming original sentences based on the pictures , and for building up stories around the picture ( Finocchiaro 1968 ) .
22 Again , this is a very friendly area ideal for building up muscles and confidence .
23 ‘ Farrar was the first real researcher into the history of teaching the deaf , and unearthed many previously unknown items of literature about the deaf and was largely responsible for building up Oxley 's Library of the Deaf ( this Library was largely fragmented after Oxley 's death , and many rare articles and books disappeared ) .
24 It does n't it 's not good for building up relationships .
25 The S3 graphics co-processor and its associated chipset is justly acknowledged to be more than useful for speeding up Windows graphics , offloading much of the graphics work from the CPU as it does , and the speed up with a variety of tasks under Windows and applications is very noticeable .
26 We and our daily rhythms can respond to bright light and an appropriate use of this may become part of our armoury for speeding up adjustment of the body clock after a time-zone transition .
27 ICI has chosen not to invest in new HCFCs which have a small ozone depletion potential even though these represent a useful interim measure for speeding up CFC phase-out , preferring to concentrate on more lasting solutions .
28 The Faulks Committee would have done better to concentrate on methods for speeding up libel hearings .
29 Oliver was a whiny child , partly , I think , because Nonni had set ideas about bringing up babies which involved feeding them at set hours and leaving them to cry in between .
30 So what do you , if had er , in terms of , how do you feel about bringing up children round here , what do you what do you feel about that , bringing up ?
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