Example sentences of "[coord] [to-vb] up [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This seems to leave us only two options : either to believe anyway ( repressing our doubts and feeling guilty about those that remain ) or to give up faith . |
| 2 | ESL has been a particularly dynamic area of language teaching and one area of provision has always been for students who wish to continue their general education in this country or to take up training opportunities in MSC-funded schemes . |
| 3 | We hope to finalize the fieldwork by the end of 1992 and to round up research by the middle of 1993 . |
| 4 | The Europeans were encouraged to devalue , and to open up trade between themselves before freeing their exchanges with the US . |
| 5 | One of the most colourful figures to testify was a Maryland escrow agent Marilyn Harrell , who revealed that she had used an estimated $5,500,000 in federal funds to buy houses and cars for poor families , to pay off mortgages , and to set up construction companies . |
| 6 | Many companies wishing to demonstrate greater accountability and a commitment to high standards of corporate governance have in fact taken steps to increase the number and calibre of their NEDs and to set up audit committees . |
| 7 | Herringman is probably best known as the publisher of John Dryden [ q.v. ] , but his first enterprising move was to purchase the stock of John Holden , who had died in May 1652 , and to set up business at Holden 's former shop at the Blue Anchor in the Lower Walk , New Exchange , during 1653 . |
| 8 | We 've got extra foot patrols in uniform and plain clothes to prevent an attack and to pick up information . |
| 9 | Essex education officers are concerned that it is becoming increasingly difficult to find an alternative school for excluded pupils and to match up exam courses . |
| 10 | They informed to curry favour and to build up credit against being informed on themselves , but also out of ambition , spite , jealousy and almost every other nasty motive found in human nature . |
| 11 | The Cumbria emergency planning system outlined above can , for instance , be used as an experimental tool , permitting police and emergency planners to simulate a hazard event and to call up information on resources , to identify possible areas for evacuation , to plan routes through the transport network , and so on . |
| 12 | In other moves to improve the government 's human rights record , Babangida instructed the Federal Investigation and Intelligence Bureau to compile a list of people held under Decree 2 of 1984 , which permitted detention for six months without trial , and to speed up prosecution of those against whom evidence existed . |
| 13 | Peyton may have decided to have Godfrey killed both because of his ‘ betrayal ’ and to stir up hatred against the Catholics , on whom suspicion would inevitably fall . |
| 14 | There have been attempts since the 1970s to limit the money which US parties spend campaigning , to outlaw very large donations , and to top up money raised from small contributors with state funding . |