Example sentences of "[vb pp] by [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | English Nature have responded by drawing up a lowland peatland policy , which includes commitments : , to oppose new planning applications for peat extraction on Sites of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSI ) ; , to seek protection for SSSI sites which already have planning permission — by purchasing or leasing the site , providing grant aid for conservation management , or liaising with extractors to minimize damage ; , to support the development of alternatives to peat . |
| 2 | The Government had responded by setting up an interdepartmental committee under the chairmanship of Lord Justice James to review the distribution of criminal business between the Crown Court and the Magistrates ' courts . |
| 3 | The Confederation of British Industry responded by setting up its own task force , made up of leading industrialists . |
| 4 | Henry Skelton 's college responded by setting up a drugs working party involving students . |
| 5 | One city has responded by setting up a twenty-four hour response team to help people whose lives are being ruined by noisy neighbours . |
| 6 | The children responded by making up their own problems for each other . |
| 7 | The males responded by puffing up their chests and circling slowly towards each other . |
| 8 | The problem of sensing just where the actual zero pitch point is on the transmitter can be solved by setting up one of your pitch ranges so that simply pulling the collective stick hard back gives exactly zero pitch . |
| 9 | This was solved by setting up the first stall run by the eldest most respected woman in the village . |
| 10 | Under the new act these problems were to be addressed by setting up coordinating budget committees in the House and the Senate , drawing up a realistic timetable for dealing with the budget and establishing a Congressional Budget Office that would provide the staff and expertise necessary for dealing with the budget responsibly . |
| 11 | ‘ This they have done by drawing up a ‘ list ’ of recommended books for children of different ages which are , almost without exception , not one but two generations old . |
| 12 | Tubifex is collected by scooping up the mud patch containing the worms , and then washing the mud away to leave clean worms which tend to gather in a tight ball . |
| 13 | Using an X-Windows interface called Netbench , an application is built by linking up multiple instances of these objects . |
| 14 | In news programmes , quality and range were sought by setting up a distinct company , ITN , which was jointly owned by the other companies and supplied news for the whole channel , and later for Channel 4 . |
| 15 | The T&L empire grew out of the merger in the 1920s of East End sugar refineries owned by Henry Tate and Abram Lyle , and expanded by fattening up the nation with calories . |
| 16 | The literature of Scottish geology , however , whilst it has grown in terms of numbers of papers , has not resulted in any increase in the numbers of journals devoted to it ( except for the Scottish Journal of Geology ) , but has grown by taking up more space in existing journals , and by expanding into areas covered by new , multidisciplinary journals , such as Precambrian Research , Chemical Geology , Tectonophysics , and similar publications . |
| 17 | The literature of Scottish geology , however , whilst it has grown in terms of numbers of papers , has not resulted in any increase in the numbers of journals devoted to it ( except for the Scottish Journal of Geology ) , but has grown by taking up more space in existing journals , and by expanding into areas covered by new , multidisciplinary journals , such as Precambrian Research , Chemical Geology , Tectonophysics , and similar publications . |
| 18 | Such a client pool could best be exploited by setting up sales within the country rather than wooing clients to bid at international level , which is currently their approach in Korea , another target area in their long-term world-wide strategy . |
| 19 | The suspense in ‘ Lord of the Flies ’ is made by building up to seeing the pig from the squealing and trotting hoofs . |
| 20 | Repoussé work made by hammering up raised areas of sheet gold against a solid block held against the inside and the use of punches and tracers for chasing designs on the outer surface were both being practised by Sumerian smiths at the time of the Ur cemetery . |
| 21 | Ordinary window glass is an example of matter in this state ; it is made by melting up silicate materials such as quartz sand and allowing the melt to cool under controlled conditions so that crystallization does not occur . |
| 22 | However , I pointed out that what I was asking for was no more than would comprise a normal police station in a provincial town and that there were many economies to be made by giving up our offices in central London . |
| 23 | The blinds can be fitted on to a wooden batten with touch-and-close fastener for easy removal , and are operated by pulling up cords which pass through rings on the back of the blind , then through screw-eyes on the underside of the batten . |
| 24 | Stop pretending that pension commitments in the next century can be met by piling up bits of paper now , and restore the system to its original pay-as-you-go basis by cutting payroll taxes . |
| 25 | The shortage is being met by pumping up groundwater and by making more efficient use of water . |
| 26 | They often pay a higher pension , based on 1/60th for each year of service rather than l/80th , but the tax-free lump sum has to be bought by giving up part of your pension . |
| 27 | It has celebrated by sprucing up its Quality of Markets Quarterly Review , the first issue of which features an utterly gloomy article detailing the £350 million of losses made by member firms last year . |
| 28 | Complex sentence structures are mastered by building up from simple sentence structures , which have been drilled already in substitution and differential drills . |
| 29 | The strength of any particular syllable can be measured by counting up the number of times an s symbol occurs above it ; the levels in the sentence shown above can be diagrammed like this ( leaving out syllables that have never received stress at any level ) : |
| 30 | The increased numbers of people were housed by splitting up existing houses so that even modest cottages had sometimes up to twenty people living in them . |