Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun pl] [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | ANARAP 's main objective is to facilitate grassroots participation in the democratic process by helping groups to set up and operate community radios . |
| 2 | Seeing birds close up and handling them was a vital part of my education . |
| 3 | While crackling flames eat up the beams |
| 4 | A LAW allowing courts to lock up child criminals as young as 12 has been given the go-ahead by Mr Clarke . |
| 5 | Two associated berths , one equipped with two pneumatic grain elevators were also completed allowing vessels drawing up to 9.6 metres ordinary spring tides to discharge to the new facility . |
| 6 | The two boys then spent the rest of the day helping beaters send up birds for the guns . |
| 7 | For example , if there were a sudden selling of sterling ( due , say , to bad trade figures and a resulting fear that the pound would depreciate ) , the Bank of England could help to prevent the pound from falling by using reserves to buy up pounds on the foreign exchange market . |
| 8 | But overall trading margins shot up from 3.6 per cent to 4.4 per cent last year and Mr Habgood said the results show ‘ sound evidence of long-term recovery . ’ |
| 9 | Trading profits edged up 3 per cent in both distilling and brewing , but the contribution from LVMH fell 18 per cent to £101 million , and interest costs rose by 26 per cent to £204 million . |
| 10 | As the Patients ' Association noted , the Charter was an important step in enabling patients to speak up for themselves as individuals outside the organisational framework of DHAs acting as " champions of the people " and GPs as the patient 's agent . |
| 11 | In Botswana and Lesotho , for example , many lower classes , from Class I to 3 , are working short two-and-a-half to three hour sessions , thus enabling teachers to split up very large groups . |
| 12 | The Privy Council is then found referring to arbitration a dispute between two foreigners , hearing the submission and apology of a merchant for speaking offensively about the Queen , instructing sheriffs to send up a note of the number of prisoners in their gaols , ordering mayors of seaports to prepare private ships to serve in the navy against the expected Spanish invasion , telling its agents at the Hague to arrange for the purchase of matches for guns , sending off various warrants , organizing the acquisition of copper for the Queen 's service , delegating the decision in a legal action to the J.P.s of Bedfordshire , permitting the taking of a collection on behalf of a Cornish village despoiled by Spaniards , and writing to the Lord Mayor of London about a complaint against his predecessor . |
| 13 | I think in terms of our our first duty to protect the public by keeping offenders locked up securely , yes by and large we do a good job and that , by keeping good order in prisons we do a good job generally speaking incidence are very few and far between after the mid eighties , things have settled down considerably . |
| 14 | Helping parents draw up these lists builds on the information they have gained from the assessment phase where they have already learned to specify the problem areas . |
| 15 | Cider makers are so short of apples they 're urging growers to pick up windfall fruit off the ground . |
| 16 | And this was what the Technology purchase was all about — although margins are low , operating costs make up only 10% of company revenues , so profits can and are made . |
| 17 | Police and Scottish National Farmers Union officials in Dumfries and Galloway are urging farmers to set up farm watch schemes in an attempt to combat the attacks . |
| 18 | Urging firms to take up the challenge of the new markets to safeguard their future , he added : ‘ It is the innovative and proactive oil and gas service companies of Scotland with the vision and drive to explore and capitalise on international markets who will succeed and grow in the next century . ’ |
| 19 | Turnover at the group , which now has an interest in three onshore fields , rose 4.4 per cent to £1.9 million in the 12 months to 31 December , but operating profits shot up from £2,000 to £32,000 . |
| 20 | Retailing profits edged up from £205 million to £214 million , within which the Comet electrical chain performed ‘ especially well ’ and only the B&Q DIY business reported a fall . |
| 21 | She will probably be awake before that as alcohol disrupts sleep as well as causing dehydration , causing partygoers to wake up with a raging thirst and pounding headache . |
| 22 | And now , with the accountants still hiring bulldozers to gather up the money , they 've begun to blow it all via smack , the biggest sucker punch of the lot . |
| 23 | As Rune 's hard , caressing hands slid up and down her body , Gina automatically raised her arms around his neck , her fingers reaching for his hair , winding through its golden thickness , oblivious to everything save the heavy clamouring of her heart , the new-found responses of her senses to Rune 's compelling masculine power . |
| 24 | But I must be safe with this — I hate seeing dogs dolled up in supposedly smart clothes ; you know the kind — scarlet plastic macs with matching sou'wester and booties . |
| 25 | Small touches like presenting objects wrapped up , or putting them inside a " feel bag " and asking pupils to guess what they are can add spice to the exercise . |
| 26 | Further down the hierarchy the proportion of the population living in Other Dominant cities ( cities at the core of the twenty major urban regions excluding the top six — e.g. Nottingham , Edinburgh , Coventry , Brighton ) fell marginally , that of Subdominants ( medium-sized cities surrounding the Dominants ) ruse by one percentage point and that of Freestanding cities went up by nearly two percentage points . |
| 27 | Also on Dec. 23 , leading intellectuals set up the first independent human rights monitoring group , the Forum for the Defence of Human Rights , which set itself the goal of the release of all political prisoners . |
| 28 | Henry III originated the practice of forcing landowners to take up knighthood , in order apparently to recruit cavalrymen for an overseas campaign . |
| 29 | Everywhere he found the same thing : elderly employees , attempting to run things as they thought the old baron would have wanted , out of touch with new ideas , fearful of taking any decision on their own , and consequently stalling , allowing problems to build up . |
| 30 | It takes you bleeding ages to start up so you definitely got to have exercise with your legs . |