Example sentences of "[v-ing] up [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Compared with a survey carried out in 1985 , Inform found that many companies had switched their emphasis from cleaning up polluting waste to cutting it out at source . |
| 2 | After giving up teaching home economics , because ‘ it went sour and , at 40 , I felt the need to take stock , ’ Lorna started up on her own , designing curtains . |
| 3 | His early release was conditional on him taking up labouring work with a state owned construction company in Ostrava . |
| 4 | Erm asks for an indication of whether you are likely to be taking up teaching service after retirement . |
| 5 | One of the most enthusiastic authorities taking up housing action trusts has been Liverpool city council . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | One Yukpa village has responded to repeated harassment by setting up a barricade to stop the company setting up mining equipment on their land . |
| 8 | * The chairman of RTZ , the world 's largest mining company , Sir Derek Birkin , has suggested that the public should share the costs of clearing up mining waste , since " society as a whole , rather than mining companies , benefits most from the creation of those wastes " . |