Example sentences of "[to-vb] up [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , he adds , the division is in a good position to drum up work in co-operation with or via its connection to BT 's facilities management firm , Syncordia , and its international network services organisation , Global Network Service . |
| 2 | It was the first time that the men 's and women 's championships had been combined and I think that Marea Hartmann , the Secretary , was trying to drum up publicity for her side of the event . |
| 3 | Anna is a Russian poet , visiting London to drum up signatures for a petition protesting against her brother 's imprisonment in the Soviet Union . |
| 4 | Alarmed by inner-city tensions in reaction to mass immigration from the Commonwealth , in June 1955 the Home Secretary asked Sir Anthony Eden to set up a committee of inquiry , to drum up support for immigration controls . |
| 5 | This story had been used extensively by the Americans to drum up support against Gadaffi in the tame sections of the Western media even though they knew it was untrue . |
| 6 | Now the organisers are hoping to drum up support from local businesses to beat the threat of closure and keep the Playday alive . |
| 7 | In face of spending cutbacks in the Japanese private sector , NEC Corp is trying to drum up business for its SX-3R supercomputers by cutting monthly rental rates on 10 models in the family by up to 38% : it says it sold only eight of the things last year , down from 14 in 1991 . |
| 8 | The yacht will also host a number of ‘ sea days ’ , used by the Government and trade associations to drum up business for Britain , before and after the tour . |
| 9 | The Royal Yacht Britannia will be used for part of the tour and also to host a number of ‘ sea days ’ , used by the Government and trade associations to drum up business for Britain , before and after the tour . |
| 10 | ROGER Rance , owner of a turf supplier in Hemel Hempstead , has resorted to shock tactics to drum up business with the slogan Sod It heading his local newspaper advertisements . |
| 11 | To save money it is moving out of London to Newport in South Wales and has been running roadshows to drum up business from industry . |
| 12 | The organisation is using the event to drum up business by running a St Valentine 's Raffle . |
| 13 | Many councillors take the view that it is easy to drum up names for a petition although you may have more impact if , say , the petition is restricted to immediate neighbours of the development . |
| 14 | If there was plenty of off-the-croft employment , and a reasonable balance between the cost of living in town and country , there would be no need to drum up interest in agriculture through schemes like the IDP . |
| 15 | His role was to drum up contributions from friends in big business . |
| 16 | In Hargreaves [ 1985 ] Crim LR 243 , the accused had a piece of wire adapted to clock up credits on gaming machines . |
| 17 | A meeting at the end of the Summer term provides an opportunity to sum up progress over the year and to talk parents through school reports particularly in terms of National Curriculum attainment levels and programmes of study . |
| 18 | Well last Friday a man with a white wig , Lord Justice McCowan used five even more devastating words to sum up life in The Sun : ‘ Sensational , inaccurate and misleading coverage . ’ |
| 19 | The smartness of Camilla 's luggage astonished me [ I wrote ] — and how modest not to write up UOMINI over what , I am sure , is the Gents . |
| 20 | He never darkened its doors , but he thought it was the proper place for weddings and christenings and funerals , and he was always prepared to rig up lights for the annual parish nativity play , with a dimming spotlight to beam sentimentally on the Virgin Mary . |
| 21 | As we pointed out at the beginning of this campaign , the Labour Party proposes nothing less than to pull up Britain by the roots . |
| 22 | The pope was still trying to conjure up support for Otto . |
| 23 | Hardly a title to conjure up visions of wild youthful abandonment , ‘ Heaven Knows … ’ pushed The Smiths further into the badlands of bedsit squalor , a Godsend for those who could n't stomach the effortless polish of Sade . |
| 24 | Dieting always seems to conjure up images of endless cottage cheese salads , calorie-counting and saying no to all your favourite foods but our five day diet plan proves that it does n't have to be dull and boring . |
| 25 | Even the most ardent critics of council housing would find it difficult to conjure up images of featherbedded , oversubsidised council tenants driving expensive cars . |
| 26 | The subject was whether they would support an initiative to tighten up laws on pornography , and all were in favour . |
| 27 | LAWS to tighten up control of strays take effect this week but anyone who expects to see the streets cleared of roaming dogs will be disappointed . |
| 28 | Mr Major has made a special effort to patch up relations with Germany . |
| 29 | These more co-operative instincts have led China in recent years to end military support for the Khmers Rouges in Cambodia , to patch up relations with India and extend a firmer hand of reconciliation to Taiwan ( see page 75 ) . |
| 30 | Conversion of NO 2 to HNO 3 therefore effectively removes NO x from the atmosphere and thus its potential to lock up chlorine in a nonreactive form . |