Example sentences of "up price " in BNC.
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| 1 | Call for EC to put up price of smoking |
| 2 | Allied subsidiary Ansells put up prices by six to eight pence in Wales . |
| 3 | Difficult market conditions were exacerbated when Korean tanners entered the UK and New Zealand raw material markets , driving up prices . |
| 4 | THIS year 's machinations over disposal of the Ivory Coast 's cocoa crop indirectly pushed up prices on the London Futures & Options Exchange yesterday as dealers scrambled to obtain cocoa to deliver against a substantial long position controlled by Philipp Brothers , the big American commodity trading group . |
| 5 | Greek bidders descended on the sale yesterday and drove up prices . |
| 6 | Some bought more houses , pushing up prices . |
| 7 | European exporters have pushed up prices in both countries to protect margins . |
| 8 | But the policemen sent to see that shops obeyed the rule had little work to do : there was no money to push up prices . |
| 9 | Businesses will then put up prices to pay for the wage increases . |
| 10 | A whole new service industry — office design — has sprung up in the city , and the demand for furniture , secretaries and commercial space has pushed up prices . |
| 11 | Some stockbrokers had remained open overnight and marked up prices as results were declared . |
| 12 | That does n't just mean using a cash register , giving the correct change and adding up prices , although of course these are important . |
| 13 | The coming world shortage was bound to put up prices , he said . |
| 14 | Often health authorities intent on promoting their national drug companies force up prices . |
| 15 | It destroys the point of the exercise by driving up prices and disrupting the metals market . ’ |
| 16 | From that moment the software companies said they were forced to keep up prices because of the hackers . |
| 17 | Severe winters , of course , hit the poor twice over : those who survived the effects of the frost and snow might well die of malnutrition as the resultant disastrous harvest reduced the amount of food available and forced up prices . |
| 18 | After a dip caused by the 1981–83 recession , the publication of a definitive catalogue by Hans Nadelhofer helped push up prices , and by 1985 a the third ‘ Portico ’ mystery clock ( from an edition of six ) achieved a new world record of $400,000 for a Cartier piece . |
| 19 | Although Bill Gates has apparently firmed up prices for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT operating system , they still are n't finalised , according to the company . |
| 20 | BILL GATES FRIMS UP PRICES FOR WINDOWS NT |
| 21 | Bill Gates has firmed up prices for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT operating system , but the first ships date has moved off into the future again , and ‘ no later than ’ August 1 is the new target : according to Gates , in comments reported in PC Week , large corporate customers looking to upgrade from Windows 3 to NT will be able to do so for less than $100 per desktop — the upgrade price for Windows users will be $300 , which translates to $180 ‘ on the street ’ and less than ‘ $100 per system ’ after deep volume discounts , Gates told a meeting of the Corporate Association of Microcomputer Professionals in Chicago ; OS/2 users will be offered ‘ extremely low prices ; ’ NT 's suggested retail price for new — desktop — users will be $500 ; more bad news is that memory requirements are continuing to soar — Gates last week recommended that NT users install 16Mb on their desktop machines , even though the documentation may specify 12Mb — and no more than about 10% of 80486 machines have 16Mb ; servers could require more than 16Mb , he added ; initial NT buyers will need to have specific applications in mind for it — ‘ If you do n't know why you want NT , you probably do n't want NT , ’ he said . |
| 22 | No ceiling The revival in house sales is starting to push up prices . |
| 23 | Partly this is due to recession and to consumer-goods firms jacking up prices on many brands until there is a huge discrepancy with own-label rivals . |
| 24 | It also shows that , when Russian enterprises reacted to the reforms by jacking up prices and withholding output , they were not doing so because they could not adapt to the bewildering change around them ; they were reacting to the incentives they faced , which said that goods were stores of value while money was not . |
| 25 | Even if the workers themselves made no contribution to the scheme it was argued that the cost of family allowance schemes to the employers would be used by them as an excuse to reduce wages or at least hold back wage increases or to put up prices . |
| 26 | While these people are sitting on committees hammering the plans into a synthetic budget which nobody can achieve , the Profitboss is out on the street making a profit , putting up prices , discounting prices , pushing the market , pulling the market . |
| 27 | Surplus crops in wheat , cotton and wool were bought up by government-financed Stabilization Corporations , in an attempt to keep up prices in these commodities . |
| 28 | A general attempt to reduce money holdings in this way adds to the demand for these alternative financial assets , pushing up prices and pushing down yields . |
| 29 | That high demand tends to push up prices . |
| 30 | I accept that , at present , they are high — only slightly below unleaded petrol prices — but , as the hon. Gentleman knows , that is because the demand for gas oil , which is equivalent to diesel , is high at this time of year as it is used for heating and high demand tends to push up prices . |