Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bolney Estates agreed to take up £1,000 worth and others agreed to buy a further £3,000 worth . |
| 2 | Much of discussion at the talks centred on Kuwait 's attempts to continue building up production as Gulf war damage to its oilfields was repaired . |
| 3 | Enemies unite to clean up Caribbean |
| 4 | SA anti-apartheid groups vow to step up struggle . |
| 5 | We hope that you enjoy this issue and we would like to encourage all women artists to continue to send up details about your exhibitions and events for inclusion in our extensive listings . |
| 6 | The main stumbling block was a demand by Kuwait to be given freedom to continue building up production to cover a $50 billion bill for the Gulf war and subsequent reconstruction costs . |
| 7 | Nor should this be an excuse to try to carve up Genesis to fit a theory — about the evolution of religion or anything else . |
| 8 | For example , ICI has set up schemes around the world to recover and recycle CFCs , with the aim of being able to reduce their production . |
| 9 | DEC has firmed up plans for its new chip plant to fabricate the Alpha RISC , and now says it will definitely build a $425m 526,000-square-foot research and manufacturing facility in Hudson , Massachusetts . |
| 10 | The Guardian 's cartoonist showed one health official saying to another : ‘ These regional days of action are so badly organized that Len Murray has to ring up Norman Fowler to ask where they are being held . ’ |
| 11 | The researchers tried to bump up numbers by installing large wooden nest boxes ( 0.5 m x 0.5 m x 1.0m ) on the top of telegraph poles throughout three plantations . |
| 12 | SCRIPTWRITER David Yallop planned to pep up EastEnders by killing off Pete Beale with an IRA bomb . |
| 13 | Does Steven stay to wrap up report he planned to wrap up before lunch or leave it till next day ? |
| 14 | General Philippe Morillon has set up headquarters in the town , which has been under Serb siege for 11 months , according to Laurens Jolles , of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees . |
| 15 | First , Gare has set up customer and market groups for electricity transmission and distribution ; power generation ; nuclear fuel enrichment and reprocessing ; and pharmaceutical research . |
| 16 | In the meantime , the insurance industry has set up Pool Re , which began collecting premium income in January . |
| 17 | The very speed of the upswing helped to push up prices because bottlenecks developed , the prices of those goods rose and ‘ feed-through ’ effects followed . |
| 18 | The LDDC has opened up committees to the public . |
| 19 | The need to finance the cost of unity and damp down its inflationary effect has pushed up German — and therefore European — interest rates and exacerbated recession . |
| 20 | Interactive Development Environments has set up IDE Canada in Toronto to handle direct sales and support operations for its CASE products . |
| 21 | Banbury West End Club has signed up world ranked players , including Neil Borwick from Australia , who 's 123rd . |
| 22 | Above : This camcorder comes with a detachable 6-watt video light to help brighten up shots taken in dark conditions . |
| 23 | Supermodels such as Linda Evangelista — used to commanding at least £10,000 just to get out of bed — Naomi Campbell and Claudia Schiffer , who have dominated the world of glamour for so long , will face tough competition as designer labels clamour to sign up actresses Michelle Pfeiffer , Geena Davis and Kim Basinger . |
| 24 | The first days of the war saw the Saltash Territorials ordered to break up camp at Exeter and proceed to Falmouth . |
| 25 | The car began to pick up speed , and Jessamy glanced out of the window . |
| 26 | After three days of talks in Islamabad on Nov. 4-6 , Bangladesh and Pakistan decided to set up committees in each other 's capitals to review the implementation of economic and trade relations as outlined by the Joint Economic Commission . |
| 27 | This research aims to open up Ortega 's multi-faceted life and character so as to reveal his philosophical innovations and sociological contributions . |
| 28 | In addition , as they go up through the school , pupils , whether visually handicapped or not , will increasingly be required to undertake independent study involving looking up references and using graphic information such as charts and diagrams . |
| 29 | I had imagined that friendship meant giving up privacy , and closeness meant complete submersion in the other person . |
| 30 | Scots fail to keep up challenge |