Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] up [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | SA anti-apartheid groups vow to step up struggle . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Nor should this be an excuse to try to carve up Genesis to fit a theory — about the evolution of religion or anything else . |
| 5 | Does Steven stay to wrap up report he planned to wrap up before lunch or leave it till next day ? |
| 6 | First , Gare has set up customer and market groups for electricity transmission and distribution ; power generation ; nuclear fuel enrichment and reprocessing ; and pharmaceutical research . |
| 7 | In the meantime , the insurance industry has set up Pool Re , which began collecting premium income in January . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Banbury West End Club has signed up world ranked players , including Neil Borwick from Australia , who 's 123rd . |
| 10 | The first days of the war saw the Saltash Territorials ordered to break up camp at Exeter and proceed to Falmouth . |
| 11 | The car began to pick up speed , and Jessamy glanced out of the window . |
| 12 | I had imagined that friendship meant giving up privacy , and closeness meant complete submersion in the other person . |
| 13 | Scots fail to keep up challenge |
| 14 | They are a side trying to build up confidence at the moment . |
| 15 | The procedure originated to deal with circumstances where parties wish to set up machinery for determining a price without negotiations , often where the obligation to make a payment arises in the future , as with options . |
| 16 | Well yes , because in the schools now they 've started erm some of the schools have taken up celebration , Divali which is coming up in November and erm they celebrate some of the other festivals as well . |
| 17 | Sales will be direct and via existing third-party distributors , though ICL plans to sign up specialist Unix and office software VARs in all regions . |
| 18 | In addition , the Council agreed to put up cycle/ pedestrian direction signs at suitable locations nearby , so that people , local or not , are aware of the path 's existence . |
| 19 | Merrydown has bumped up production facilities to cope with the expected demand . |
| 20 | a body corporate which has more than 20 members ( or is the subsidiary of a holding company which has more than 20 members ) and it , or any of its holding companies or subsidiaries has called up share capital or net assets of not less than 500,000 |
| 21 | The shoal has taken up residence in one particular area of the canal and are congregating in a 6ft deep hole a yard from the far bank reed bed at Plex Lane . |
| 22 | ‘ The close proximity of the other design companies has opened up business opportunities for us , ’ says Rita Brophy , marketing manager of graphic design company Stylehaus . |
| 23 | The announcement everyone had been waiting for came on time as British Telecom proposed to put up telephone bills by five per cent . |
| 24 | In addition , the creation of the UDC has pushed up property prices in the area , making it even more difficult for the residents . |
| 25 | Nakane 's work has a more voluntaristic approach , but even she writes about the assertive techniques that management uses to build up company identification of workers . |
| 26 | Tan accelerators claim to speed up production of melanin — the pigment produced by your skin in the sun — but there 's no evidence that they work . |
| 27 | Out of the former PNI , Sukarno had taken up partindo , and within one year its membership soared to 20000 . |
| 28 | However much she was questioned , Edna had shut up shop , as it were , whenever Celia mentioned her mother . |
| 29 | In the last government scandal — the Muldergate affair in the late 70s — Mr Botha , was forced to fire a judicial inquiry because the judge refused to cover up corruption . |
| 30 | Two American companies with an eye on available and inexpensive manpower have set up software export units in the southern hill city of Bangalore , India 's own Silicon Valley . |