Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Temple also had a word of warning on the use of endowment policies to build up capital . |
| 2 | ‘ A while ago , the Federation of Family Support Groups set up advisers at some courts to distribute leaflets and give help to families of prisoners on the spot . |
| 3 | The new party leadership appealed on television for unity and national support and pledged its co-operation with opposition groups to draw up changes in the constitution and electoral law . |
| 4 | There were regular news reports of Hooligan gangs smashing up coffee-stalls and public houses , robbing and assaulting old ladies , attacking foreigners and setting upon policeman in the streets . |
| 5 | Ice will use clips from '70s blaxploitation movies to set up talking points for his guests . |
| 6 | Now police are warning farmers and horse owners to step up security until the attacker is found . |
| 7 | And they 're urging farmers and horse owners to step up security . |
| 8 | Fourth , high speed printers make up 30% of UK revenues . |
| 9 | Huggy Bear helps cheer up Harriet Picture : JEFF PITT |
| 10 | Four children who stroked Easter lambs picked up cryptosporidium … the same bug that contaminated some water supplies in the area four years ago . |
| 11 | Often health authorities intent on promoting their national drug companies force up prices . |
| 12 | THE AWARDS SHOW THEIR WORTH AS COMPUTER COMPANIES COME UP TRUMPS IN THIS YEAR 's LIST |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Eleven Halstead Rotaract members cleaned up part of the River Colne , between the mill and the town 's High Street before having a birthday party — in the middle of the flowing water . |
| 15 | They would live on desert racetracks linking up shelters ; it proved impossible to get hold of enough desert from angry human inhabitants . |
| 16 | Noses trawl along the formica sideboards hoovering up powder . |
| 17 | In solos you often find them used to thicken up and to add depth to single note lines ; in rhythm parts they are commonly used instead of large chord voicings to lighten up parts . |
| 18 | As an example , in Cambridge the Regional Authority community officers set up co-operatives in the belief that these were ‘ natural ’ and only lacked resources to succeed . |
| 19 | The removal of safety devices to speed up production , for instance , is often done with the tacit connivance of supervisors . |
| 20 | Two Scots with Cambridge connections took up Faraday 's work at last , trying to put it into mathematical form rather than to fit the discoveries into an existing theory ; and through their work came the great flowering of classical physics . |
| 21 | My father again had to part with his men , but , armed with a shovel and a pickaxe he was working on Rye marshes to put up defences against an invasion . |
| 22 | When electricity generators tackle acid rain with desulphurisation equipment or water authorities clean up beaches by improving sewage treatments plants , we all end up paying via our domestic bills . |
| 23 | Now the distinctness of the ALT patterns making up P and Q means that the sets of booleans unc and unc both partition the states satisfying b according to these shapes . |
| 24 | After a dull launch to the new season , London 's commercial art galleries pick up speed with a really exciting list of new exhibitions . |
| 25 | The Freight and Transport Association wants the E C to step in after French lorry drivers put up blockades in retaliation at protests by their Spanish counterparts over fuel prices . |
| 26 | The umbrella ants chew up leaves and use them for growing food . |
| 27 | Revenue from video cassettes pushed up Carlton Communications ' profit before tax by 15% to £102.3m in the year to 30 September 1992 . |
| 28 | Border runners build up mileage |
| 29 | Ken picks up street talk like Sunday newspaper diarists pick up gossip , late and usually third-hand . |
| 30 | Anglian DTI spokeswoman , Sarah Squire , said money taken from the EICS would be used to fund the new One Stop Shop scheme , where Training and Enterprise Councils set up consultancy services at a single location . |