Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [verb] up [noun sg] " 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 | Ice will use clips from '70s blaxploitation movies to set up talking points for his guests . |
| 3 | Now police are warning farmers and horse owners to step up security until the attacker is found . |
| 4 | And they 're urging farmers and horse owners to step up security . |
| 5 | Four children who stroked Easter lambs picked up cryptosporidium … the same bug that contaminated some water supplies in the area four years ago . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Noses trawl along the formica sideboards hoovering up powder . |
| 8 | The removal of safety devices to speed up production , for instance , is often done with the tacit connivance of supervisors . |
| 9 | After a dull launch to the new season , London 's commercial art galleries pick up speed with a really exciting list of new exhibitions . |
| 10 | Border runners build up mileage |
| 11 | Ken picks up street talk like Sunday newspaper diarists pick up gossip , late and usually third-hand . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Something in her drank in his savage juices , as the mango trees suck up rain , and , in her turn , she spurted liquid from every pore and orifice . |
| 14 | CACI used computer techniques to build up shopping centre analyses from raw data which covered a representative sample of all retail activity . |
| 15 | Suitable ward-based projects give the student opportunities to set up traction or to practise orthopaedic procedures . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The Government is promising to review the laws that have enabled tens of thousands of new age hippies to set up camp on common land . |
| 19 | The obvious area for development was for the group actively to seek Manpower Services Commission monies to set up employment creation projects and to use those funds to establish self-sustaining ventures as certain other projects in the area had done . |
| 20 | Article 22 should be used by the Agriculture Departments to set up farm pilot schemes showing how a wide range of objectives of the broadened farm development plan can be achieved , including nature and landscape objectives . |
| 21 | Similarly , as the discount houses take up Treasury bills from the tender on the Friday of the previous week , net payment will be made to the Bank from the rest of the banking system . |
| 22 | Financial institutions such as building societies , banks and insurance companies bought up estate agents to build national networks of offices in which they could sell housing-related financial services . |
| 23 | In the days of calculators and computers , we no longer use log tables to speed up hand calculations . |
| 24 | Eradication of H pylori speeds up ulcer healing , with a six week healing rate of 84.9% compared with 60% in patients with persistent H pylori infection ( p=0.0148 ) . |
| 25 | As the law requiring £40 landowners to take up knighthood was seldom observed , the sumptuary acts conceded that it was reasonable for the many men who did not choose to do so to adopt the dress appropriate to the standard of living they must certainly have enjoyed . |
| 26 | When he urged the pieds noirs to give up integration , when he ordered the army to remain loyal , when he appealed to the FLN to lay down their arms and negotiate , he evoked not just the powers and responsibilities of his office but the confidence that they should have in the person of himself , General de Gaulle . |
| 27 | It is the role of the county councils to draw up structure plans which contain strategic policies and general proposals for the development and other use of land in their areas . |
| 28 | SOCCER IS CLEARED IN SEX CASE ‘ Grudge boys made up story' ( Star ) ; SEX CASE JOHN BULL CLEARED ( Sun ) ; FOOTBALL MASCOT IS CLEARED ( Daily Mirror ) . |
| 29 | like toy soldiers giving up life . |
| 30 | According to Werner Behrens of UNIDO , the software will standardise the way countries draw up feasibility studies for development projects funded by , for example , the World Bank or the US 's Agency for International Development . |