Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] up the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had described as " a fraud " the recent attempts under KGB chairman Gen. Vladimir Kryuchkov to clean up the KGB 's public image and stress its role in fighting genuine crime . |
| 2 | Thus re-established Gehlen returned to Germany on the winning side to head up the CIA 's new Cold War against Russia . |
| 3 | LIFFE was aware of plans to set up the DTB , and moved quickly to pre-empt its business in German long interest rates . |
| 4 | It was presented to the Aids organisation by Brian May , a guitarist in the group , and drummer Roger Taylor to set up the Freddie Mercury Memorial Trust . |
| 5 | In 1965 Lloyd went back to being Student 's editor , and Jim Haynes headed south to set up the London Traverse Company at the Jeanetta Cochrane Theatre in Holborn . |
| 6 | Everyone made it back to the rendezvous where they laid up for the day , returning in the evening to pick up the SBS group which had managed to deal with the radio station . |
| 7 | Public pressure on the Canadian and Quebec governments has resulted in the pledge of more than 2.4 billion dollars over the next 10 years to clean up the St Lawrence and create a marine sanctuary for the remaining belugas . |
| 8 | Cordial relations between the socialist General Workers ' Union ( UGT ) and the PSOE were resumed at a meeting , the first for five years , between UGT secretary-general Nicolás Redondo and PSOE deputy secretary-general Alfonso Guerra on Sept. 30 following a longstanding rift over government economic policy [ see pp. 36359-60 for Redondo 's 1988 refusal to take up the UGT seat on the PSOE executive ] . |
| 9 | Before Cook 's tours of Egypt , Victorian travellers hired their own boats to travel up the Nile . |
| 10 | But only a week ago she clashed with Mr Smith after he snubbed her request to wind up the Commons debate on the pit closures . |
| 11 | Aw , c'm on , it was just like that in Australia not long ago : one of the wire services reports in a condescending way that under local law , the National Institute of Industrial Property of Brazil recognises only the principle of priority in brand names , so that companies like IBM Corp , Xerox Corp and Sony Corp have had to ‘ buy back ’ their names before they could do business under them in Brazil ; the US is pressing Brazil to change the law to protect internationally recognised brand names — but it is not so long ago that , legend has it , an enterprising travelling Australian spotted that car hire was becoming big business , so when he got home , he registered the names Hertz and Avis , sold the Hertz name back to the company when it wanted to set up in Australia — and then used the cash he got from Hertz to set up the Avis concession in Australia . |
| 12 | One of the most enduring memories is of the Labour Government having to go to the International Monetary Fund , ‘ cap in hand ’ , to ask for a loan to prop up the UK 's sagging economy . |
| 13 | The film was a big success , partly because of its openness about sex ( made possible by the appointment of John Trevelyan to head up the BBFC ) , but also because the hero 's class resentment brought to the surface emotions that British cinema normally repressed . |
| 14 | In 1979 widespread disruptive action led the then Labour government to set up the May Inquiry , intended to be a major review of the entire prison system ( May , 1979 ) . |
| 15 | More typically , the Unionist belief in the Empire was set against the Liberal plans to break up the United Kingdom , as in the leaflet Under which flag ? of July 1914 : this made the comparison between Unionists who had fought in South Africa and Liberals who had been pro-Boer and who would now shoot loyal Ulstermen . |
| 16 | A project to clean up the Ganges which had started in 1985 had so far cost US$115 million and was due to be completed by the end of 1991 . |
| 17 | There was still an urgent need for an international effort to clean up the Gulf and to study the long-term effects of the spills and the burning , the organization said . |
| 18 | In the effort to spice up the Enya alliance , some journalists have made a meal out of ‘ menage a trois ’ speculation . |
| 19 | The merger plan was again abandoned , and Wilson began bankruptcy proceedings to wind up the BFs . |
| 20 | Success came when he defeated the SDP in 1987 by a slim majority to take up the Stockton South seat . |
| 21 | The EC also agreed to phase out limitations on their steel imports by March 31 , 1992 , in order to open up the EC to Third-World steel imports which flooded the US market . |
| 22 | A UN General Assembly resolution on Oct. 15 called on the Cambodian leaders to co-operate and to exercise self-restraint , and welcomed the agreement to set up the SNC and to send an SNC representative to occupy Cambodia 's seat . |