Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [verb] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a first step , joint financing has been arranged for cleaning up the Dnepr river , one of the main polluters of the Black Sea . |
| 2 | A volcano has even been blamed for speeding up the onset of the last Ice Age . |
| 3 | Berle hoped to have the British blamed for breaking up the conference , as he knew he had the support of the Latin American states and some European countries . |
| 4 | I apologise for taking up the time of the House . |
| 5 | We helped with putting up the shelves and we filled all the bottles in each shop . |
| 6 | But they do not believe the solution lies in taking up the 15,000 tonne haddock quota available off the west of Scotland . |
| 7 | Aware of German determination to maintain control over the currency , the Commission gave Pöhl a decisive say in drawing up the draft statutes of the proposed European Central Bank . |
| 8 | These would have been largely overcome had a similar approach to that used in setting up the " persons " system been adopted . |
| 9 | A spokesman stressed that the government was still committed to setting up the agency ( one of the commitments in the Conservatives ' election manifesto ) , and that the necessary bill would be introduced later in 1992 or in 1993 . |
| 10 | It did not challenge the essentials of the system between the wars but concentrated on edging up the maximum wage and stressing the benefits of belonging to a mutual aid society for sickness or injury . |
| 11 | This was solved by setting up the first stall run by the eldest most respected woman in the village . |
| 12 | Notice that the thought that in principle a would-be rapist should be compensated for giving up the right to rape is implicit in the answer of the supporters of the third principle as well . |
| 13 | Instead of having to come home from work and worry about wrapping up the Christmas presents , or writing letters to friends , or having a long conversation with someone in the family who needs a bit of support , and fitting all that in after the children have gone to bed and the supper 's been washed up and you really ought to be reading papers for tomorrow 's meeting , I know I have a chunk of time when I can get on with doing all that . |
| 14 | In addition to the general comments and proposals that the Environment Select Committee made about tightening up the approach to dealing with toxic and hazardous waste , it said that an environmental protection agency should be set up . |
| 15 | The UN Security Council imposed an air and arms embargo on Libya last year in an effort to force the surrender of two men suspected of blowing up the American airliner over Lockerbie in 1988 . |
| 16 | The new guidelines aim to give added protection to the countryside while at the same time promoting In drawing up the guidelines , planners accept that golf can have a major impact on countryside amenities , which , they claim , must be weighed against considerable economic and recreational benefit . |
| 17 | But Louis was prepared to take a much tougher line with the count of Nevers to resolve his dispute with the abbey of Vézelay : although relatives of the count were allowed to participate in drawing up the terms of settlement , Louis insisted that , if it failed , further aggression against the abbey would be treated as aggression against the king and punished accordingly . |
| 18 | It is recognized that any programme of improving information management will cost money , in the form of staff and equipment , but any money spent will result in opening up the wealth of our information resources to larger numbers of people . |
| 19 | It commented in the same year that , ‘ while recognizing the considerable contribution that Mr Hornby has made in building up the Council to its present position of eminence within the colleges , it was now time for the CNAA 's influence to be more widely felt ’ . |
| 20 | When it came to setting up the Friends , I found the words ‘ realistic ’ or ‘ moderation ’ did n't have much meaning for me . |
| 21 | Then a start was made on rounding up the C grade , those who were known incongruously as ‘ friendly enemy aliens ’ . |
| 22 | Sister Imelda , the only nun in the convent who was good with the needle , had been in her sick bed so a very poor job had been done on taking up the hem . |
| 23 | Tubifex is collected by scooping up the mud patch containing the worms , and then washing the mud away to leave clean worms which tend to gather in a tight ball . |
| 24 | The T&L empire grew out of the merger in the 1920s of East End sugar refineries owned by Henry Tate and Abram Lyle , and expanded by fattening up the nation with calories . |
| 25 | Another weaving tool is the weaving batten , of bone or iron , used for beating up the weft . |
| 26 | Here 's an end to worrying about totting up the calories in food and wondering whether you are eating the right thing . |
| 27 | Amidst such confusion as this , however , the press was more commonly inclined to shout down the leniency of magistrates , or ‘ this appalling apathy on the part of the police ’ , because if in some quarters the press were accused of bulling up the Hooligan affair , elsewhere the police were said to be playing it down . |
| 28 | Mendoza had been accused of covering up the 1985 kidnapping and murder , allegedly by a police intelligence unit , of three members of the Chilean Communist party [ for April 1992 arrest of Mendoza see pp. 38860-61 ] . |
| 29 | This consisted of cutting up the body into pieces and boiling it in wine or vinegar until fat and flesh separated from the bones . |
| 30 | Among these , according to Fedor Polenov , Head of the Russian Delegation and Chairman of the Russian Supreme Soviet Commission for Culture , is the intention on the German side to give Russia a number of works from the Bremen Collection for Russian museums , and also to give financial and technical aid for the restoration of the Novgorod Museum and Park , and to help in making up the museums collection which was destroyed during the war . |