Example sentences of "[verb] up the [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While in social terms this objective may be desirable , opening up the investment aids to reach an even wider range of farms could seriously exacerbate the agriculture/nature conservation conflict in the LFAs as more pastures and hay meadows are converted to grass leys , roughland improved agriculturally and wetlands drained although the reduction in drainage grants and the abolition of grants for land cultivation in December 1984 makes such an extension to smaller farms rather academic . |
| 2 | He explained that in 1886 he was making enquiries about the possibilities of opening up the canal routes to the south and was put in touch with a syndicate in London which was proposing to improve and develop these navigations . |
| 3 | It was apparent to me that a great deal more useful information could be derived from the FDR if the single parameter of pitch attitude could be added to the requirements , and I pressed this view very hard with the authorities when they drew up the UK regulations on the subject in 1964 . |
| 4 | If Campese misses the Wales Test at Cardiff Arms Park on November 22 , he may find consolation in the ad men who drew up the match posters being left with more egg on their faces than those who dreamed up George Bush 's ‘ four more years ’ slogan . |
| 5 | Wonderful ! — like tearing up the ration books . |
| 6 | Building on the core collection which once formed part of the outstanding collection of Sir Thomas Lawrence , Parker built up the Ashmolean prints and drawings collection into one of the world 's finest . |
| 7 | England did not seem to believe that Spanish-based Tab Ramos could juggle it back from the bye-line and when he did , no-one had picked up the 6ft 1ins Kaiserlauten defender as he powered his header past Chris Woods . |
| 8 | UNIT had been routinely monitoring the signals in the area and had picked up the SOS messages from the passenger aircraft . |
| 9 | Reluctant to brave the corridor again in case the conspirators emerged and caught her , she turned sharply and fled up the tower stairs , just one thought uppermost in her mind . |
| 10 | Jane Kennedy ( Labour ) pressed him on the recent article in the Independent , which stated that ministers had privately said they intended to issue new guidelines to family doctors to tighten up the eligibility criteria for the benefit . |
| 11 | I watched Tafari 's son , Asfa Wossen , being carried up the Legation steps in a red cradle hung round the neck of his servant , while a large escort of armed retainers dispersed down the drive . |
| 12 | One holds up the east-west streets . |
| 13 | Instead she made him stop in the next street ; she did n't want Uncle Vernon storming up the basement steps and putting his oar in . |
| 14 | Walking down Oxford Street in August , watching the tourists snap up the pirate editions of ‘ Frankie Says Arm The Unemployed ’ I decided this was the final triumph of the ‘ new pop ’ , the eclipse of content by form . |
| 15 | Other insects hear through clumps of hairs or special antennae which work by detecting the movement of the vibrating air molecules instead of picking up the pressure waves of sound . |
| 16 | Over at Robinsgrove , finding no water to hose down the ponies , Perdita put them in their boxes and , having given them their hay nets and filled up the water buckets from the water trough , raced off to Dancer 's for a swim . |
| 17 | Small wonder that green products , halfway genuine or frankly fake , are filling up the supermarket shelves . |
| 18 | Following the government retreat over the terms of the Directive in 1988 it was estimated that Anglian would have to spend £60-£70 million over the following 10 years to clean up the water supplies of Bedford and Norwich , along with a total 25 supplies that had been subject to derogations . |
| 19 | An effort was made to clean up the water supplies , thereby helping to reduce the transmission of water-borne agents of disease : between 1972 and 1990 , almost 1 million handpump tubewells were installed in Bangladesh . |
| 20 | We will break up the monopoly providers of services such as British Telecom and British Gas . |
| 21 | That means looking up the tide tables to see the times of high and low water and the tidal stream list to find the maximum rates . |
| 22 | to pick up the lunch papers and er anyway one , one night I was wa walking across and er my dad called out what you doing ? |
| 23 | And then of course they 've got this soldering iron type thing called the diathermy cautery device that seals up the blood vessels and this is being stabbed into her . |
| 24 | Only half a generation later the Dutch had found them in Borneo and more were revealed in 1829 in the Urals as part of the Russian drive to open up the mineral resources of the interior . |
| 25 | At the point where the program is trying to set up the tutorial files it reports that it is unable to find ‘ Festina Text ’ and skips the entire operation . |
| 26 | At eleven she asked Janice , her PA , to set up the flip charts in the conference room . |
| 27 | The motivation behind making central funding available to set up the alumni bodies seems to be an elaboration of the same theme . |
| 28 | You may have noticed that the dialogue boxes used to set up the Program Groups and Program Item both have a Password option . |
| 29 | We were closely involved in trying to set up the transport arrangements : we had to get the airforce to ferry the pieces from Phnom Penh to Bangkok and then the Australian national carrier Qantas to bring them to Australia . ’ |
| 30 | On arrival Rick and I walked around the lake and chose two likely looking swims towards the bottom end near the dam where we proceeded to set up the carp rods . |