Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] up the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In France there had already been speculation , followed by disaster , when John Law persuaded the government to unite all the French colonies into a single vast Company for trading up the Mississippi and in the Indies , which was then used as the base for a wild expansion of the French currency . |
| 2 | The same place she 'd gone after driving up the Dersingham 's drive on Saturday morning ? |
| 3 | It seems likely , therefore , that in the process of drawing up the Feoda , as clerks and local lords decided under which heading most fief-holders should appear , they helped to crystallize the castellanies . |
| 4 | I made enquiries recently about the amount of topping up the DSS would do and was told that the maximum amount is £170 per week . |
| 5 | In some bureaux , the workers themselves have the task of writing up the JPR which must be signed as accurate by the worker and the bureau manager . |
| 6 | The French won but it was a Pyrrhic victory and their victorious momentum was lost ; they contented themselves with sailing up the Ouse , burning settlements on the way and anchoring within sight of the town before they withdrew . |
| 7 | There were no regulations to prevent people from walking up the Balmoral side of the mountain when the Queen was not staying at the castle , and Richard had chosen a long ascent from the Balmoral side for the sake of privacy . |
| 8 | He arrived home from picking up the Sunday morning bagels and the lad from Sunday school , to find his study full of arc lamps and white coats , and to have his sleeve wrenched unceremoniously up and a needle shoved in his vein . |
| 9 | ( c ) 1923 Party Seats Conservative 258 Labour 191 Liberal 159 Others Several outcomes were theoretically possible , but neither Labour ( under MacDonald ) nor the Conservatives ( under Baldwin , who had played an important part in breaking up the Lloyd George coalition in 1922 ) would countenance a coalition . |
| 10 | However , the firm made a mistake in buying up the Laker Holidays label and trying to revive it in an effort to diversify its operating base . |
| 11 | French resolve against Libyan-inspired terrorism , which was in doubt during the US raid in 1986 , has been stiffened by Libya 's action in blowing up the UTA flight from Brazzaville to Paris on Sept 19 , 1989 , in which 171 died . |
| 12 | Doing Ophelia on stage before taking up the BBC contract meant that I went there with a little track record — I 'd been blooded , if you like , and it made the whole thing a lot better . |
| 13 | The growth in fundholding poses problems for negotiations and the first moves in setting up the Grampian Association of Fundholding Practices are under way . |
| 14 | The different degrees and sources of political power of the hospital consultants on the one hand and the general practitioners on the other were skilfully exploited by Bevan in setting up the NHS . |
| 15 | His contributions included his work with Scripture Union , his long association with Cambridge University Mission , and his leading role with Andy Pierssene in setting up the Oxford Boys ' Club Trust . |
| 16 | We share your concern about the lack of professional training and accreditation but would draw your attention to the joint efforts of the Association of Police Surgeons and the Association of Chief Police Officers in setting up the Durham introductory course for police surgeons . |
| 17 | It then had the good fortune of lengthy bureaucratic delays in setting up the DTB in Frankfurt , which enabled LIFFE to establish a very liquid Bund contract market . |
| 18 | On 20 September 1791 , trustees for taking up the Camden lease were appointed . |
| 19 | Clearly , the £250,000 reputably spent each year on shoring up the LTA 's publishing ego trip could be much better spend elsewhere . |
| 20 | Greenpeace also accuses the government of not complying with international agreements signed by Britain , such as the 1974 Paris Convention on cleaning up the North Sea . |
| 21 | The facilities start with a remote switch socket for connecting the optional FC6 foot controller , offering remote switching without tying up the MIDI in socket ( I tried the FC6 but found it more suited to a keyboard player , so would recommend a standard MIDI switching pedal ) . |
| 22 | For its part , the Phnom Penh government insisted that the " obstacle " of the former ruler must not be allowed to hold up the peace process , and denied that he had to be SNC chair under September 's Jakarta agreement on setting up the SNC . |
| 23 | If I 'm not very much mistaken , they would be for packing up the Presley hoard in . ’ |
| 24 | There were clear political reasons for setting up the LDDC and other Urban Development Corporations , and for deciding the way in which they conduct their affairs . |
| 25 | The following text takes you step-by-step through setting up the LSTRAIN process ; to set up further processes , just follow the same instructions , substituting the name of the new process for LSTRAIN . |
| 26 | Dr. Tolba , widely respected for the critical role played by UNIP in achieving the Montreal Protocol on ozone depletion , is looking forward to the London Conference on Climate next June aimed at toughening up the Montreal guidelines . |
| 27 | Even the written word , by conjuring up the Eliot tone of voice , could express this kind of humorous gravity , for example , his remark in the ‘ Dialogue on Dramatic Poetry ’ that ‘ we can not spend all our time reading large philosophical works ’ . |
| 28 | If the Government argues against full disclosure of information , it will be undermining the credibility of its environment policy almost as much as by splitting up the NCC . |
| 29 | Even as AT&T decentralised and halved its hourly workforce from the size it was when the government gave the firm its present shape by breaking up the Bell system in 1984 , AT&T has set up hundreds of worker-manager committees — on quality control , re-engineering its operations and a host of other issues . |
| 30 | By strolling up the Waterfall Road one can see first the old Lime Kiln and then higher up the Cranny Waterfalls . |