Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FIRST-TIME buyers are queueing to snap up homes for a £1 down-payment . |
| 2 | Physiotherapy and anti-inflammatory tablets are helping to clear up tendonitis which forced him to return home early from Majorca earlier this month . |
| 3 | Omnidirectional microphones are designed to pick up sound equally in all directions ; the one on your camcorder may be omnidirectional . |
| 4 | Private firms are expected to stump up £400 million of the Pounds 1.8 billion cost of the 10-mile route . |
| 5 | Hugh Geach , head of programme support services at Television South , explains : ‘ Everything the Government has done has been designed to open up television to market forces , to encourage new channels and competition for advertising . |
| 6 | Only this weekend , industrial users in the electricity industry have been looking to break up power generators and introduce competition , and there is a suggestion that the Director General of Electricity Supply might yet refer the electricity industry to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission on the issue of industrial prices , as happened with British Gas . |
| 7 | Microphones are built to pick up sound from specific directions . |
| 8 | It is here that efforts have been made to open up resources to working-class communities and/or to provide access into educational institutions . |
| 9 | A good deal of money has been made tarting up riverside and bank top pubs to take account of the new ambiance and to cater to the non-industrial affluent . |
| 10 | But with the exception of Aviemore in Scotland , no serious attempt has been made to set up leisure communities in Britain . |
| 11 | Yet Nixon continued to maintain his innocence : on 22 May , he stated that " I took no part in , nor was I aware of any subsequent effort that may have been made to cover up Watergate . " |
| 12 | They said in the shop that the men who did it had been pretending to take up paving stones — nobody thought anything because it looked as if they were from the Council . ’ |
| 13 | However , where attempts are made to build up monopoly by merger there has been a heightened awareness of the inherent dangers , and governments have been more willing to take direct action to prohibit them . |
| 14 | In that space of time you 're going to build up hatred . |
| 15 | Ridging ploughs , with double ( left and right ) mould-boards , are used to set up ridges for potatoes and roots . |
| 16 | They are used to cut up turf and consolidate a seed-bed , particularly after ploughing an old sward . |
| 17 | The money had been used to prop up Serbia 's collapsing economy through subsidies to cover salaries in loss-making enterprises , farm subsidies , and increases in pensions . |
| 18 | ‘ If you are going to set up things for volunteers , you need to make sure that you 've got your act together because otherwise , if they just turn up and muddle along , they wo n't stay . |
| 19 | Neil Kinnock agrees ; he says high mortgage rates and the poll tax are bound to push up inflation rates even more . |
| 20 | ‘ Look how little money we are getting to clean up Chernobyl ’ , was the complaint during last week 's strikes in Minsk . |
| 21 | Christians had been compelled to give up meetings for corporate worship , but still kept up small prayer meetings in houses . |
| 22 | ’ Dancing rooms have been compelled to shut up shop , public houses have been emptied , desperate characters reclaimed and a corps of 100 brave salvationists has been formed . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ We 've got basic furniture , equipment and stationery ; the telephone people are here and the gas people are coming to fix up radiators . ’ |
| 24 | A working party is to be formed to draw up opposition to the plan , for presentation to the Welsh Office . |
| 25 | You will not be permitted to take up employment in order to help support yourself . |
| 26 | Every attempt will be made to open up dialogue with the kidnappers and to stall them long enough to trace where your wife and daughter are being held . |
| 27 | It should be emphasized that much information gained from petrofabric research can be used to back up field studies and forms an aid to provenance studies , including facies analysis and construction of depositional models ; these applications are commonly lost amongst an ever-growing number of papers solely on aspects of diagenesis . |
| 28 | In practice a somewhat smaller interval can be used to speed up calculations . |
| 29 | This was the one constraint on the expressions which could be used to set up trusts ; and it is this which explains their unexpected prominence in the discussions of the jurists . |
| 30 | They can be used to completely encompass a big warren system , they can be used to divide up areas of woodland and they can be operated both at night and by day when conditions are favourable . |