Example sentences of "[be] [verb] up [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | POLICE are stepping up patrols on Wrexham industrial estate after a spate of factory break-ins in which office equipment and other property was stolen . |
| 2 | The recession has clearly presented good buying opportunities to Prospect Industries though Philip Wilbraham denies he is a vulture purchaser who has been picking up bargains on the cheap . |
| 3 | Over the last year an extra 29,000 inpatients and 8,500 day case patients were treated up 6pc on the previous year 's total of 588,000 . |
| 4 | AN MP is keeping up pressure on the Government to improve East Anglia 's coastal defences after last month 's surge tide which resulted in widespread flooding . |
| 5 | THE VATICAN is to step up pressure on Mikhail Gorbachev with a demand by the Pope for the legalisation of the Ukranian Catholic Church , church sources said yesterday . |
| 6 | The conspiracy theory of racism makes sense of a particular social reality : it is because the police force , which is supposed to uphold justice and protect ethnic minorities from racist attacks , is itself responsible for so much of the violence and injustice suffered by black communities that it is experienced as being part of the same oppressive system as the gang of white unemployed youth who are beating up people on the street . |
| 7 | A couple of weeks after the arrests , a lawyer in the Belfast office of the Treasury Solicitor was drawing up charges on the basis of the presence of the pistol when a senior police official ordered him to prepare fresh indictments charging them with murdering three specified Roman Catholics . |
| 8 | Two fur traders from the French settlement of New France on the banks of the St. Lawrence had been trying to convince their employers that the best way to develop the trade was to set up bases on Hudson Bay to which the Indians could come in their canoes down all the rivers that flowed into the Bay . |
| 9 | In its place the aim was to build up communities on the periphery equipped with all the necessary facilities , including local employment and to set a firm limit to the size of these communities . |