Example sentences of "push up [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem is , the competition 's become so fierce , it 's pushing up newspaper 's costs at an alarming rate . |
| 2 | Foreign investors have played a big part in pushing up share prices . |
| 3 | The latter could have a global impact , pushing up grain prices substantially . |
| 4 | And money in search of ‘ safe ’ growth stocks flooded into the shares of financial firms in the first quarter , pushing up bank shares by about 15% . |
| 5 | The French authorities had resisted pushing up interest rates despite the franc 's growing weakness in the European monetary system ( EMS ) exchange rate mechanism . |
| 6 | In addition , the creation of the UDC has pushed up property prices in the area , making it even more difficult for the residents . |
| 7 | The need to finance the cost of unity and damp down its inflationary effect has pushed up German — and therefore European — interest rates and exacerbated recession . |
| 8 | In addition , the very high demand in the early seventies may well have pushed up investment goods prices especially fast . |
| 9 | Conference he 's pushed up unemployment , he 's achieved cuts on training budgets and used training enterprise councils . |
| 10 | Notice also that this generalised sale of securities by banks is likely to have driven down their price and therefore to have pushed up interest rates . |
| 11 | On Jan. 13 , 1990 , the Treasurer , Paul Keating , announced a first relaxation of the restrictive monetary policy , which had pushed up interest rates to 18 per cent for mortgages and at least 20 per cent for other borrowing . |
| 12 | The rapid rise in the price of oil in the 1970s , for example , contributed to inflation in many countries around the world — oil price rises not only push up petrol prices , of course , but also affect the cost of all transport services and virtually all manufacturing and service industries . |
| 13 | We have looked at the attachment of motorists for their cars , the increasing use of heavy lorries , and the reasons why governments are reluctant to impose taxes which push up inflation and weaken an important manufacturing industry . |
| 14 | But a rates cut could hit the pound and push up inflation — the main worry for Bank of England Governor Robin Leigh-Pemberton . |
| 15 | Fellow director Eryl Morris underlined the need for productivity improvements : ‘ We have to put programmes in place to drive down costs and push up return on sales . ’ |
| 16 | And as we all know , bids push up share prices . |
| 17 | Push up back bed needles back to non-working position so that the back bed stitches are released from the machine . |
| 18 | There are also worries that increased public spending not only pushes up government borrowing to fund a high PSBR , but also leads to higher taxes , thereby reducing the incentives to work , save and take risks . |
| 19 | The Sun reported a ‘ Crime Wave of the ‘ Lib' ’ Girls ' ( 1 September , 1975 ) , while the Daily Mail claimed that ‘ Women 's Lib ‘ ‘ pushes up crime'' ’ ( 1 February , 1980 ) . |
| 20 | Ivory Coast crop dispute pushes up cocoa prices |
| 21 | Both high income commuters and lower income residents may resent development of this kind : the one because it interferes with their fantasy of the rural life , and the other because it pushes up house prices without providing any new job opportunities . |
| 22 | Inflation , the extravagance of Henry VIII , and the greed of his son 's councillors combined to push up expenditure . |
| 23 | It should be noted , though , that the government is making efforts to push up council house rents . |
| 24 | Neil Kinnock agrees ; he says high mortgage rates and the poll tax are bound to push up inflation rates even more . |
| 25 | Last winter 's storm damage pay outs have battered profits for the big insurance companies , and that threatens to push up house cover premiums . |
| 26 | Last winter 's storm damage pay-outs have battered profits for the big insurance companies , threatening to push up house cover premiums ; half-year profits for Sun Alliance show the firm £190,000,000 in the red , compared with 191,000,000 in profit at the same time last year . |
| 27 | The need is to push up Curve A over the guerrilla and terrorist bands , as shown by the arrow , while maintaining the current effectiveness of the nuclear deterrent , as represented by the pillar . |
| 28 | It is certainly the case that the rapid increase in materials prices would tend to push up investment goods prices ( which include an imported materials element ) faster than output prices ( which are defined to exclude the impact of import prices ) . |
| 29 | Instead , it tended to push up wage scales in unionized industries and subsequently pushed inflation even higher . |
| 30 | Cold weather pushed up energy prices by 13.6 per cent and fuel oil prices rose by 25.3 per cent , the largest rise since the oil crisis of 1974 . |