Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [verb] up a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gossips say Aspreys has picked up a 6.8% stake from banker Robert Fleming and 30% shareholder House of Fraser , which owns Harrods , is keen to sell . |
| 2 | Instead , the government and insurers agreed to set up a special fund . |
| 3 | Meanwhile the supporters want to set up a petition encouraging Flashman to go . |
| 4 | A newspaper report that the multi-millionaire Barclay brothers had built up a 3 per cent stake in Williams and were thinking of a full bid at 300p a share sent the price soaring 58p to 283p . |
| 5 | In many cases the becak drivers have put up a fight to prevent their livelihood from being carted off . |
| 6 | Even among those who stated their overall dissatisfaction , when asked to indicate their reasons , less than a quarter cited high charges as the reason ( service or errors made racked up a much higher 38 per cent ) . |
| 7 | It has been suggested that the prevalent west and south-west winds tend to set up a longshore drift towards Portland , so that the majority of coarse material accumulates at that end . |
| 8 | The two companies decided to set up a joint research and development project to find a system which would meet the new standards in a cost-effective way , and Project Alaska was born . |
| 9 | The two countries had built up a clandestine network of military links , with Israel frequently accused of breaking the UN Security Council arms embargo . |
| 10 | The previous day the Yugoslavs had put up a proclamation in Klagenfurt claiming that Carinthia was part of Yugoslavia . |
| 11 | The floods of past winters had piled up a huge logjam just below a fishing lodge on the River Usk , and a female mink had set up her den there . |
| 12 | Ellen tapped her heel , where the strap of a new pair of sandals had rubbed up a blister . |
| 13 | Her parents have set up a trust fund and this competition . |
| 14 | ‘ The new production quotas have stirred up a hornet 's nest — and that 's without the added difficulty of a flu epidemic . ’ |
| 15 | The largest companies have drawn up a criteria which demand inter alia that new book purchases must be based on a stock turn of one year ( in other words , the whole print run has to sell out within one year of US publication ) and that the projected gross margin must not be less than 50% . |
| 16 | TWO Lanarkshire businessmen have set up a reprographics firm which aims to compete with Middle and Far East firms for orders originating in Scotland , writes John Hatfield . |
| 17 | The first cover story for the airstrip was that a group of businessmen wanted to start up a tourist resort there . |
| 18 | In 1961 the British and French governments agreed to set up a working group to consider the merits of the rival proposals and at the beginning of 1964 Ernest Marples , the British Transport Minister , and his French counterpart announced that the two governments would go ahead with a tunnel . |
| 19 | The BHS on behalf of the other organisations plans to set up a data base which will include details provided on such thefts from owners , the police and other organisations . |
| 20 | When you begin to fly your model in circuits regularly , do be sure to practice both right and left hand circuits to avoid building up a bias towards one particular direction . |
| 21 | Some of these extra students will be people who are entering after several years in employment , or after years spent bringing up a family ; others will be coming straight from secondary education . |
| 22 | But getting a job after years spent bringing up a family is n't necessarily an end in itself For many women , it 's all part of changing their lives and pointing them in the direction they want to go in-of being in charge of their own destiny . |
| 23 | The many deadening years spent bringing up a family in the narrow society of Tidewater Virginia seemed to be evaporating rapidly from her memory in the heat and excitement of the tropics . |
| 24 | Those three weeks had thrown up a heartening variety of political allegiances in the tree-lined avenue but all happy agreements to differ evaporated in the wake of John Major 's sinister victory . |
| 25 | The Fine Gael TD for Westmeath , Paul McGrath , told the Dail that a group of terrorists had set up a firing range on the shores of Lough Derravarragh last week and fired off 1,000 rounds of ammunition from Kalashnikov rifles . |
| 26 | Indeed , to the extent that inflationary expectations have built up a momentum of their own that it regards as excessive , the government may be forced to adopt demand management policies which aim to raise the unemployment rate above the natural rate so as to throw the process outlined above into reverse gear . |
| 27 | Occasionally governments have opened up a discussion by publishing a ‘ Green Paper ’ which set out alternative possibilities . |
| 28 | Senior West German officials here last night said that the Bonn cabinet had agreed to vote with President Mitterrand and other EC leaders to fix a date before the end of next year for the special conference of EC governments to begin drawing up a new treaty . |
| 29 | Top equity and foreign exchange dealers have picked up a minimum of £200,000 before bonuses and perks — the real whiz-kids making upwards of £300,000 . |
| 30 | DARLINGTON health officials have drawn up a smart new logo as part of their plans to revamp the service 's image . |