Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [verb] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile the supporters want to set up a petition encouraging Flashman to go . |
| 2 | under Labour waiting lists have gone up every time we 've had a Labour administration . |
| 3 | Premiums have gone up an average 17 per cent this year . |
| 4 | Ever since then , as the story goes , journalists have kept up the tradition of ending the final page of each story with the sign -30- . |
| 5 | In the final analysis , organizations have to weigh up the anticipated benefits of particular media against the costs involved . |
| 6 | Here again organizations have to weigh up the relative gains of this approach against the extra costs . |
| 7 | These manufacturers have pushed up the resolution a little by breaking the display into submatrices , addressed separately , but connected to give a unified picture . |
| 8 | In many cases the becak drivers have put up a fight to prevent their livelihood from being carted off . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Rovers stand to pick up an extra £25,000 if their former player makes the Great Britain side . |
| 11 | Sub-headings seem to take up an inordinate amount of space ; do we really need separate headings for ‘ What is Tincture of Benzoin ’ , ‘ How to use Tincture of Benzoin ’ , ‘ How to carry Tincture of Benzoin ’ , and ‘ Where to buy Tincture of Benzoin ’ ? |
| 12 | Cunningham ( 1982 ) reports that if parents decide to give up the baby permanently , it is ‘ for the parents who make it , the right decision , . |
| 13 | The staff will stay on until the parents arrive to pick up the children . |
| 14 | While the part-time handymen do tidy up the area from time to time the amount of time they can devote to this is strictly limited . ’ |
| 15 | A huge land-grab is going on in Bosnia-Herzegovina today as Serbs and Croats fight to divide up the country . |
| 16 | Her parents have set up a trust fund and this competition . |
| 17 | ‘ The new production quotas have stirred up a hornet 's nest — and that 's without the added difficulty of a flu epidemic . ’ |
| 18 | The proceeds have shored up the balance sheet but the trading picture is grim . |
| 19 | 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% . |
| 20 | Sudjic implies this when he explains how architects of office blocks have to dress up the imperatives of mechanical engineers , and when he examines , and rejects , attempts to tie the design of tower blocks to the social ills they can contain . |
| 21 | Called the Reptilons , these huge , scaly fiends have chained up the human inhabitants ( these by happy coincidence are the blonde bimbos ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Since the 1970s , water purification plants have cleaned up the lake , which had become seriously polluted by heavy metals and organic compounds discharged by industrial plants . |
| 25 | Customs have set up the Dover Customs Yacht Team to deal with queries on yachts under temporary importation arrangements in an EC country on 31 December 1992 . |
| 26 | Occasionally governments have opened up a discussion by publishing a ‘ Green Paper ’ which set out alternative possibilities . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | DARLINGTON health officials have drawn up a smart new logo as part of their plans to revamp the service 's image . |
| 29 | Here the organisers have set up an international event where walkers , climbers and people everywhere can do something they enjoy doing and benefit others at the same time . |
| 30 | The trophy , named after a past director of Stoddard 's carpets , has been at the company for the past 37 years , but this is the first time in history that the organisers have opened up the competition for runners up . |