Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LEGAL peers renewed their attack on the Government 's plans to shake up the legal profession yesterday , when the Courts and Legal Services Bill had its second reading in the Lords . |
| 2 | The Royal College of Nursing is to lobby Parliament on 24 October in protest at the Government 's plans to shake up the National Health Service , the union has announced . |
| 3 | Thus David Reynolds and Christopher Thorne have resorted to such phrases as " competitive co-operation " or " allies of a kind " in their attempts to sum up the famous wartime partnership . |
| 4 | When I opened a High Interest Business Account ( in addition to the Club 's Current Account ) in September 1990 I was assured that funds to top up the current account would be transferred automatically from the business account whenever the former 's balance fell below £50 . |
| 5 | In fact development of Housing Action Trusts to deal with particularly run-down estates and Scottish Homes to break up the public sector suggests an alternative vision , based on state-sponsored restructuring and renewal from above , rather than individual choice . |
| 6 | On Feb. 12 a Soviet Foreign Ministry official confirmed that members of the Warsaw Treaty organization had " concluded that the time has come to take steps to wind up the military structure of the organization " and that the final decision would be taken at ministerial , and not summit , level . |
| 7 | Some mobile phone retailers are now supplying the once popular car phone free , bar an installation charge , and rely on bill-related bonuses to make up the entire profit . |
| 8 | Many of these will be unleashed in Britain by Lynmart , a company headed by Mr Raggett , who worked closely with the Russians to set up the British Astronaut Project , JUNO . |
| 9 | Their very presence , however , unsettled the enemy and forced their commanders to detach valuable troops to round up the raiding parties . |
| 10 | Despite the media army , it is becoming more and more difficult for the Allies to cover up the ancient and ruthless strategy of global domination and exploitation underlying their actions . |
| 11 | There are long sightlines and high lamp posts , but these give way after rebuilding ( Figure 6.4 ) to pedestrian-scale poles , a tree planted in the road as a slowing device ( marked by reflective posts to aid night visibility ) and changes in paving colours to break up the long vista . |
| 12 | Pitching : on one wild and windy night it took just five minutes to put up the inner . |
| 13 | It took me five minutes to put up the inner , which is erected first and another five minutes to fit the flysheet and peg out on one wild and windy night . |
| 14 | Plans to give up the daily commuter drag have been put on ice . |
| 15 | The agreement was prompted by the visit of a G-7 delegation to Moscow on Oct. 26-28 , which had threatened that republics ' attempts to divide up the Soviet Union 's estimated $60,000 million debt between them would threaten further Western financial aid . |
| 16 | Outside Europe international finance would pool its resources to open up the biggest prize of all — the vast reservoir of cheap labour awaiting Western exploitation in China . |
| 17 | Harvey the conformist was the first of the five remaining customers to pick up the outsize gesture . |
| 18 | PC Robinson advised owners to cover up the digital light of the video recorder when going out during the evening . |
| 19 | All the nationals except the Daily Star , which had been specifically based there by its owners to soak up the spare capacity left by their other declining title , the Daily Express , had either closed down , moved to London or drastically reduced their Manchester operations . |
| 20 | He was a patriotic Great Russian , and had no ambitions to break up the Russian empire . |
| 21 | As the age-structure changed older spectators tended to leave the terraces to take up the increasing amount of seated accommodation ; the ‘ ends ’ were left to ‘ the lads ’ . |
| 22 | The idea is the brainchild of CEWTEC , the training and enterprise council for Chester , Ellesmere Port and Wirral which is now seeking 15 local firms to take up the cut-price offer . |
| 23 | Her pleading frail voice went straight to my heart every time , and quite often I would crack her more than a few eggs to make up the dozen . |
| 24 | Following this brief , Whitaker had gone ahead commissioning a crop of four part stories to make up the twelve shows needed to keep Doctor Who on air for forty-eight weeks — one year in BBC terms , allowing for Christmas , sports events and other potential breaks . |
| 25 | After a long week , I received a phone call at lunchtime to say that the specimen was at the airport about to be collected , and I made arrangements to go up the following day . |
| 26 | You can now start venturing away from your measured route and start looking for additional ways to clock up the extra miles — try walking to the shops instead of driving ; try parking the car further away from work and walking the rest of the way ; or getting off the bus or train one or two stops from your destination and walking the rest of the way . |
| 27 | We we we 're empowered er by these orders to set up the new constituencies , er they do not actually come into effect to enable the elections to be held upon them er until all the countries of the E E C have agreed the changes that are necessary to accommodate the new numbers that er they will be having , er so the act , the ninety three act , has a commencement hour within it . |
| 28 | The ceremony ends with a shotgun blasted into the boughs to wake up the sleeping tree.Does it work … apparently yes.It 's now thought that making such a rumpus around the trees scares off harmful insects … so wassailing really does make the orchards healthier . |
| 29 | It 's putting a power into the hands of faceless Directors , picked by the Government , just as they pick their friends to head up the privatised National Industries . |
| 30 | The trust contemplates many benefits for patients , including continuing the systematic assessments and the reductions in institutional accommodation , and has plans to break up the large wards and to increase the staff-patient ratio . |