Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , socioeconomic preconditions and reasons for giving up smoking have not been investigated to the same extent . |
| 2 | According to the Washington Post of Jan. 16 , 1990 , more than 800 people including university students had been sentenced to prison terms of up to 10 years for " counter-revolutionary crimes " , including such acts as putting up posters . |
| 3 | If the current GATT proposals for opening up world trade for agriculture were inaugurated , he said , they would force Third World farmers to industrialise their production or be " washed away as if by a catastrophic flood " . |
| 4 | The Faulks Committee would have done better to concentrate on methods for speeding up libel hearings . |
| 5 | The judgements that have to be made are complex , not least because local government has existed for a long time and the opportunities for building up capital or depleting it have been great . |
| 6 | Possible methods of speeding up collection include increasing the numbers of bailiffs and contacting non-payers by telephone . |
| 7 | Possible methods of speeding up collection include increasing the numbers of bailiffs in the town and contacting non-payers by telephone . |
| 8 | The most important aspects of setting up instruments are : ( i ) there should be no air bubbles in the columns of paraffin oil ; ( ii ) the instruments should be absolutely straight , bisecting the microscope field horizontally , and lying exactly parallel to each other . |
| 9 | Subjects with follow up visits in the period April 1989 to December 1991 were eligible . |
| 10 | If you are a driver with a full licence giving LGV or PCV entitlement and that licence was issued by another Member State you may continue to use that licence for up to 12 months from taking up residence in the UK . |
| 11 | On the other hand , pluralists may accuse the structural Marxist accounts of dressing up pluralism with a rather turgid form of Marxist verbiage . |
| 12 | Sainsbury also claimed a comparatively modest rate of usage of headhunting , preferring to concentrate even more on long-term policies of training up graduates . |
| 13 | Try comparing your own experiences as a child with your attitudes towards bringing up children as you express them today . |
| 14 | She discusses marriage trends and how these have affected where the children live and who cares for them , the ethnic diversity of British life , and different cultural attitudes towards bringing up children . |
| 15 | In his Directions for Taking up Plants and Shrubs and Conveying Them by Sea , John Fothergill suggested placing seeds among specimens in boxes , some of which might succeed if the plants failed . |
| 16 | All the machines can take Intel OverDrive chips for souping up performance later on . |
| 17 | This is familiar language , and Eleanor Gordon and others have argued that much more investigation of the circumstances of setting up women 's unions is needed before it can be accepted at face value , Material obstacles made union membership difficult for women : their low pay made it hard to pay dues , while their domestic duties as daughters and sisters , not to mention the question of staying out late , made it hard to attend meetings . |
| 18 | The guilt of that rashly administered vodka , combined with a sense of shame at decades of serving up meals of such a consistency that it is impossible to tell where the food ends and the plate begins , is obviously weighing heavily on his shoulders . |
| 19 | Let's concentrate on the wedding and set aside minor matters like setting up home together , buying furniture and the honeymoon . |
| 20 | However , the cost of the efficiency of the Royal Engineers in blowing up bridges , the gun never left these shores because most of the bridges was not strong enough to withstand it . |
| 21 | The procedural structure of trusts also lent them great advantages in setting up dispositions in favour of third parties , and enhanced the chances of those dispositions being observed and enforced . |
| 22 | Where there are gaps in matching up goals to resources , what can you do about it ? |
| 23 | The report advises developing countries on drawing up contracts and establishing regulations so that they can profit from their biodiversity . |
| 24 | If the single market is to be effective , companies must be able to provide goods or services across state lines without setting up agencies , branches or subsidiaries where this would be superfluous , and without being subjected to more burdensome rules in the host state than are absolutely necessary . |
| 25 | It has long been recognised that women who devote years of their lives to bringing up children lose out in the pension stakes . |
| 26 | In contrast , Queen Anne 's birthday in 1712 was celebrated " with Bonefires , illuminations and Prosperity to her Ministers and to the Loyal House of Commons " in many parts of the country , notably in Plymouth and Gloucester , and led one newsletter writer to conclude that " there was a fresh spring of Loyalty in the Kingdom after its long discountenances by crying up Revolution Principles " . |
| 27 | Sometimes the salespeople carry out merchandising activities like building up shelf displays , providing window stickers and in-store advertising , although sometimes these duties are carried out by a separate merchandiser or team of merchandisers , particularly when some form of demonstration or product promotion is required . |
| 28 | 18–11 Mrs McFarlane resumed her winter evening sewing and knitting classes for grown up girls and young women , in the female schoolroom . |
| 29 | Oliver was a whiny child , partly , I think , because Nonni had set ideas about bringing up babies which involved feeding them at set hours and leaving them to cry in between . |
| 30 | That 's one of the worst places for picking up germs , you know . |