Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It gave the name of a contact point to follow up information , although some of us had reservations about whether it should have been the person who was actually quoted in the press release |
| 32 | The heavier load of accessories and metal trim drove up petrol consumption : from twenty miles per gallon the average dropped to fifteen and below . |
| 33 | Evidently , the stock market believes that matters will not rest there and Pearl 's share price raced up 87p to 639p . |
| 34 | The idea is to get Western hi-tech companies to sponsor the events , and X/Open is about to begin on a 90 day roadshow to drum up industry support . |
| 35 | For the year ending Mar 31 , 1991 , we have made mainly useful progress with the herd average moving up 770kg to 7320kg a cow of standard milk ( ie corrected to 3.8% butterfat and 3.2% protein ) or 7400kg at 3.89BF and 3.03 protein uncorrected . |
| 36 | A system is being considered that would place shield-type support beams in front of a drum cutter opening up tunnels while being operated 10–20 metres behind . |
| 37 | Sewage sludge stores up trouble |
| 38 | They say its colour scheme conjures up thoughts of Union Jacks , bovver boys and patriotism . |
| 39 | Finally a UK-designed packaging plant wraps up palette loads of printers as they come off the production line . |
| 40 | Finally a UK-designed packaging plant wraps up palette loads of printers as they come off the production line . |
| 41 | A five-member referendum commission to draw up procedures for the process was established on April 23 . |
| 42 | Serbian environment ministry sets up ecology police |
| 43 | Targeting the financial and telecommunications markets , Ontos is currently prototyping new technologies which will allow its object environment to hook up Sybase or Ingres as back-end database servers . |
| 44 | Pulling the centre-half back left a gap in midfield which needed a link man to pick up passes from defence and lay them on for the forwards . |
| 45 | He says that they 've had a three man gang picking up peoples rubbish for the last seven years . |
| 46 | More senior pupils in schools can use a word processor to write up projects or dissertations for internal or external examinations . |
| 47 | Cheltenham & Gloucester and the Yorkshire are taking the discount route to drum up business . |
| 48 | Right : Mazda 's modern-styled Approach Light picks up movement in a wide detection zone , and has an economical five minute switch off delay |
| 49 | One of the major differences of the Department of National Savings relative to other financial intermediaries is that it does not hold an asset portfolio to back up liabilities held , and therefore is not constrained by the need to adhere to liquidity , solvency or capital adequacy regulations ( given that funds are backed by the Treasury and are therefore essentially default-free ) . |
| 50 | Every now and then the fossil record throws up fossils which are palaeontological puzzles . |
| 51 | Everything a man need to keep up appearances while he 's away from home . |
| 52 | Trying out various ideas they eventually settled on the use of a Ring Modulator , which sets up a low frequency hum breaking up speech patterns into juddery , intermittent tones . |
| 53 | The public sector centres such as schools , colleges , community/adult education makes up 98% of candidates . |
| 54 | He dealt firmly with the attempts of the union movement to stir up trouble and efficiently with the problems created by Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia 's state visit , as well as with the great occasion of the coronation . |
| 55 | As the Cheshires sped away , soldiers in one of the Land Rovers leaped out at a road block to take up positions in a ditch and provide covering fire with their SA80 automatic rifles . |
| 56 | The Meien valley road climbs up west from Wassen through varied alpine landscape including tunnels , through one of which it traverses the Susten pass summit ( 2,224m , 7,295ft ) . |
| 57 | He saw an army platoon setting up position and soldiers scattering along the undergrowth . |
| 58 | The same day the secretaries of the state for trade and industry ( Peter Lilley ) and for education and science ( Kenneth Clarke ) announced a pilot scheme to build up partnerships between HE and industrial research organisation |
| 59 | By coincidence this had been followed by an orchestrated campaign in the gutter press stirring up fears about asylum seekers |
| 60 | ISKRATEL FROM SLOVENIA DEMONSTRATES HOW TO BREAK THE LOG JAM HOLDING UP TELEPHONE EXCHANGE SALES |