Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Temple also had a word of warning on the use of endowment policies to build up capital . |
| 2 | ‘ A while ago , the Federation of Family Support Groups set up advisers at some courts to distribute leaflets and give help to families of prisoners on the spot . |
| 3 | The new party leadership appealed on television for unity and national support and pledged its co-operation with opposition groups to draw up changes in the constitution and electoral law . |
| 4 | There were regular news reports of Hooligan gangs smashing up coffee-stalls and public houses , robbing and assaulting old ladies , attacking foreigners and setting upon policeman in the streets . |
| 5 | Ice will use clips from '70s blaxploitation movies to set up talking points for his guests . |
| 6 | Now police are warning farmers and horse owners to step up security until the attacker is found . |
| 7 | And they 're urging farmers and horse owners to step up security . |
| 8 | Fourth , high speed printers make up 30% of UK revenues . |
| 9 | Huggy Bear helps cheer up Harriet Picture : JEFF PITT |
| 10 | Four children who stroked Easter lambs picked up cryptosporidium … the same bug that contaminated some water supplies in the area four years ago . |
| 11 | Often health authorities intent on promoting their national drug companies force up prices . |
| 12 | THE AWARDS SHOW THEIR WORTH AS COMPUTER COMPANIES COME UP TRUMPS IN THIS YEAR 's LIST |
| 13 | They would live on desert racetracks linking up shelters ; it proved impossible to get hold of enough desert from angry human inhabitants . |
| 14 | Noses trawl along the formica sideboards hoovering up powder . |
| 15 | In solos you often find them used to thicken up and to add depth to single note lines ; in rhythm parts they are commonly used instead of large chord voicings to lighten up parts . |
| 16 | As an example , in Cambridge the Regional Authority community officers set up co-operatives in the belief that these were ‘ natural ’ and only lacked resources to succeed . |
| 17 | The removal of safety devices to speed up production , for instance , is often done with the tacit connivance of supervisors . |
| 18 | When electricity generators tackle acid rain with desulphurisation equipment or water authorities clean up beaches by improving sewage treatments plants , we all end up paying via our domestic bills . |
| 19 | After a dull launch to the new season , London 's commercial art galleries pick up speed with a really exciting list of new exhibitions . |
| 20 | The Freight and Transport Association wants the E C to step in after French lorry drivers put up blockades in retaliation at protests by their Spanish counterparts over fuel prices . |
| 21 | The umbrella ants chew up leaves and use them for growing food . |
| 22 | Revenue from video cassettes pushed up Carlton Communications ' profit before tax by 15% to £102.3m in the year to 30 September 1992 . |
| 23 | Border runners build up mileage |
| 24 | Ken picks up street talk like Sunday newspaper diarists pick up gossip , late and usually third-hand . |
| 25 | Anglian DTI spokeswoman , Sarah Squire , said money taken from the EICS would be used to fund the new One Stop Shop scheme , where Training and Enterprise Councils set up consultancy services at a single location . |
| 26 | Something in her drank in his savage juices , as the mango trees suck up rain , and , in her turn , she spurted liquid from every pore and orifice . |
| 27 | These successive submarine eruptions built up layers of material which eventually emerged above the ocean 's surface as a small island , and coral reefs formed around its edge . |
| 28 | CACI used computer techniques to build up shopping centre analyses from raw data which covered a representative sample of all retail activity . |
| 29 | Again several factors explain this distribution : the higher mortality of very heavy drinkers ; the influence of social attitudes ; the fact that when the older age groups grew up attitudes against drink and for temperance were very much stronger ; and possibly the fact that the reduced incomes of older people offer less opportunity to consume alcohol ( there is a clear relationship between alcohol consumption and disposable income ) . |
| 30 | Suitable ward-based projects give the student opportunities to set up traction or to practise orthopaedic procedures . |