Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [verb] up [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Often health authorities intent on promoting their national drug companies force up prices . |
| 5 | THE AWARDS SHOW THEIR WORTH AS COMPUTER COMPANIES COME UP TRUMPS IN THIS YEAR 's LIST |
| 6 | They would live on desert racetracks linking up shelters ; it proved impossible to get hold of enough desert from angry human inhabitants . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The umbrella ants chew up leaves and use them for growing food . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | The Fair Trading Act , 1973 , requires the Director General of Fair Trading to encourage Trade associations to draw up codes of practice for fair trading . |
| 15 | At the time , the television networks served up images of Gap-wearing middle-managers having a day out . |
| 16 | Mr Akehurst questions the wisdom of ensuring no-one waits for more than two years for hospital treatment a key Tory election pledge as this would result in people with low priority conditions holding up treatments for people with more urgent clinical needs . |
| 17 | Most tournament players throw up blades of grass to tell them the wind direction and strength , which is ideal to copy . |
| 18 | Private bill attempts to speed up laws on knife offences |
| 19 | The take-down and punch 1 : the sparring partners take up positions . |
| 20 | An they say the butler wes gaithert up intae a white sheet aff the field . |
| 21 | The sight of union leaders holding up cards carrying hundreds of thousands of votes is seen as ridiculous , outdated and undemocratic ’ — Gavin Laird , general secretary of the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union . |
| 22 | There is nothing to stop pressure groups putting up candidates at parliamentary elections on specific and limited programmes . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , the Secretary of State has the power to draw up regulations about what can be charged for and what can not and the Education Reform Act required local authorities and school governors to draw up policies on charging parents for their children 's out-of-school activities . |
| 24 | SCHOOL pupils cleaned up parts of Middlesbrough this week . |
| 25 | ( Firms may also feel the need to set up secondary market operations to build up relationships with investors , and to have an investor base for distribution of new issues . ) |
| 26 | Strong local currencies in the Taiwan and Korea production centres pushed up costs and attempts to take advantage of a cheaper environment in China were dashed by events following the Tiananmen Square demonstrations in Peking . |
| 27 | IS N'T it strange how the moment interest rates go up banks feel compelled to push up their rates ? |
| 28 | UP leaders immediately demanded the resignation of the Interior Minister Carlos Lemos Simmons , accusing him of ultimate responsibility for the crime and claiming that he had encouraged right-wing death squads to murder UP leaders . |
| 29 | It winds its slow way ever higher through first one valley then another , rumbling past waterfalls , passing over bubbling streams , stopping at mountain villages to pick up farmers with weather-beaten faces . |
| 30 | Network political correspondent Michael Hastings said : ‘ The scheme has an image of middle class boys running up hills but Prince Edward is keen to make it more upbeat . ’ |