Example sentences of "[noun sg] has [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the meantime , the insurance industry has set up Pool Re , which began collecting premium income in January . |
| 2 | The need to finance the cost of unity and damp down its inflationary effect has pushed up German — and therefore European — interest rates and exacerbated recession . |
| 3 | Banbury West End Club has signed up world ranked players , including Neil Borwick from Australia , who 's 123rd . |
| 4 | These have been driven up , first , by a labour shortage , brought about by the ending of free immigration from China in 1980 , and now by increasing emigration from Hong Kong ; and , second , by the colony 's swift move up-market as manufacturers have relocated low-wage factories to southern China , leaving higher-paid jobs in Hong Kong , where their influence has pulled up wages in what would otherwise be poorly paid jobs . |
| 5 | The shoal has taken up residence in one particular area of the canal and are congregating in a 6ft deep hole a yard from the far bank reed bed at Plex Lane . |
| 6 | The council has put up £2,000 to lower kerbs , while the Sutton Housing Trust , which manages 520 properties in Saltersgill , has added £5,000 . |
| 7 | Dr Carl Wieman ( left ) and his team has opened up research into low temperature physics . |
| 8 | Owen : When George , or you Robert … or you Carol walks out and slams the door that means the teacher has to give up time they could be giving to the others in the class , the ones who need the help . |
| 9 | The seller has given up goods in exchange for an increase in his bank deposit . |
| 10 | The reader interprets this as " the echo died away " , but is aware that the sound has conjured up birds for the people . |
| 11 | His wife has given up work as a secretary to stay at home with their three young children , yet the law does not allow him to take up her full tax allowance . |
| 12 | Now pursuing a wider marketing brief to boost its coffers , the Open Software Foundation has opened up labs at its Cambridge , Massachusetts-based headquarters as an interoperability testing site . |
| 13 | Now pursuing a wider marketing brief to replenish its coffers , the Open Software Foundation has opened up laboratories at its Cambridge , Massachusetts-based headquarters to provide an interoperability testing site . |
| 14 | A huge illuminated whale has taken up residence just off Piccadilly — ’ Moby Dick ’ is in town . |
| 15 | IRVINE Development Corporation has drawn up plans to transfer of some houses to a housing association . |
| 16 | The European Commission has drawn up proposals for compulsory recovery of 90 per cent of all packaging waste . |
| 17 | So it is likely that a family in which a mother or father has to bring up children single-handed will think of itself and be treated by others , as a little cluster of deviants from the marital norm . |
| 18 | Genetic engineering has opened up possibilities for the introduction of genes which confer the ability to produce either insecticidal toxins or semiochemicals which alter insect behaviour . |
| 19 | WISH you were here can so easily become ‘ wish we 'd never gone ’ when you arrive home to find that burglars have emptied the tool shed , the pipes have burst and the dog has picked up fleas in the kennels . |
| 20 | Although the government has tightened up rules at the slaughterhouse , and taken action to stop infected meat reaching our food , it 's still JUST possible that diseased meat scraps might reach some meat products . |
| 21 | Instead of tackling the causes of urban unrest , the Government has built up force to deal with the manifestation of those root conditions . |
| 22 | For the second time in two years , the Dutch government has drawn up plans to price cars off the roads to ease the Netherlands ' growing problems of congestion and air pollution . |
| 23 | A whole new service industry — office design — has sprung up in the city , and the demand for furniture , secretaries and commercial space has pushed up prices . |
| 24 | SPURRED on by the prospect of imminent defence cuts , the US Army has drawn up plans for cutting its forces in Europe by half , and recasting the army of the future into a rapid-deployment force , able to intervene in Third World trouble spots , in terrorist situations and to fight the war on drugs . |
| 25 | Before the patient leaves the physiotherapist uses a particular technique which helps work through the big sobs that so often follow crying , believing that the crying has used up oxygen and big sobs restore balance . |
| 26 | So a car battery has stored up energy . |
| 27 | It does seem unfair that a wheatear or pipit , having survived all the dangers of migration , should arrive home to find a merlin has set up house in its territory ! |
| 28 | The controversy has thrown up confusion , with one doctor saying there IS a ban on smokers , and a hospital cardiac unit insisting there IS N'T . |
| 29 | The wheel of fortune has turned up trumps and offers you a handsome payola today . |
| 30 | The underwriter has to take up shares if called upon to do so , and for this has to be able to obtain the necessary funds . |