Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] up [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Topics in the talk included alternative training methods , particularly for building up leg strength . |
| 2 | ICI has chosen not to invest in new HCFCs which have a small ozone depletion potential even though these represent a useful interim measure for speeding up CFC phase-out , preferring to concentrate on more lasting solutions . |
| 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 | ‘ He set it up I just ran interference for him trying to keep your people looking the wrong way with talk about opening up Winter Garden again . |
| 5 | Rudimentary Mafiosi , such as Franco Ambrosio , who was shortly to be a founding member of Jackie Oliver 's and Alan Rees 's Arrows team , an egregious former self-styled gun-runner and mercenary later gaoled for escaping up Holland Park Avenue throwing bags of cocaine out the windows of his car , floated around on the edge of those early South American season-openers , the former offering fantastic deals ( on which he rarely delivered ) and the latter procuring the kind of girls that racing drivers can relax with . |
| 6 | The focus of this is about fourteen inches from the centre and if you put a microphone here when this this thing is outside it 's ideal for picking up bird song . |
| 7 | The tape is said to run in a continuous loop , a method of speeding up access time to data . |
| 8 | With appropriate allocation of profits from year to year the company partner could be used as a means of building up partnership capital at the more favourable tax rate . |
| 9 | The preferred spot is in the lee of a tall hedge ; it does a marvellous job of breaking up gale force winds . |
| 10 | From this it is clear that the idea of breaking up L Detachment had been floated at headquarters , using the excuse of a shortage of manpower . |
| 11 | The aggregate of called up share capital and all reserves , excluding minority interests . |
| 12 | The aggregate of called up share capital and all reserves , excluding minority interests . |
| 13 | there were dishes of chopped up spring onion and all like that and you put your own mixture int middle and then rolled it up . |
| 14 | Sharpe , 25 , was accused of beating up car mechanic David Patterson . |
| 15 | She and her husband ran a restaurant for eleven years before opening up Ford Farm in 1973 . |
| 16 | and with her kind of background in , in writing up training package , packages and things |
| 17 | A report commissioned by the World Wide Fund for Nature from Earth Resources Research points to a lack of progress in cleaning up nitrogen oxide emissions from heavy lorries as the weak spot in the programme . |
| 18 | BRENDA LEE was only 15 when Sweet Nothings charted number four in 1960 , but the little girl from Lithonia , Georgia , sensibly stayed at high school for another three years before taking up show business full-time . |
| 19 | Could farmers not co-operate in setting up hostel accommodation for trainees ? |
| 20 | As a member of Nottinghamshire 's interagency planning team , Dr Pratt has been involved in setting up community care for the county . |
| 21 | Sue : What kind of organisations will be involved in setting up Community Action projects ? |
| 22 | A considerable amount of my time since Annual Conference has been spent in following up Resolution No 25 which called for a specialist review of administration and expenditure . |
| 23 | However , they are now hitting physical limits to increasing computer performance and if this impressive progress is to be continued new approaches to speeding up computer performance will need to be developed . |
| 24 | Although sharp disagreements remained on the question of agricultural trade and on opening up government procurement to foreign companies , there was agreement on ( i ) curbs on general industrial and commercial subsidies ; ( ii ) speedy resolution of intellectual property rights ; and ( iii ) special treatment for special service sectors such as air transport and shipping . |
| 25 | They are prone to picking up camcorder machine and handling noise and are not very good at recording speech if the source is more than a metre or so away from the camera . |
| 26 | It allows you to have a firmer feel for the road at higher speeds without giving up power assistance when , regrettably , it comes time to park the car . |
| 27 | Some cities in Britain are working on setting up telephone help lines for children to ring in and talk about death and their own experiences . |
| 28 | It attributed problems to setting up sales channel , not technology . |
| 29 | I have asked to take the lead for setting up Government Division . |
| 30 | Ashton 's ordinance for setting up Shrewsbury School is often quoted today for its specification that the building should include " a library and a gallery for the said school , furnished with all manner of books , maps , spheres , instruments of astronomy arid all things appertaining to learning . " |