Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] up [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The answer … is not to resign ourselves to our women 's role — in a woman 's place — and demand payment for staying put , but to collectivise childcare , to share the responsibility for bringing up children within the community . |
| 2 | Where was the best place for bringing up fish on the river ? |
| 3 | These initiatives enable those who are responsible for drawing up programmes of modules to offer provision which realistically addresses the needs of inmates , whether at the start of a sentence or embarking on pre-release courses . |
| 4 | No , that 's for building up lumps of cash . |
| 5 | In this chapter , techniques for building up systems of the joint influence of variables have been outlined , using differences in proportions as the measure of strength of effect . |
| 6 | The wheel may be used for the identification of objects , for forming original sentences based on the pictures , and for building up stories around the picture ( Finocchiaro 1968 ) . |
| 7 | We and our daily rhythms can respond to bright light and an appropriate use of this may become part of our armoury for speeding up adjustment of the body clock after a time-zone transition . |
| 8 | She can not even begin to comprehend how a mother feels about bringing up children on state benefits or the frustration and despair of young people who can see no likelihood of ever finding meaningful employment . |
| 9 | He blamed politicians and some sections of the media for whipping up anxiety about mortgage repossessions and said that for his company marital breakdown rather than poverty was still the main reason for such repossessions . |
| 10 | The Company put on a special workman 's train to carry these men morning and evening , picking up at Roade and Castlethorpe , the latter two serving as pick up points for Hanslope , Yardley Gobion and Potterspury men . |
| 11 | A travel iron is useful for keeping up appearances on holiday . |
| 12 | It is about opening up ideas about the range of choices which could and should be available to them . |
| 13 | A group of nuns are facing eviction from their convent after running up debts of more than a million pounds . |
| 14 | A group of nuns are facing eviction from their convent after running up debts of more than a million pounds . |
| 15 | Their protest follows that of local Penan tribal people , some 20 of whom were arrested after setting up barricades in the forests nearby . |
| 16 | After chalking up debts of ¥500 billion ( $3.5 billion ) , Tokyo-based EIE is being rescued by five large Japanese banks . |
| 17 | She could remember the incident quite clearly , although the circumstances surrounding it had vanished into oblivion , beyond recall of any form of analysis : it had been early afternoon , so clearly not a party incident — maybe they had had lunch together ? — and she had been anxious about picking up children from school . |
| 18 | The term is used mainly for made up composts in which the rock particle is the missing component , usually to avoid the risk , despite sterilization , of introducing disease . |
| 19 | More recently , they have been supplemented by the galium arsenide laser instrument with opto-electrical linkage for picking up conversation at a distance from the vibrations in window panes . |
| 20 | Russian spacecraft now regularly carry French detectors for picking up bursts of gamma rays from still-unidentified sources . |
| 21 | It had been this problem which had led to the complex arrangements for picking up Ruggiero on his release . |
| 22 | As we go to press the DES are in the process of drawing up details on various subjects ; to date these include English , mathematics , and possibly technology . |
| 23 | Guo 's comments , and other remarks by Chinese officials earlier in the month , were interpreted as reflecting China 's intention of stepping up pressure on Chris Patten , Hong Kong 's Governor-designate , in order to dissuade him from considering any major changes in the colony or attempting to amend clauses in the Basic Law which would determine Hong Kong 's position under Chinese rule from 1997 [ see p. 37248 ] . |
| 24 | Opposition groups in Tehran and London accused government forces of stepping up attacks on Shia strongholds in the southern marshlands in mid-April . |
| 25 | Your learning must be a technique of building up knowledge in small doses , as articulated parts of a whole . |
| 26 | WFP makes the statement that the RMI will be ‘ extended and accelerated ’ with the aim of building up coverage to those units by the end of 1991/92 , ie March 1992 . |
| 27 | One-sided relationships , however , can be not only hurtful but can spoil our chances of building up friendships with people who might care for us much more . |
| 28 | There are four possible ways of building up savings in your pension plan . |
| 29 | Pigs and poultry , sensibly managed , can be a rapid means of building up fertility on a run-down holding . |
| 30 | Cézanne 's method of building up form by a series of parallel hatchings or small overlapping brush-strokes is used by Picasso in a severe and logical way ; indeed , in the gouaches of early 1909 this method of work becomes almost a refinement of the earlier , cruder striations . |