Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] up [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1925 , the LNER added to its stock the most powerful steam loco for service in this country , specially for banking trains up Worsborough . |
| 2 | Demands for action to clean up sulphur dioxide emissions from power stations , widely believed to be responsible for the ‘ acid rain ’ that was killing forests , lakes and rivers — not just in Scotland , but as far afield as Germany and Scandinavia — were brushed aside on the grounds of inconclusive evidence ; a similar attitude was taken towards the radioactive discharges from the nuclear reprocessing plant at Sellafield . |
| 3 | Lack of funding holds up railway upgrading |
| 4 | In another part of its robots programme , the Department of Industry puts up cash to help firms to pay consultants who advise them on robot applications . |
| 5 | Brother turns against brother as the devotees of the Cult of Pleasure stir up trouble in every city and town . |
| 6 | The CSO 's new director , Bill McLennan , said the changes were not only part of general tidying up operation to standardise distribution but also to prevent leaks . |
| 7 | Banking — Deposits — Deposit taking business — Fund to compensate depositors in insolvent bank — Original depositors assigning sums to third parties after presentation of petition to wind up bank — Whether assignee of part of original deposit ‘ depositor ’ — Banking Act 1987 ( c. 22 ) , s. 58(1) — Banking Act 1987 ( Meaning of Deposit ) Order 1991 ( S.I . |
| 8 | I reckoned I might still escape detection , however , if I ran on my toes in a sort of hearty limbering up exercise . |
| 9 | On reaching corner of hedge , right of way proceeds quarter left , aiming for left-hand side of small conifer plantation just in front of which cross footbridge and proceed to left of plantation to pick up track leading uphill to village of Bag Enderby ( a ) . |
| 10 | It 's taken a fortnight to get the oil out of my fingers , nightly doses of Ecover washing up liquid notwithstanding . |
| 11 | Euro-MP in plea for cash to shore up sea defences |
| 12 | The final model was sprayed matt black with car touch up paint . |
| 13 | Supposing that chefs and scullery lads are still alive , have n't fled , or are n't all pressed into service to boil up synthdiet for all those refugees . |
| 14 | Tonight on Public Eye evidence that vital monitoring equipment has been sabotaged by men who were under pressure to keep up productivity . |
| 15 | The move which the program chooses is the one which leads to a position HisPos with maximum backed up value . |
| 16 | When planning a rotation , it is very helpful to draw up a long-term scheme and dovetail the various crops into the seasons , at the same time ensuring that each field comes into the rotation in its turn and is then put back in grass to build up fertility for the requisite period . |
| 17 | On 9 March , Coleman received a detailed encrypted message from Control setting up Operation Shakespeare , clearing his visit to Lebanon and instructing him to carry out the mission as Thomas Leavy , of Westinghouse Group W News . |
| 18 | Higher rates of discount on bills would in turn drive up interest rates on other types of borrowing and lending that compete with bills ( e.g. short-term bank loans ) . |
| 19 | Executive directors are also in line to pick up share option gains totalling £1.4m from schemes operated before SmithKline and Beecham merged three years ago , according to details in the company 's report and accounts , released yesterday . |
| 20 | By the late 1920s the nationalist government had achieved tariff autonomy and an agreement in principle to give up extraterritoriality , yet enclaves of foreign settlers , foreign interests and foreign troops ( nominally for protection of the first two ) remained . |
| 21 | The final communiqué of the Turnberry meeting noted that the ministers had instructed negotiators at the CFE talks to pursue " new approaches " , particularly on the numbers of aircraft and armour and on verification , in order to speed up progress towards a CFE agreement in 1990 . |
| 22 | However , I do accept that occasionally it 's necessary to promote a volunteer in order to keep up morale in the ranks . |
| 23 | But there are no easy solutions ; it is hard , for example , to imagine the EC countries deciding overnight to forget their searing battles over agricultural policy and return to the old days of costly subsidies and surpluses in order to build up buffer stocks to higher levels . |
| 24 | CACI have used a gravity model in order to build up catchment areas around each defined shopping centre . |
| 25 | In ‘ underdeveloped ’ societies , the socialist , capitalist or communist elites have to find means to coerce or cajole people into working in order to build up wealth in their previously exploited economies . |
| 26 | We take community policing to be a style which emphasizes the development of good relations between police and community , normally via active police involvement in , and contact with , the local community , and by deploying manpower in such a way that officers patrol a ‘ beat ’ on foot in order to build up familiarity with the local area . |
| 27 | Though they say ‘ a change is as good as a rest ’ I do agree with you that one needs both in order to end up feeling refreshed . |
| 28 | This sort of interviewing could well be characteristic of a community survey where the researcher went from person to person linking up kinship networks , occupational groups , recreational groups , religious bodies , and so on . |
| 29 | It is also possible to buy forms which you complete on screen to add up VAT , interest and other sums automatically . |
| 30 | The car seems equally at home eating up motorway miles and nipping around a traffic-logged town . |