Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] up [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hugh Geach , head of programme support services at Television South , explains : ‘ Everything the Government has done has been designed to open up television to market forces , to encourage new channels and competition for advertising . |
| 2 | You will not be permitted to take up employment in order to help support yourself . |
| 3 | Every attempt will be made to open up dialogue with the kidnappers and to stall them long enough to trace where your wife and daughter are being held . |
| 4 | Microphones are built to pick up sound from specific directions . |
| 5 | However , where attempts are made to build up monopoly by merger there has been a heightened awareness of the inherent dangers , and governments have been more willing to take direct action to prohibit them . |
| 6 | A narrow boat and butty took over three-quarters of an hour to negotiate the locks , however , and an inclined plane was eventually built to speed up traffic by lifting boats in movable docks . |
| 7 | In the preceding months the PS had sought to step up pressure on the government ; it had joined with the PCP in tabling a censure motion in parliament in October 1989 attacking the government for its low ethical standards ; although the motion was defeated , attention was again turned to the then Finance Minister , Miguel Ribeiro Cadilhe , following allegations early in the year of his financial misconduct [ see p. 36945 ] . |
| 8 | I 've promised to go up country to a bull ranch a friend of mine called Barbosa runs . |
| 9 | He 's not only had to pick up technique in racing , he 's had to learn how to train — that 's been the secret , he says . |
| 10 | I suppose you 've got to weigh up sot of various . |
| 11 | My right hon. Friend will be aware , when he next visits Lancashire , that the news that the Liberal council has had to give up office in Maidstone has travelled the length and breadth of the land — |
| 12 | In the case of spoken words , context is used to speed up recognition by reducing the number of possible candidates in the cohort . |
| 13 | For example , in 1987 , a Public Accounts Committee report ( 1986–7c , paras 20 , 44 ) claimed that ‘ a major effort ’ was needed to speed up implementation of the FMI . |
| 14 | The snout is used to stir up mud on the river floor , to expose worms , crustaceans and other small organisms on which the fish feeds . |
| 15 | However effective the departmental ordering , some central control is needed to balance up inequality of treatment between subjects , order interdisciplinary material , and fill in titles which for one reason or another have been missed . |
| 16 | A working party is to be formed to draw up opposition to the plan , for presentation to the Welsh Office . |
| 17 | As a medical student at Newcastle University in the 1950s Neubauer was inspired to take up psychiatry by Prof Martin Roth . |
| 18 | It may be that the Breton expedition was intended to keep up pressure on the French to make the sort of concessions the English would feel able to accept , but it is equally possible that the confused direction of English policy reflected conflicting influences at court . |
| 19 | I have not only politically united the German people , but also militarily rearmed them , and I have further attempted to tear up page for page that Treaty , which contained in its 448 articles the most base violations ever accorded to nations and human beings . |
| 20 | They had some support amongst officials at court , but they had not troubled to build up support amongst the magnates or the lesser landowners . |
| 21 | When news of Stony Stratford reached London , the Woodvilles had tried to whip up resistance to Gloucester . |
| 22 | When news of Stony Stratford reached London , the Woodvilles had tried to whip up resistance to Gloucester . |
| 23 | Wade Smith was given salesman of the year in January and promptly left to set up shop on his own . |
| 24 | He was forced to give up football after stepping on a magnet . |
| 25 | Robert had earlier won the 250cc race but in the superbike he was forced to make up ground after a bad start and was never able to get to grips with the leader . |
| 26 | That 's why I 'm determined to set up business for myself . |
| 27 | After all , I had ‘ covered ’ the Boys ' Parliament sessions and other church activities for him on a free lance basis , and I was sure he knew I was determined to take up journalism as a full-time and life-long career . |
| 28 | With Sir John Leveson , he was ordered to set up provision for the poor and to enforce the order of Privy Council of 1598 , and by this order they were both assessed in the Parish of Halling , Sir John for 7s 4d and Lambarde 6s and the whole total for Halling being £4 5s 8d . |
| 29 | This benefit allows you to deduct the years when you were required to give up work from the normal qualifying period for a basic pension and so , in effect , shorten the number of years when you would otherwise have been required to make contributions . |