Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm if a window 's been smashed , then we 'll we 'll get the window boarded up to secure the flat the best possible way . |
| 2 | Tell-tale themes — which emerge in repeated use of phrases such as , in the case of a motivated talent for management , ‘ I took care of … organised … got people together ’ — can be added up to reveal the interviewee 's motivational pattern . |
| 3 | For a wider panel , as shown in Fig. 3 , weave , lifting strands before weaving each pair of rows , but omitting the weaving yarn on the last row when the strands are picked up to complete the diamond . |
| 4 | Regulations have now been issued to improve disclosures by trustees of pension funds and to provide that a deficiency in a pension scheme that is wound up becomes the debt of the employer ( p 111 ) . |
| 5 | The section provides that a deficiency in a pensions scheme that is wound up becomes the debt of the employer . |
| 6 | Some women who started work after their children had grown up felt the need to continue working in order to obtain a reasonable pension on retirement , yet they were forced to retire at 60 , because that is the age when they become entitled to a state and/or occupational pension . |
| 7 | Ideally , farmers would like to grow the larvae from eggs , and so a new industry — prawn hatcheries — has grown up to meet the demand . |
| 8 | An extensive chemistry is being built up involving the use of carbon monoxide , hydrogen , and other simple building block molecules in interconversions catalysed by metals . |
| 9 | ACORN applications Consumer targeting intelligence may be built up using the ACORN system to carry out ( 4 ) market research ; ( 5 ) the construction of customer profiles ; ( 6 ) area analysis ; ( 7 ) analysis of retail catchment areas ; ( 8 ) market forecast modelling ; ( 9 ) retail branch customer profiles ; ( 10 ) retail branch siting ; ( 11 ) shopping centre planning ; ( 12 ) leafleting . |
| 10 | " Mrs. Bidwell has n't turned up to start the cleaning and now Dr. Lorrimer 's missing . |
| 11 | I think we have to be freed up to have the choice to bring children into a society where that we can go to work , that we can do , you know fulfilling |
| 12 | If they , if they do n't become media personalities and do all the things they do on the telly and visit the hospitals , then we might very well get fed up paying the money for them when you consider the Queen is the richest person in the world is she not ? |
| 13 | If the petition is successful a court order is drawn up sanctioning the scheme and confirming the reduction of capital . |
| 14 | In fact , it seems no ship without a charter party could be loaded ( ’ freighted ’ ) ; and bills of lading were supposed to be drawn up to declare the nature of the cargo and to bind the master of the vessel to deliver in accordance with the charter party . |
| 15 | A company spokesman would not say what measures had been drawn up to keep the port running normally . |
| 16 | Astrologers , psychics and crystal-ball gazers ministered to the North Shore passion for prophecy , and elaborate charts detailing the movement of the moon and planets could be drawn up to ascertain the prospect of waves on any given day of the year . |
| 17 | TOUGH new rules are being drawn up to end the danger of killer gas fires . |
| 18 | Exclusive by Mark Davies TOUGH new rules are being drawn up to end the danger of killer gas fires . |
| 19 | The promotion — drawn up to strengthen the Group 's position as market leaders in bridal tableware — ran in all UK Waterford Wedgwood rooms and in almost 300 specialist Wedgwood bridal stockists . |
| 20 | Other problems were also experienced , including the damage of saplings during the logging phase of TSS , which opened the habitat to colonisation by secondary species , and the availability of light as the canopy was opened up encouraged the growth of unwanted climbers and weeds . |
| 21 | Profits from the British Grand Prix have virtually been used up to redeem the mortgage on Silverstone , but there is still no sign of a new deal . |
| 22 | She had given up counting the number of marriage proposals she had turned down over the years . |
| 23 | Many farmers had given up working the land because of low rates of return and had turned to producing more lucrative goods . |
| 24 | This is of flannel : the round part is plaited up to form the front , and a quilling of the bordering put on , a band of the same laid on at the back , and strings . ’ |
| 25 | And if the base of the wall could not be penetrated , movable towers were built which could be wheeled up to attack the wall from without ; in the longer sieges , such as that of Antioch during the First Crusade , fixed towers were erected over against the walls to harry the defenders and enable a watch to be kept on them . |
| 26 | A wealth of shops , bars , cafés and restaurants have sprung up to tempt the visitor , and you can dine in elegant surroundings or ‘ al fresco ’ , perhaps under a sheltering canopy of vines . |
| 27 | Day hospitals have sprung up to assist the process of rehabilitation after acute illness which can herald the onset of chronic disability and handicap ; their patients are overwhelmingly the very old ( Donaldson et al. |
| 28 | Equipped with this rule and with knowledge of what are important events , the animal seems to be well set up to acquire the ability to use initially meaningless environmental cues as predictors of what will happen , and initially haphazard acts as instruments for controlling the environment . |
| 29 | Delano was hired as a photographer by the Farm Security Administration ( FSA ) in 1940 , which was set up to document the plight of the displaced farmer and the accomplishments of the Roosevelt administration 's agricultural relocation and land-improvement programs . |
| 30 | Telecine Transfer is the recording of film onto tape , normally done in the Telecine Department , but also capable of being fed up to the gallery where a small desk-top electronic camera is set up to record the footage . |