Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [verb] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since 1977 a case law has been built up to define the limits of the availability of this remedy , which proved very popular . |
| 2 | BCG also argued that a company with a balanced portfolio of products would use cash flows generated from the cash cows to invest in selected problem children , which would be built up to become the stars of the future . |
| 3 | His wife 's hair was straggling over her eyes , and she had not made up to hide the ravages of the night 's events . |
| 4 | On the face of it , it may seem that these two approaches can be made to coincide as long as the rules are drawn up to reflect the facts . |
| 5 | Note : A detailed timetable should be drawn up showing the steps involved and allocating responsibilities between the various parties . |
| 6 | But the charities say plans have not even been drawn up to develop the homes and that housing associations have refused to start work on projects until they are promised funding for running costs . |
| 7 | The trust for sale terms drawn up gave the trustees the right to manage the land and an obligation to sell it if it no longer produced a satisfactory income , with the proceeds of the sale going to the beneficiary , the consent of the beneficiary being necessary before the sale could take place . |
| 8 | Because their relations with the landlords were to remain unaltered for at least two years ( while charters were drawn up describing the obligations they were supposed to redeem ) , they believed that the government had cheated them . |
| 9 | Plans are being drawn up to enhance the pavements between Wakefield and Rennie Houses . |
| 10 | The contract was drawn up to safeguard the teachers ' rights in the situation . |
| 11 | He had long since given up reading the tabloids . |
| 12 | He had almost given up testing the limits . |
| 13 | Incidentally a trap here is to feel guilty when you find that you have given up doing the exercises that you so fervently swore you were going to do every day . |
| 14 | Lost in his thoughts , he hardly realized that he had given up folding the pamphlets . |
| 15 | Six months of painstaking work goes into preparing plants for showing … the plants have to be tied up to keep the stems straight … aphids must be brushed gently off the leaves … and the orchids have to be misted regularly to keep up the humidity . |
| 16 | Also always ask for the swarf to be blown out of cut sheets , and for the ends to be temporarily taped up to keep the sheets clean inside |
| 17 | They liked to be first , to be respected , to sit close to the altar , to be called up to lift the scrolls . |
| 18 | The Chilean party , in alliance with Radicals and Socialists ( who had sprung up to challenge the Communists in 1932 ) won a popular Front victory in 1938 , and in 1946 they collaborated with the Radical party to win an election ( this time without the Socialists ) and participated briefly in the government . |
| 19 | In July 1988 , a new organisation , the National Association of Software and Services Company ( Nasscom ) was set up to serve the interests of software sector . |
| 20 | The committee was set up to examine the principles that should govern GCE A level syllabuses and their assessment . |
| 21 | As the Cuban revolution was dedicated to reducing inequalities of all kinds , it was only a year before the Federation of Cuban Women ( FMC ) was set up to tackle the problems facing women . |
| 22 | If the system is set up to compare the amounts of each wavelength coming from different parts of the scene the problem of colour constancy is solved immediately . |
| 23 | The General Practitioner Board was set up to represent the interests of general practitioners . |
| 24 | Boulton and Watt beam engines pumped out water at both ends , and a brick yard was set up to make the bricks near the site — seven million were used . |
| 25 | Social institutions , including that of education , are set up to counteract the shortcomings of nature , to control and exploit it and turn it to human advantage . |
| 26 | The move to set up the staff commission comes after local authorities asked that a body be set up to protect the interests of employees . |
| 27 | However , publication of records by the press would be only be permitted if authorized by the commission which had been set up to administer the files . |
| 28 | Chapman jumped at the chance , but the Cobblers ' supporters were determined that Walden should stay , and a ‘ shilling fund ’ was set up to thwart the designs of their former manager . |
| 29 | The whole idea behind the I D S sounds perhaps at first as if its a little bit like an old missionary organization which has been set up to help the natives . |
| 30 | The police , of course , can never really be geared easily to incorporate structural challenge to their existing concepts of order and control , for they are set up to maintain the symbols and practice which has sustained the status quo . |