Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [v-ing] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | If the petition is successful a court order is drawn up sanctioning the scheme and confirming the reduction of capital . |
| 5 | Note : A detailed timetable should be drawn up showing the steps involved and allocating responsibilities between the various parties . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She had given up counting the number of marriage proposals she had turned down over the years . |
| 8 | He had long since given up reading the tabloids . |
| 9 | He had almost given up testing the limits . |
| 10 | Many farmers had given up working the land because of low rates of return and had turned to producing more lucrative goods . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Lost in his thoughts , he hardly realized that he had given up folding the pamphlets . |
| 13 | The village chiefs ask their people if they are willing to work on the water projects , and once agreed a project committee is set up carrying the authority of all involved . |
| 14 | In a new book — ‘ Power Failure : New York City Politics and Policy Since 1960 ’ , put out by Oxford University Press — Ray Horton and Charles Brecher , leading lights of the CBC , have shown how arrangements to simplify bargaining with the unions have ended up locking the city into deals that halt even the best-laid plans for change . |
| 15 | At the end of some noisy haggling he had ended up paying the driver way over the odds . |
| 16 | During the lengthy period when the story was running none of the major media outfits dealt seriously with the question of why the fleeing Kurds had ended up carpeting the mountainsides in misery . |