Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also we went down to the H.Q. at Pages Park where we saw some men putting up photographs of the line in the past . |
| 2 | In an analysis of the 1987 accounts of 470 banks the Commission had found that the three major banks had used such reserves to cover up losses , and that 46 out of 65 banks , which in fact made a loss in 1987 , had reported profits . |
| 3 | These companies stepped up production of ‘ exclusive ’ products and concocted hundreds of new items to sell , usually under the same upmarket brands . |
| 4 | These planes eat up turbulence . |
| 5 | These figures backed up comments from a great number of part-time farmers that the off-farm job was a financial necessity as opposed to a choice . |
| 6 | All of these processes burn up fuel and energy is therefore lost in the transfer . |
| 7 | Students who spend many hours writing up laboratory reports in the evenings have not organised their time effectively . |
| 8 | Although ‘ change ’ perhaps suggests dynamism and enthusiasm — in keeping with a successful Club — the energy did not always stretch to the players on the course , for here complaints of slow play were regularly made , doubtless aggravated by televised golf tournaments in which players spent many minutes lining up putts . |
| 9 | Each Council has its own plans for its area and is very willing to advise and in many cases back up advice with grant aid . |
| 10 | Many estates put up notices at this time giving a local contact where enquiries can be made about where to go . |
| 11 | But as shopping habits changed many traders shut up shop and moved out blaming recession , traffic restrictions and fewer bus routes . |
| 12 | Campaigns to save the whales have led to the International Whaling Commission gradually lowering its quotas and many nations giving up whaling in favour of protectionist policies . |
| 13 | The reform of the national insurance system advocated here will also lead to all workers building up entitlement to national insurance benefits . |
| 14 | Voters expect all governments to put up taxes . |
| 15 | Many more applications to set up windfarms are expected following Government moves to encourage development of renewable energy sources . |
| 16 | Once the pilot exercise is complete and the views of the three centres and the 30 guinea pigs have been considered , we hope to broaden the pilot into a regular continuous process with more centres setting up certification programmes for the rest of the 500-strong team of verifiers . |
| 17 | Ladies Day — All activities in the Festival area are aimed at encouraging more ladies to take up tennis . |
| 18 | Three more turnstones scooped up sand , pushing with the tops of bills and leaving tiny dark streaks and spattered sand grains which showed where they had dug , excavating for sand hoppers . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's important to get more children to take up school dinners . |
| 20 | As more women take up exercise , there is an urgent need to know about its effects on the outcome of pregnancy . |
| 21 | More policemen took up station on the river walk . |
| 22 | The Supreme Soviet ordered the authorities in those republics to set up referendum organizing commissions without delay , and ruled that alternative referendums on independence being held in some of those republics [ see p. 38014 and below ] did not constitute a legitimate substitute for the all-union referendum . |
| 23 | Nolan , now married with two children , has tried several times to give up healing , but people wo n't let him . |
| 24 | Expel the remaining clear suspension and draw it back into the syringe several times to break up clumps of cells . |
| 25 | However , the success of recent policy initiatives can only be fully met if farmers find it their own interests to plant up pieces of land in such a way as to achieve both timber production and environmental improvement . |
| 26 | In the following two weeks tensions eased somewhat , although rail traffic between Zagreb and the Adriatic coast remained seriously disrupted because Serbs on several occasions blew up railway lines . |
| 27 | On the councillor side and paralleling the creation of management teams , most councils set up policy and resources committees , to allow leading councillors an overview of the council and , in principle at least , force them to move away from narrow service committee interests and department loyalties . |