Example sentences of "[to-vb] up [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , he adds , the division is in a good position to drum up work in co-operation with or via its connection to BT 's facilities management firm , Syncordia , and its international network services organisation , Global Network Service . |
| 2 | Alarmed by inner-city tensions in reaction to mass immigration from the Commonwealth , in June 1955 the Home Secretary asked Sir Anthony Eden to set up a committee of inquiry , to drum up support for immigration controls . |
| 3 | To save money it is moving out of London to Newport in South Wales and has been running roadshows to drum up business from industry . |
| 4 | If there was plenty of off-the-croft employment , and a reasonable balance between the cost of living in town and country , there would be no need to drum up interest in agriculture through schemes like the IDP . |
| 5 | And so the Devil is quite happy as long as we dream our lives away , or become antiquarian , seeking to dredge up history in order that we can live out our lives in a museum of our own making . |
| 6 | And the job there was to pick up tray after tray of tiny little sprigs about that high in little tiny paper cardboard boxes . |
| 7 | October 4 : Nick and Safaya Hemming 's well-known PA–22–160 Tri-Pacer tailwheel conversion G–JEST came to grief on a strip at Flecknoe , Warwickshire , when it failed to pick up speed during take-off for a flight to Honeydon . |
| 8 | ‘ Be sure to pick up Kirsty from school at four . ’ |
| 9 | In an effort to produce a short form the JCT has not included specific provisions for many common situations , such as the need to open up work for inspection , or loss and expense suffered by the contractors due to default by the employer and supervising officer . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Six years later their ruler Guntiarius joined Goar , ruler of the Alans , to set up Jovinus as emperor . |
| 12 | Not content with his careful appraisal of eye , he produced from his rather torn and shabby coat , a small movie camera and proceeded to set up shot after shot of a narrow-gauge narrative . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ No murky ending ’ is what President George Bush promised the US public in a nationally televised speech on November 29 , 1990 to whip up support for operation ‘ Desert Shield ’ ( later renamed ‘ Operation Desert Storm ’ ) , Washington 's latest Middle East military adventure . |
| 15 | Call for EC to put up price of smoking |
| 16 | It is very difficult to weigh up economy with convenience . |
| 17 | I also remind myself of the effect upon the plaintiff 's fathers career , of his decision to give up work in order to attend the plaintiff . |
| 18 | To give up reason for revelation , he argued , is ‘ like putting out one 's eyes in order to look through a telescope ’ . |
| 19 | Parties to the English sea waybill are willing to give up transferability in exchange for an extra measure of security , especially against fraudulent issuances . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Tan accelerators claim to speed up production of melanin — the pigment produced by your skin in the sun — but there 's no evidence that they work . |
| 22 | The notion is analogous to our understanding that we need to save up money in order to exchange it for something we wish to buy . |
| 23 | Party chiefs hope to unite Tory rebels who want to hold up ratification with opposition MPs who see the Government motion as vote of confidence in John Major . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | This degree of modification comes about partly because of the greater degree of digestion in mammalian carnivores compared with the regurgitated remains from avian predators , and partly because of their use of teeth to break up prey before digestion . |
| 26 | I understand I 'm to take up residence at Number One , The Lime tree . ’ |
| 27 | You will not be permitted to take up employment in order to help support yourself . |
| 28 | I will do , not that I feel the gavel-bashing toastmaster was in order by repeatedly calling for ‘ gentlemen ’ to cough up money for raffle tickets . |
| 29 | They are to store up treasure in heaven and not on earth . |
| 30 | There , he opened the case , took a trowel from it , and began to dig up bulb after bulb from a long flower-bed on the other side of a path near the fence . |