Example sentences of "[vb infin] up [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could also tie up members of the C E C , the General Secretary , the Regional Secretary , the President , Officers and many others in internal wrangles new union just at the time when we need to look outward in the next two or three years . |
| 2 | For the record , too , the Press spokesman said the president only had the haircut because he was assured that doing so would not tie up traffic at the airport . |
| 3 | There are three polarisation states for deuterium nuclei , so only a third of the atoms in unpolarised deuterium will line up perpendicular to the magnetic fields . |
| 4 | Heat from the projector will dry up ink in the pens more quickly than with preparation on the film beforehand . |
| 5 | The two boys then spent the rest of the day helping beaters send up birds for the guns . |
| 6 | Her husband was due to retire then and they had decided that they would both give up work at the same time . |
| 7 | She must , however , give up work before the start of the sixth week before the EWC if she is to get SMP for the full eighteen weeks . |
| 8 | According to Soviet sources , however , the US side had softened its previous position that Najibullah would have to be removed from power before elections could be held , and was now considering a compromise under which he would remain President but would give up control of the military , the security police and the media to non-partisan bodies . |
| 9 | It is simply not on to believe that those at the top will willingly give up power for the overall health of society . |
| 10 | Despite the arduous conditions , the men are committed to getting the job done ; they will clean up sites at the end of each shift to give the incoming team a flying start , and shifts often work on into changeover and maintenance time . |
| 11 | Joy , you must ring up Jerry about the |
| 12 | Ministers will meet on the day the Oxford Economic Forecasting group warned the Chancellor against relaxing interest rates too quickly as it would ‘ store up problems for the future ’ . |
| 13 | Who believes that by working now we can store up security for the future ? |
| 14 | This , of course , will use up space on the memory card , but in practice you probably would n't save too many versions of the pattern , as too many stitches between the repeats will lead to long floats on the reverse side of the knitting . |
| 15 | What counts in cases such as this is ensuring continued pressure and publicity at national level , while also working with a local group , which can keep up pressure on the spot by stirring up the interest of local authorities and the regional branch of the National Trust . |
| 16 | From his home in Worcester , Phil Ride says he 'll keep up pressure on the British Government to work for his brother 's release . |
| 17 | Q. So how would you sum up progress in the last two to three years ? |
| 18 | The danger for such grand schemes is that the developed countries will think up targets for the rest of the world to meet , without fully considering the implications for their own domestic policies . |
| 19 | A librarian may build up sections of the stock that he feels are important even though there is no immediate response in terms of issues . |
| 20 | Our job is to help build up trust between the smaller companies and their banks . ’ |
| 21 | The actual assessment process is modular and candidates can build up credits for the individual units [ above and below ] which make up the NVQ . |
| 22 | A further difficulty is that repeated mismatching between feelings and behaviour can build up stresses in the system to the extent that something has to ‘ blow ’ . |
| 23 | " I Charles Gillingham Hamilton M.A. of Stockport in the Borough of Stockport and County of Chester , Clerk , a Clergyman of the Church of England , in priest 's orders and a Graduate of the University of Dublin declare that I will discharge always to the best of my ability the duties of Headmaster of the Stockport Grammar and Free School , and that in case I shall he removed from my Office I will thereupon relinquish all claim to the Office and its future emoluments and I will deliver up possession of the School and my residence to the Trustees and that it shall be lawful for them in the same case without ejectment or other legal process to take possession of my residence and remove myself and my effects therefrom . " |
| 24 | But perhaps you can , perhaps you can kno knock up jobs around the house for your wife and perhaps you can build houses . |
| 25 | This was used as the basis for invitations , issued at the end of 1857 , to the nobility of every province to form committees which would draw up projects for the emancipation of their peasants . |
| 26 | On this basis , health authorities will be able to establish a picture of the health of their population , and they can then draw up specifications of the services they wish to buy . |
| 27 | The head , operating under powers delegated to him by the governors , would set up criteria for the policy and appoint one of the staff to run the scheme . |
| 28 | Perhaps the first task facing Mr Chris Patten , or whoever takes over from the current Governor , Lord Wilson , will be to break the deadlock over whether the People 's Liberation Army of China should set up shop in the glossy commercial heart of Hong Kong island . |
| 29 | The track index will take up part of the first track of each cylinder . |
| 30 | Graduates with a specialism in Tourism and Leisure may take up employment in the management of tourism ventures , or in managing tourist flows . |