Example sentences of "for [v-ing] up [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That did not happen to the drill in question , used for bringing up deep water , because the workers were foreigners , excluded from the provisions of the law . |
| 2 | But Bakker in reply says cartilage is in fact better for absorbing shocks and for building up hydrostatic pressure . |
| 3 | Western support for tearing up existing loan deals , then , held the key to Mexico 's success . |
| 4 | Jeremy Costello-Roberts received ‘ a slippering ’ at Barnstaple , Devon , for notching up five demerit marks after talking in the school corridors and , on one occasion , being late for bed . |
| 5 | Bond , 54 , the former head of a £400 million empire , spent three months on a prison farm near Perth before an Australian appeal court cleared him of concealing a £7 million fee for shoring up failed merchant bank Rothwells . |
| 6 | Ideally , the evening study periods should be used for reviews of the work given in lectures , and the daily " free periods " for writing up practical work . |
| 7 | An idea I have found very useful for picking up unwanted food and rubbish from the bottom of a tank ( such as a bare bottom isolation tank etc. ) is a simple length of rigid tube about ¼″ dia and three or four inches longer than the tank depth . |
| 8 | Bioremediation is being evaluated by both industry and the US-EPA as one technology for cleaning up hazardous waste sites . |
| 9 | A new tax could be levied on UK industry to pay for cleaning up contaminated land , according to proposals currently being considered by the Department of the Environment . |
| 10 | We would imagine that the wire brush is very handy for cleaning up old iron and steel . |
| 11 | Tines cultivator Ideal for breaking up rough dug soil and mixing in fertiliser . |
| 12 | All this is what makes the argument for breaking up Big Blue so compelling . |
| 13 | The European Community competition commissioner Karel Van Miert is endorsing proposals — bitterly contested in the more state corporatist member countries — for breaking up national telephone monopolies by 1998 to free markets for calls both within and between member states ; the idea of an interim deregulation that would affect only transborder traffic has now been abandoned ; the UK is the only Community member open to phone call competition ; Denmark will follow suit next year and the Netherlands is expected to move as well ; Van Miert wants the Community to set liberalisation priorities and a timetable by year end , including proposals for regulatory changes by the end of 1994 , with market-opening to start in 1995 . |
| 14 | There nevertheless remain some aspects of the scheme which demonstrate how difficult it seems to be for government to jettison the original ideas of the Beveridge Report ; for example , the Invalid Care Allowance ( ICA ) , which was introduced as recently as 1976 , is not payable to married women on the grounds that they are likely to be at home anyway and hence not in need of compensation for giving up paid work in order to care for a chronically sick person in their household ( Groves and Finch , 1983 ) ; the tax system ( which is not under detailed discussion here ) still assumes that all men need an additional allowance to help pay for the cost of ‘ keeping ’ a wife . |
| 15 | After the election , the PBDS party was forced to apologise to the electorate ‘ for stirring up racial hatred ’ . |
| 16 | They had a folding canoe ( foldboat ) and limpet mines for blowing up any shipping that was in the harbour . |
| 17 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what meetings he has had with hon. Members on each of the proposals for setting up national health service trusts . |
| 18 | There have been no formal meetings with hon. Members on proposals for setting up national health service trusts . |
| 19 | Substantial reasons for setting up this service are absent from the Department of Health 's letter announcing it , which refers to ‘ anecdotal evidence ’ and says that ‘ experience suggests that many people would prefer to attend a clinic separate from other services . ’ |
| 20 | So , to introduce Fodor 's terminology , the mechanisms for delivering up packaged information about the world ( a parsed sentence , a representation of a three-dimensional object … ) he calls the input systems . |