Example sentences of "had [be] [to-vb] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company policy had been to speed up the line and the rate of production . |
| 2 | His response had been to build up the power of his supporters the Nevilles : Richard earl of Warwick and his brothers John , who was made earl of Northumberland , and George , who became archbishop of York . |
| 3 | The aim of successive American administrations had been to build up the strength of the most vulnerable states in the area — those known until the Second World War as French Indo-China and later divided into the separate states of Vietnam , Laos and Cambodia . |
| 4 | His response had been to build up the power of his supporters the Nevilles : Richard earl of Warwick and his brothers John , who was made earl of Northumberland , and George , who became archbishop of York . |
| 5 | The prime task of the 1905 revolution had been to break up the large estates and with them the political and economic power of the nobility . |