Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [verb] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At around midnight , the chairman used my pregnancy — I was huge by then — as an excuse to break up the meeting : he said that even if no one else was tired , he thought we ought to disperse so that I could get my rest ! |
| 2 | Moreover , if bad management is perceived by the stock market , share prices will be lower than they might have been and a takeover raider may see an opportunity to buy up the company , install a better management , improve profits , and hence make capital gains when share prices subsequently rise . |
| 3 | IN 1930 at the height of the great depression , in an attempt to cheer up the citizens and stimulate trade and industry , many towns throughout Northern Ireland organised shopping weeks which took the form of festivals . |
| 4 | In an attempt to sharpen up the spongy brakes on my IIa , I am working on a process of elimination and the next venture was going to be flushing the system and changing the fluid . |
| 5 | After ordering that Ward 's court costs were to be paid by the British taxpayer he called for both prosecution and defence in fraud trials to declare their hands to each other before the start of a serious fraud case in an attempt to speed up the proceedings . |
| 6 | In an attempt to patch up the relationship , she and Gilbey fled to Italy with Diana 's brother , Earl Spencer and his wife , Victoria . |
| 7 | In an attempt to patch up the relationship , Lady Alethea and Gilbey fled to Italy . |
| 8 | In an attempt to patch up the relationship , she and Gilbey fled to Italy with Diana 's brother , Earl Spencer and his wife , Victoria . |
| 9 | Thirdly , the Act has created a system of ‘ shorthold ’ tenancies — an attempt to open up the ailing private rented sector . |
| 10 | She prefaces her book with an attempt to sum up the whole hideous story . |
| 11 | Does the right hon. Gentleman deny that there was an attempt to cover up the fact that many of those units are in serious financial difficulties ? |
| 12 | When an engineer calls up the plans for a jet engine , the information in the definition of that object allows the system — automatically and efficiently — to retrieve the plans for all its sub-components . |
| 13 | He nodded with patronising approval , and she had to do battle with an urge to pick up the nearest heavy object and hurl it at his infuriating head . |
| 14 | An observer summed up the typical bourgeois of Lille as a man who ‘ fears God , but above all his wife , and reads the Echo du Nord ’ , and this is at least as likely a reading of the facts of bourgeois family life as the male-formulated theory of female helplessness and dependence , sometimes pathologically exaggerated into the masculine dream , and occasional practice , of the child-wife selected and formed by the future husband . |
| 15 | How might an organization divide up the responsibility for marketing activities between its sub-divisions and head office ? |
| 16 | IN AN effort to clean up the mess that has afflicted the Environmental Protection Agency , President Reagan last week pulled an old broom out of the cupboard . |
| 17 | This did not dispel rumours , however , that the resignation was part of an effort to clean up the image of the justice system . |
| 18 | In an effort to tighten up the administration of poor relief the Local Government Board issued a circular in 1871 to the effect that outdoor relief should not be granted to the able-bodied widow with one child . |
| 19 | Throughout the day the Bank sold both dollars and European currency units almost continuously in an effort to shore up the pound . |
| 20 | ‘ I never finished it , but it seemed better just as an idea to sum up the album . |
| 21 | They called police and an officer climbed up the fire escape and made the grim discovery . |
| 22 | In a recent case , the Second Division of the Inner House of the Court of Session has decided , in an appeal on the basis of law equally applicable in England and Wales , that a minority shareholder is entitled to an order to wind up the company on the just and equitable ground under s 122(1) ( g ) of the Insolvency Act 1986 , even though he is not entitled to a share purchase order because of unfair prejudice in terms of s 459 , CA 1985 ( see Jesner v Jarrad Properties Ltd , The Times , 26 October 1992 ) . |
| 23 | Yesterday the High Court issued an order winding up the company , after a petition from Board of Trade president Michael Heseltine . |
| 24 | Yesterday the High Court issued an order winding up the company , after a petition from Board of Trade president Michael Heseltine . |
| 25 | The governments of the Czech Republic , Germany and Poland have signed an agreement to clean up the " Black Triangle " , the border region of the three countries , which is heavily polluted by emissions from power stations and industrial plants . |
| 26 | In the fifth century , the complex business of running an empire threw up the ‘ demagogues ’ , to us a word of political disparagement but not much specific content . |