Example sentences of "up [noun] [prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | When Tuesday and Debbie were arguing with their Moms whether they should wear a strapless dress to the dance , she had been carving up gang-girls in warehouse arenas , then picking out some cock-for-the-night from the stud line . |
| 3 | Open up plea to sex clinics |
| 4 | The forensic team crawled all over it , picking up scraps of wood fragments , traces of Ephraim 's clothes on the floor , even some of his blood . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We giggled together backstage , boiled up tea in railway compartments on Sundays , grilled ourselves sausages late at night on reversible gas-rings . |
| 7 | Editor , — R H V Jones and colleagues in their follow up study of cancer deaths at home comment that patients ' pain was relieved more effectively than any of the other symptoms , But of the 207 patients in the study , 42 received only moderate relief of pain — and eight had no relief of pain in their final month of life . |
| 8 | Participants of the follow up study among drug users in Amsterdam have been recruited since December 1985 . |
| 9 | In 1992 the European Community will become a single market , opening up opportunities to manufacturing companies throughout Europe . |
| 10 | In the weeks leading up to the elections , there had been numerous scenes of near-anarchy as food was looted from factories and warehouses and robbers held up cars on country roads . |
| 11 | He blamed politicians and some sections of the media for whipping up anxiety about mortgage repossessions and said that for his company marital breakdown rather than poverty was still the main reason for such repossessions . |
| 12 | It had scooped up armfuls of holiday bookings following the the collapse of Harry Goodman 's ILG group , which had taken with it one of Airtours ' biggest rivals , Intasun . |
| 13 | NORTH Wales Police are stepping up patrols of flood areas in a bid to ward off looters . |
| 14 | During the 1860s a few isolated attempts to form close-knit organizations overlapped with more widespread efforts to develop educational circles for workers and to take up posts as village teachers or medical assistants in order to establish links with the peasants . |
| 15 | Despite the vote in favour of more free-market reform in the referendum , Mr Chernomyrdin continues to say things like , ‘ If we do n't set up barriers to technology purchases from abroad , we will never survive . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I have even heard of people buying up airmiles through newspaper adverts to get there ! ’ |
| 17 | Or you can hang pot racks from the ceiling ; and put up areas of peg boards to hang colanders , sieves , whisks , graters and so on . |
| 18 | In Hargreaves [ 1985 ] Crim LR 243 , the accused had a piece of wire adapted to clock up credits on gaming machines . |
| 19 | The soaps are our modern myths , hyped up versions of morality tales subtly conveying their own standards ’ — Dr John Habgood , Archbishop of York . |
| 20 | The Railside Revival Fund also put up cash for replacement gates at the North end of the station and working replicas of old lamps at the subway entrances . |
| 21 | Future satellites will also follow up discoveries from balloon flights : radiation from the centre of our Galaxy and active galaxies and quasars , probably originating in gas close to their central massive black holes . |
| 22 | The mean follow up period in outpatient clinics or by contacting the family practitioner was 13.8 months ( standard deviation ( SD ) 5.1 ) . |
| 23 | Much of the taxpayers ' investment has merely stoked up inflation in land prices , effectively closing agriculture to all but the millionaire . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ I think we should be setting up things like video libraries and that sort of thing to help our members , ’ he said . |
| 26 | By coincidence this had been followed by an orchestrated campaign in the gutter press stirring up fears about asylum seekers |
| 27 | Maintaining the storage system would be the clear responsibility of the CSSU , ensuring quality in a number of ways , eg by chasing up holders of master files , by inserting new objects into files , and by making secondary copies of files and documents . |
| 28 | And there is a coddling quality , a smooth butteriness that conjures up visions of shortbread biscuits sprinkled with ground cinnamon . |
| 29 | providing one or more platform faces to enable specific journeys on regular Fife line and Glasgow line services to stop to set down or pick up passengers on match days |
| 30 | 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 . |