Example sentences of "up [noun pl] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 , which had placed barriers between commercial and investment banking , would be repealed in order to permit well-capitalized banks to set up affiliates in other sectors of the financial areas . |
| 2 | As an assistant you will probably gather information , draft press releases , make up media invitation lists , search out information , set up meetings with outside specialists and consultants , deliver information to the media ( here is a chance to chat and get to know some faces in the media world ) . |
| 3 | Instead the party will set up a top level group to investigate prostitution and draw up plans for new laws . |
| 4 | I knew it was n't healthy or good for me to spend so many hours thinking about eating and cooking up plans for new diets or exercise programmes . |
| 5 | The Scots had not only to reconstruct their self-image , but also to build up contacts with new friends and allies , the main but by no means the only one being France . |
| 6 | ‘ We have been drawing up profiles of potential smugglers so that we know who or what type of people to look for using intelligence sources . |
| 7 | W. J. Freeland set up groups of three mice , the different mice having been injected with different quantities of parasites . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , the Secretary of State has the power to draw up regulations about what can be charged for and what can not and the Education Reform Act required local authorities and school governors to draw up policies on charging parents for their children 's out-of-school activities . |
| 9 | ‘ An advance guard of hundreds of men , with bulldozers , mechanical shovels , tractors and lorries has for months been scarring the lowlands , daubing the green acres with splashes of grey clay and red earth in a mariner unseen since Beaker Folk raised their burial mounds or Saxons threw up ramparts on surrounding hills . |
| 10 | to be designed around the established needs of the Course and its working practices , academic structure and regulations , in order to assist all staff and students to fulfil their roles ( on occasion , analysis for proposed developments showed up imperfections in existing procedures and sharpened user perceptions of their roles and working practices ) ; |
| 11 | This plant has shot up 21ins in 3 days . |
| 12 | I have n't got time to er mark them all in a formal sense , so just bring a plan y'know if y give me somebody give me a mock title cos I 'm very reluctant to dream up titles under these circumstances Okay , compare and contrast two theories of aggression . |
| 13 | It was not a directly elected body , though it was given the right under the Treaty to draw up proposals for direct elections . |
| 14 | Business Deals — Drawing up contracts with foreign suppliers or customers , and taking account of the customs regulations in transportation . |
| 15 | ‘ I have put up taxes on those things that damage the environment , like petrol and fuel . |
| 16 | I believe that the last Labour Government but one put up taxes in eight Budgets . |
| 17 | Since 1972 the 189 member Committee has had the right to draw up opinions on all questions relating to the Community , but it remains advisory . |
| 18 | The Clinton administration is slowly turning its attention to the $14 billion that the US government will spend this year on basic research , conducting a review of six multi-billion-dollar interagency initiatives and convening a panel of senior administrators to draw up programmes for future budgets that correspond to the president 's domestic policy goals . |
| 19 | ‘ During one of those desperate days when we were being attacked , I remember there was an official rescue ship which used to trail behind the convoy to pick up survivors from torpedoed ships . |
| 20 | The commodore had to assess whether he could afford to permit this small force to stay and pick up survivors from torpedoed vessels . |
| 21 | By the time I was involved the business had chalked up losses for many years and was in deep trouble . |
| 22 | It was as if his mind was digging down through the years and bringing up pictures of past events … |
| 23 | The loss of competitive edge might open up demands for protective measures against countries which have imposed no limitations on their own industries . |
| 24 | Code-named Ro31–8959 , it targets an enzyme in the Aids virus called proteinase , which plays a crucial role in the construction of the Aids virus in an infected cell by cutting up proteins into viral components . |
| 25 | They could not grasp the value of setting up refuges for Asian women and to these men consulting with the community always meant consulting with other men . |
| 26 | The settlements of 1911 had , explicitly or implicitly , opened up channels between local officials of the union and local shipowner associations so that a number of recognised , if not always strictly negotiated and agreed , rates and conditions now existed in different ports which , for the purposes of comparison , the NSFU had now committed to paper . |
| 27 | At the time , the television networks served up images of Gap-wearing middle-managers having a day out . |
| 28 | Such works were very popular ; conjuring up images of past ages of grandeur , and fostering a yearning for a new future . |
| 29 | It may also open up opportunities for barrack-room lawyers . |
| 30 | Moreover , this lower level of spending is still sufficient to give us the flexibility to take up opportunities in new areas . |