Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] clean up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main features of the 1990 budget , originally introduced on Sept. 19 , 1989 , and reintroduced substantially unaltered and adopted after the formation of the new centre-left government in November [ for which see p. 37050 ] , were the following : ( i ) a general cut in income taxes by 10 percentage points , including a reduction in the top rate from 72 to 60 per cent ; and ( ii ) a major programme for cleaning up the environment . |
| 2 | Even the greenest greens are coming to accept market forces ( and the value of a growing economy ) as a help in cleaning up the environment . |
| 3 | Well for the Birmingham branch it meant a reasonable sized job in cleaning up the ‘ bungalow ’ . |
| 4 | The promotion of energy conservation and energy efficiency could play a much bigger part in cleaning up the environment than any other measure the government can take . |
| 5 | The new MOT exhaust emissions test , which was introduced only a few months ago , will also play a significant part in cleaning up the air . |
| 6 | The Soviet government 's insistence on cash aid is seen as hampering efforts to develop cross-border co-operation in cleaning up the region 's pollution , 80 per cent of which is believed to originate from Soviet plants . |
| 7 | And the final year of the company 's three-year commitment to cleaning up the Alaskan coast is about to begin . |
| 8 | They are spending a lot of money in the South West on cleaning up the beaches . |
| 9 | This is not helped by the suspicion that a preoccupation with Europe is distracting the Government from cleaning up the mess on its own doorstep . |
| 10 | The plea bargain agreed between Exxon , the Justice Department and the state of Alaska had set the company 's total liability at $1 billion : $900m of this was a civil settlement to meet costs incurred by the government in cleaning up the 11m gallons of oil spilt into Prince William Sound ; the other $100m was a fine , payable to the Treasury , to settle the four criminal charges . |
| 11 | We should give thought to cleaning up the environment generally . |
| 12 | The equivalent of US$2 million was allocated last year for cleaning up the polluted areas , but specialists say this is not nearly enough . |
| 13 | Meanwhile GPU wants other electricity companies to contribute to the cost of cleaning up the site . |
| 14 | The money is a small fraction of the estimated $1100 million cost of cleaning up the stricken reactor . |
| 15 | Mr. Browne referred to the trend in the developed world to make the polluter pay , but Mr. Malone stressed that the west could not deny developing countries who could n't afford the cost of cleaning up the growth which they had enjoyed . |
| 16 | Repairs , carried out by Naylor Conservation in Telford , Shropshire , cost £30,000 and the over-all cost of cleaning up the monument , known as the Shaftesbury Memorial , was £80,000 . |
| 17 | Germany estimates cost of cleaning up the east |
| 18 | A government-commissioned report has calculated the cost of cleaning up the severely polluted industrial areas of the former East Germany at 17.8 billion deutschmarks . |
| 19 | As yet there are no estimates of the cost of cleaning up the areas around the mines , but it is likely to be very high . |
| 20 | The National Consumer Council has called for industry and motorists to pay more towards the cost of cleaning up the British water supply . |
| 21 | Greenpeace also accuses the government of not complying with international agreements signed by Britain , such as the 1974 Paris Convention on cleaning up the North Sea . |