Example sentences of "[noun sg] clean up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Marland wants action to clean up the mess once and for all . |
| 2 | It took the squadron all the remaining hours of daylight to clean up the airfield . |
| 3 | Countries bordering the Baltic have agreed , as a result of the summit , to implement an emergency programme to clean up the Sea , with a target of halving the inflow of harmful substances by 1995 . |
| 4 | Unleaded petrol is now widely available and it makes sense environmentally and financially to take this easy opportunity to clean up the atmosphere , and make our cities safer places for our children . |
| 5 | One reason is the need to clean up the mess in Eastern Europe left by Soviet military installations and sloppily run Communist mines and factories . |
| 6 | When the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East went on television that night to clean up the mess that his right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition had put him into again , he did not look pleased about it . |
| 7 | In a move that runs counter its commitment to clean up the environment in former East Germany , the German government has agreed to exempt a huge rubbish tip near Schonberg near the Baltic coast from its regulations for a five year period . |
| 8 | These changes , such as the transfer of land to co-operatives and poorer peasants , the literacy campaign and the present drive to clean up the country 's water sources , all demonstrate a thrust of government policy very different from the regime which ended in 1979 . |
| 9 | After 23 days , the government was threatening to send in the army to clean up the streets . |
| 10 | ‘ I think ’ , he says , ‘ that the Germans had convinced themselves that there was something noble in their quest to clean up the world . |
| 11 | THE heavily-polluted Czech town of Chomutov has threatened to call for a general strike unless the government cleans up the air , a town official said yesterday . |
| 12 | A project to clean up the Ganges which had started in 1985 had so far cost US$115 million and was due to be completed by the end of 1991 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This did not dispel rumours , however , that the resignation was part of an effort to clean up the image of the justice system . |
| 15 | There was still an urgent need for an international effort to clean up the Gulf and to study the long-term effects of the spills and the burning , the organization said . |
| 16 | Electromagnetic compatibility cleaning up the airwaves |
| 17 | Well , a world-famous nature reserve is installing an anti-pollution system to clean up the water flowing through it from the River Severn . |
| 18 | His size belied the touch of a new born babe and he gently coaxed the life back into the cold toes on my injured foot as a nurse cleaned up the cut hand . |