Example sentences of "[noun sg] clean up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In early September north European government officials meeting in Ronneby , Sweden , agreed to implement an emergency programme to clean up the Baltic and to halve the inflow of harmful substances by 1995 . |
| 2 | In mid-January 1991 the Indian government announced a programme to clean up the 800-km long Yamuna River which flowed through Delhi before joining the Ganges at Allahabad , and was polluted by ( among other sources ) untreated chemicals from a major oil refinery at Mathura and several tanneries in Agra . |
| 3 | According to Santiago O ate , attorney-general for environmental protection , the government has already invested $400 million in a programme to clean up the industrial zone on the US border , home to many of the so-called maquiladora industries , which locate there to take advantage of Mexico 's relatively lax pollution regulations . |
| 4 | In the light of concern in the USA about environmental damage from new industrialization in Mexico , the USA on Feb. 25 unveiled an Integrated Border Plan to clean up the polluted US-Mexican 2,560-km frontier , to which the USA would commit $380,000,000 over two years and Mexico $460,000,000 over three years . |
| 5 | The formation of such a vacuum is a dangerous possibility which will be avoided only if the nations of the world make a concerted effort to clean up the religious chaos once and for all . |
| 6 | He also sees the need to reform the electoral system to clean up the political system . |