Example sentences of "[vb past] up the price of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only did the deal fall through , but the Iranian Revolution , and then the Iran-Iraq War which followed it , drove up the price of oil in the West . |
| 2 | The final straw was when the government put up the price of rice yet again . |
| 3 | Ceramic materials may take over the role of cobalt in magnets , a move stimulated by the political upheavals in Zaire in 1978 , which forced up the price of the metal and made many manufacturers look for substitutes . |
| 4 | They attacked specific measures such as tariffs which forced up the price of agricultural machinery . |
| 5 | This July for example the government hiked up the price of milk by over 40 per cent . |