Example sentences of "up [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Banks step up support for new technology |
| 2 | YUGOSLAV jet fighters launched rocket attacks on villages in western Bosnia-Hercegovina yesterday as federal forces appeared to step up support for Serbian militiamen in the ethnic conflict convulsing the former Yugoslav republic . |
| 3 | Christians had been compelled to give up meetings for corporate worship , but still kept up small prayer meetings in houses . |
| 4 | The daily Clarín reported on March 3 that under a decree signed by Menem on Feb. 26 , 1990 ( expanding an earlier decree of March 10 , 1989 , introduced after the La Tablada attack — see p. 36394 and below ) , the armed forces were entitled to intervene in the event of " a state of internal disturbance " serious enough to endanger the life , liberty , property or security of the country 's inhabitants ; with this in mind the National Security Council [ see p. 36613 ] was to draw up plans for possible joint actions by the police , the security forces and the armed forces . |
| 5 | Already the Pentagon is drawing up plans for long-term containment , including the construction of training and recreational facilities for thousands of troops . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Instead the party will set up a top level group to investigate prostitution and draw up plans for new laws . |
| 8 | In 1980 the Italian Attiero Spinelli and other parliamentarians founded the ‘ Crocodile Club ’ ( named after a Luxembourg restaurant ) to draw up plans for institutional reform , and in 1981 Parliament established an Institutional Committee with Spinelli as a member . |
| 9 | Confirmation that ministers were drawing up plans for local government and judicial reform was enough to satisfy many . |
| 10 | We will give people a new right of access to open country , create new national parks and step up protection for special sites . |
| 11 | The European Commission has drawn up proposals for compulsory recovery of 90 per cent of all packaging waste . |
| 12 | It was not a directly elected body , though it was given the right under the Treaty to draw up proposals for direct elections . |
| 13 | Labour would have backed his ambitious scheme to step up funding for European industry and would have been less rigid in opposing transfers of cash to the poorer regions . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The duke 's campaign of the previous season , which had won Berwick for the crown , may have whipped up enthusiasm for future conquests , but it had also been a lesson in the expense and difficulty of winning a small piece of land and the cost of keeping it thereafter . |
| 16 | The duke 's campaign of the previous season , which had won Berwick for the crown , may have whipped up enthusiasm for future conquests , but it had also been a lesson in the expense and difficulty of winning a small piece of land and the cost of keeping it thereafter . |
| 17 | The loss of competitive edge might open up demands for protective measures against countries which have imposed no limitations on their own industries . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It may also open up opportunities for barrack-room lawyers . |
| 20 | But political changes in several countries have opened up opportunities for alternative broadcasting channels . |
| 21 | Where there is consolidation , this offers up opportunities for commercial and industrial companies , for example , where materials such as glass , bricks , cement , tiles and pipes are supplied in large quantities for construction . |
| 22 | Unable to do anything in bed but lie and whimper so temporarily give up search for progressive chemist who keeps contraceptives out on display . |
| 23 | France steps up search for cheap breeder |
| 24 | In fact , it was the extra revenue she brought in at the baby end that enabled the charity to open up units for cervical cancer , and fund other research into unappealing but equally vital conditions . |
| 25 | ‘ Perhaps I 'm hoping to meet a man rich enough to keep me in comfort so I can indulge my every whim and fancy and give up work for good , ’ she said drily . |
| 26 | The work in setting up sanctuaries for threatened chimps began when she was asked by the American ambassador in Burundi to design a conservation plan . |
| 27 | Councils were supposed to set up sites for industrial and domestic wastes ; the Baldonnell site was to marshal other unsuitable wastes . |
| 28 | Those dreaming up ideas for new cars , new seats , new air-conditioning systems will be non-Japanese managers . |
| 29 | This Carpenter 's In-House store at Headington in Oxford is one of twenty-six accross the country that has shut up shop for good . |
| 30 | At one stage , he considered closing up shop for good . |