Example sentences of "up [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Golden Freeze is not well handicapped and has gone up 4lb since finishing second to Joint Sovereignty in the Mackeson . |
| 2 | Successful applicants will be able to build up entitlement to normal benefits such as concessionary mortgages . |
| 3 | The reform of the national insurance system advocated here will also lead to all workers building up entitlement to national insurance benefits . |
| 4 | Banks step up support for new technology |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Now the organisers are hoping to drum up support from local businesses to beat the threat of closure and keep the Playday alive . |
| 7 | For most of the period from 1912 to 1945 Rhee lived in the United States where he was eventually to build up support from American friends , who assisted in financing his activities . |
| 8 | He had to shore up support among traditional Democrats , and he did ; hence the expectation that he would be the harbinger of a hundred new social policies on everything from vaccination to AIDS . |
| 9 | The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 , which had placed barriers between commercial and investment banking , would be repealed in order to permit well-capitalized banks to set up affiliates in other sectors of the financial areas . |
| 10 | As an assistant you will probably gather information , draft press releases , make up media invitation lists , search out information , set up meetings with outside specialists and consultants , deliver information to the media ( here is a chance to chat and get to know some faces in the media world ) . |
| 11 | Christians had been compelled to give up meetings for corporate worship , but still kept up small prayer meetings in houses . |
| 12 | Perhaps it was for the same reason that Mrs Parvis , so Gloria claimed , put crushed up egg-shells into powdered egg so that the lodgers would think they were eating something which they were n't . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Already the Pentagon is drawing up plans for long-term containment , including the construction of training and recreational facilities for thousands of troops . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Instead the party will set up a top level group to investigate prostitution and draw up plans for new laws . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Confirmation that ministers were drawing up plans for local government and judicial reform was enough to satisfy many . |
| 19 | The morning train from Sidney picked up milk from various farms for shipment to Victoria and on at least one occasion it was held up for two hours while cows , that had been turned into the bush the previous night to pick up what nourishment they could were searched for , rounded up , milked and the milk loaded for the trip to town . |
| 20 | The Scots had not only to reconstruct their self-image , but also to build up contacts with new friends and allies , the main but by no means the only one being France . |
| 21 | ‘ We have been drawing up profiles of potential smugglers so that we know who or what type of people to look for using intelligence sources . |
| 22 | We took up cases of sexual harassment as well , although it was difficult . |
| 23 | Recent thinking on metaphor has been greatly influenced by Nietzsche who recognized that the process of dividing up experience into discrete domains was one of ‘ coagulation ’ ( 1979:86 ) , the construction of a discursive system on the ‘ running water ’ ( 85 ) of metaphor . |
| 24 | IPSWICH Witches have not given up hope of 23-year-old Pole Miroslaw Kowalik riding in tomorrow 's Star of Anglia meeting at Foxhall Stadium ( writes Elvin King ) . |
| 25 | My second is never give up hope of eventual restitution . |
| 26 | Longer-term economic reforms to boost foreign investment included the loosening of environmental and Aboriginal heritage controls in planning procedures for mining projects , the completion of deregulation of the aviation market , and further relaxation of rules to open up banking to foreign competition . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , the Secretary of State has the power to draw up regulations about what can be charged for and what can not and the Education Reform Act required local authorities and school governors to draw up policies on charging parents for their children 's out-of-school activities . |
| 28 | ‘ An advance guard of hundreds of men , with bulldozers , mechanical shovels , tractors and lorries has for months been scarring the lowlands , daubing the green acres with splashes of grey clay and red earth in a mariner unseen since Beaker Folk raised their burial mounds or Saxons threw up ramparts on surrounding hills . |
| 29 | to be designed around the established needs of the Course and its working practices , academic structure and regulations , in order to assist all staff and students to fulfil their roles ( on occasion , analysis for proposed developments showed up imperfections in existing procedures and sharpened user perceptions of their roles and working practices ) ; |
| 30 | They each have grown up sons with severe learning difficulties and need to be at home . |