Example sentences of "to [verb] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Church has not always recognised their rights to spiritual growth nor the contribution that they can make to building up the body of Christ . |
| 2 | She advises her clients to involve the users in producing a list of the problems they are expecting an accounting system to solve , in addition to drawing up the more traditional features ‘ hit-list ’ . |
| 3 | The university appointed a new appeal committee with a view to speeding up the hearing . |
| 4 | You 're also prone to dredging up the wounding words and cutting critiques others have directed at you recently . |
| 5 | On the other , he could have devoted his energies to shoring up the regime 's prestige , authority and ability to maintain order . |
| 6 | A stupid game dedicated to shoring up the notion that they did not want to play together . |
| 7 | It is a familiar , yet penetrating , criticism of free market economies that the imperatives companies face to satisfy the adolescent greed of the financial markets and the escalating expectations of shareholders — or else prepare for predators — has diminished the scope of strategic planning to buffing up the next set of interims . |
| 8 | It was a turning point for the business and set Thomas Cook on the road to opening up the world to men and women who had not dreamed of travelling before . |
| 9 | It agreed to draw on creative Marxism and other traditions and transform itself into an empowering organisation in order to contribute to opening up the new political formulations that will be needed across Europe in the post cold-war era . |
| 10 | In addition to opening up the northern prairies , it produced a land boom in northern British Columbia , where land values rose from 50 cents an acre to 30–60 dollars an acre in the space of a few years , and created a new Pacific port at Prince Rupert , 500 miles north of Vancouver , a new town where the population reached 5,000 in the space of two years . |
| 11 | But a major difficulty remains : SSDs will be reluctant to commit themselves to picking up the bill for several months ' residential rehabilitation for someone who may have arrived in the area the previous week . |
| 12 | The process is consequently one more akin to topping up the various activity boxes with water , with flows being initiated from one to another once selected levels have been achieved . |
| 13 | Erm your time was made up , it was then applied to the sheet you know , and , and there was hardly any er personal allocation you know , of , of duty in regard to filling up the timesheets . |
| 14 | Since the acquisition of beautiful paintings and objects became one of the ways to clambering up the slippery social slopes this sort of chatter has become jet-propelled . |
| 15 | And the final year of the company 's three-year commitment to cleaning up the Alaskan coast is about to begin . |
| 16 | We should give thought to cleaning up the environment generally . |
| 17 | When it comes to cleaning up the environment , it is said that ‘ the polluter pays ’ … but who is the polluter ? |
| 18 | Cheaper alternatives to turning up the central heating are to do a brief bout of gentle exercise , which increases body heat from the inside , or to wrap up well , which reduces loss to the outside . |
| 19 | ‘ They 'll give us the extra numbers we 'll need , when it comes to roundin' up the rest of these Triad Jesus freaks . |
| 20 | Eccleshall , from a scenic village north-west of the county town , are more accustomed to propping up the league than heading it . |
| 21 | Her comments on interest rates had little impact on financial markets but they appeared to underscore the Government 's commitment to holding up the pound . |
| 22 | Comrade Springer tries to liven up the party |
| 23 | Er right Mary Whitehouse to come we 'll be talking about sex and the Buddha of Suburbia and er whatever else sort of takes her fancy and we are going to liven up the traffic I think at er round about one twenty five and find out what 's happening there . |
| 24 | Doing so , they argue , would be tantamount to giving up the intifada and accepting the continuation of military rule , without a firm promise that Israel would eventually withdraw . |
| 25 | Further , there is a significant grief reaction to giving up the substance or process of addiction itself . |
| 26 | There is growing opposition in Germany to giving up the deutschmark without any real return in political union , which Chancellor Kohl had said was a precondition of moving to a single currency . |
| 27 | He said he was also looking forward to sailing up the West coast when filming begins next month . |
| 28 | In addition to tightening up the compulsory admission and detention procedures , the new Act tries to deal with the difficult issue of consent to treatment . |
| 29 | But like her own mother and her grandmother before her , when it comes to stocking up the food cupboard for her baby Lisa relies on a name she can trust . |
| 30 | Young women married to salesmen , for once , took an interest in where their husbands would be on the great day ; the older men , who ricocheted between various business interests , were lectured steadily , any time they put in an appearance at home , on the necessity of being in Tollemarche at this time ; and those males who were doomed to spend their lives in Tollemarche found themselves with intolerable lists of jobs to be done , from laying out backyard skating rinks to pinning up the hems on their female relatives ' costumes . |