Example sentences of "up [noun sg] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Successful applicants will be able to build up entitlement to normal benefits such as concessionary mortgages . |
2 | The reform of the national insurance system advocated here will also lead to all workers building up entitlement to national insurance benefits . |
3 | The methods that she uses erm , and I think this needs to be done well before a disaster , unfortunately so often people only react at times like this and I think it 's such a pity that they do n't do it beforehand , but it 's working on basic assertiveness skills , communications skills like giving a language for feelings , erm building up support for each other , plus the creative work — getting things down |
4 | Tax reform has a crucial part to play in springing the underclass from welfare dependency , as well as building up support for such a programme amongst a much wider group of the electorate . |
5 | Banks step up support for new technology |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Now the organisers are hoping to drum up support from local businesses to beat the threat of closure and keep the Playday alive . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 ) . |
13 | My second is never give up hope of eventual restitution . |
14 | When doctors gave up hope of any recovery , they sent him home to be with Altovise when he died . |
15 | However , this doe snot apply so much to our other son , Robert , who is a private music teacher in Glasgow , so we see quite a lot of him and his wife and their baby son , who arrived just over a year ago , when we had given up hope of any more grandchildren . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | We will give people a new right of access to open country , create new national parks and step up protection for special sites . |
18 | The Government is promising to review the laws that have enabled tens of thousands of new age hippies to set up camp on common land . |
19 | I would be especially interested to hear from anyone who has experience of setting up provision for such people . |
20 | She took up guitar at seven , gave her first recital at nine , her first concerto at 10 , her first radio broadcast at 14 , won an international guitar competition at 17 , and has continued to pick up awards and critical plaudits on her chosen instrument . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | With the crowd being the most volatile in the Caribbean — rioting held up play for 25 minutes during the Test against India in 1989 -there might be some trouble but only if the West Indies are faring badly , rather than as a result of any anti-South African sentiment . |
23 | Build up exposure in early mornings and late afternoons , when the sun is weaker . |
24 | WFP makes the statement that the RMI will be ‘ extended and accelerated ’ with the aim of building up coverage to those units by the end of 1991/92 , ie March 1992 . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | I suppose you 've got to weigh up sot of various . |
28 | A follow up study on 22 patients before and at least one year after eradication of H pylori showed that the mean extent of gastric metaplasia did not change significantly after eradication and did not differ when compared wth 21 patients with persisting infection . |
29 | By the time Thomas , Sue Fletcher and Tim Hely Hutchinson set up Headline in 1986 , working to five-year plans had already become something of a way of life for her . |
30 | And if the road starts to go downhill , you can even pick up speed without any further pedalling . |