Example sentences of "up [verb] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem for the potential incumbent is that it has to get enough customers signed up to enable the prices quoted to be profitable . |
| 2 | Understandably , Tony O'Dalaigh is anxious that what he describes as the ‘ chaos with Archaos ’ does n't hang over reports of the 1991 Dublin Theatre Festival ‘ I would n't want it all to obscure the fact that in terms of the festival 's visibility and the people who turned up to see the shows we had the most successful festival in years . |
| 3 | He took us up to see the students , and the very first ones I saw were Sonia Lawson , already a highly gifted artist , daughter of my friends Fred and Muriel in Redmire ; and one of my best students from Corsham , the vivacious , beautiful and witty Helen Dear , the shining light of my so-called ‘ duds ’ . |
| 4 | He probably will not sleep in the unlikely event of the ghost of mass murderess Mary Ann Cotton showing up to see the graves of her victims . |
| 5 | If the system is set up to compare the amounts of each wavelength coming from different parts of the scene the problem of colour constancy is solved immediately . |
| 6 | Crooks signed up to enjoy the benefits of corruption and to lend their power . |
| 7 | I have brought them up to support the Conservatives , but they are saying they are not going to vote again next time . ’ |
| 8 | And we went away up to gather the violets . |
| 9 | Spurts of flame began to flicker here and there and presently leapt up to redden the fringes of the great smoke cloud which hung above them .... |
| 10 | Much of the housing rapidly thrown up to accommodate the workers was overcrowded and insanitary ( see Ferguson 1964 ) . |
| 11 | Two brick arches put up to channel the waters of an underground river have been uncovered for the first time in nearly two hundred years . |
| 12 | But ink it up using the rags . |
| 13 | Early one morning , I ran up to find the horses had the same idea . |
| 14 | At 5 o'clock they turned up to find the police waiting for them . |
| 15 | Other community teams dealt with all their reviews in one regular weekly meeting which had been set up to meet the requirements of the care programme approach , evidence that this is having a considerable impact on the organization of services in the places where it has been implemented . |
| 16 | Instead of concentrating on the lines of the dance — which they will need if they ever dance in Ashton 's Symphonic Variations or Monotones , MacMillan 's Requiem or Bintley 's Consort Lessons — students spend more time loosening up to meet the demands of modern choreographers . |
| 17 | At worst , one could fall back on the immediate family of brothers and cousins to protect the individual , if only by helping to pay up to meet the demands of the tax collector . |
| 18 | A caring parent would pay a penny or tuppence for some old coat or skirt that could be cut up to meet the needs of some child . |
| 19 | Most countries have systems of government that are relatively modern creations , either designed after cataclysmic political events which required the setting up of entirely new institutions , or set up to meet the needs of newly created or newly independent states . |
| 20 | I was getting that sick I ended up signing the papers and Stephen was adopted . |
| 21 | Social institutions , including that of education , are set up to counteract the shortcomings of nature , to control and exploit it and turn it to human advantage . |
| 22 | Because working-class boys suffer disadvantages in the educational system and are not brought up to accept the values of this system , they are likely to reject the school values and form a delinquent subculture ( Cohen 's definition of this subculture is reproduced as Reading 2 in Chapter 5 ) . |
| 23 | As home secretary , he had psyched himself up to batter the police unions and the chief constables , but on penal policy he was pushed to find anything in the agenda of Tony Blair , his Labour counterpart , to quarrel with . |
| 24 | The Society reached an agreement with most tuna-canners in 1990 , setting up the labelling scheme in return for the canners ' agreeing not to buy tuna that had been caught through drift-netting or " setting-on-dolphins " ( where the mammals are rounded up to catch the schools of tuna which swim beneath them ) . |
| 25 | The Government will also encourage more family doctors to hold budgets to ‘ buy ’ services for patients , and is looking at ways to enable smaller practices to team up to secure the advantages of fund holding . |
| 26 | Ian , who comes from Darlington , intended to take things steady with his Honda CBR 600 but he still ended up challenging the leaders . |
| 27 | His wife 's hair was straggling over her eyes , and she had not made up to hide the ravages of the night 's events . |
| 28 | As the Cuban revolution was dedicated to reducing inequalities of all kinds , it was only a year before the Federation of Cuban Women ( FMC ) was set up to tackle the problems facing women . |
| 29 | Often they ended up wandering the streets . |
| 30 | On the face of it , it may seem that these two approaches can be made to coincide as long as the rules are drawn up to reflect the facts . |