Example sentences of "have [vb pp] up [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that a deceased 's widow would have given up work to start a family but for the deceased 's death is not a matter to be taken into account so as to increase her dependency on the deceased from the date that she would have given up work ( Malone v Rowan [ 1984 ] 3 All ER 402 ) . |
| 2 | Such investment over and above plan targets must have speeded up modernization . |
| 3 | Also insulate the walls , and eliminate as many draughts as possible , Try to avoid water drips from the roof , as they could have picked up asbestos particles . |
| 4 | ( Charles may have picked up malaria in Italy in 875 : he was seriously ill from late July to mid-August 876 , and from December 876 to January 877 . |
| 5 | The presence of a population of seldom fewer than 2,000 cormorants , 20,000 gulls ( including the rarest of all gulls , Saunders ' gull ) , 15,000 ducks , 5,000 herons and 10,000 waders must have conjured up nightmare pictures of the risk of birdstrikes . |
| 6 | In addition , the very high demand in the early seventies may well have pushed up investment goods prices especially fast . |
| 7 | They would have stirred up trouble for nothing . |
| 8 | If you have already extended your house in the past , you may have used up part or all of the allowance , and you will have to apply for planning permission for the garage . |
| 9 | Although the basic position of the continents had remained unchanged since the Mesozoic , variations in the sea level might have opened up land passages between areas now separated by shallow seas . |
| 10 | Kinnock 's success in altering party policy was made easier , if less meaningful , by the end of the cold war , but a public onslaught on the Conservatives ' military record , including the maintainance of Trident , would have opened up debate within Labour ranks , as well as risking alienating voters on the question of defence employment . |
| 11 | For most of this period , this simply meant allowing money supply to expand to accommodate increases in aggregate demand associated with expansionary fiscal policy ( otherwise the shortage of money would have driven up interest rates ) . |
| 12 | Some claim that Disney should have set up shop in sunny Spain rather than chilly Paris . |
| 13 | He could only have shored up Labour 's establishment in Scotland and Wales by fragmenting its UK establishment , and betraying the north of England component . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 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 | He wondered whether he should have taken up farming instead of cooking . |
| 17 | ‘ I suppose I might have ended up bowling up the hill into the wind at Headingley , and that might not have done much for my prospects , but generally the policy change was inevitable , and I am glad it happened . ’ |
| 18 | The newspaper said Reagan officials , and to a lesser extent officials from the administrations of Jimmy Carter and George Bush , may have covered up evidence of abuses to win approval from Congress of $6 billion ( £4 billion ) in aid . |
| 19 | We could have bumped up interest rates but the client was reluctant to do this and we felt that a more cost-effective promotion would work . |