Example sentences of "clear up by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite a last minute clear up by the travellers the common was still strewn with waste — the leftovers of a twenty thousand strong party . |
| 2 | Actually all the doubts just mentioned can be cleared up by the use of one word , though it is a word never used in The Lord of the Rings . |
| 3 | Some of the problems of the relative parts played by waves and currents are in process of being cleared up by the use of traceable sand and shingle . |
| 4 | Again from Criminal Statistics ( 1988 ) we see that there has been an increase in the number of offences cleared up by the police , between 1979 and 1988 of 27.3 per cent ( from 980,700 to 1,248,900 ) . |
| 5 | Chamberlain coughed politely and said he was sure it would be cleared up by the time he took over . |
| 6 | Chamberlain coughed politely and said he was sure it would be cleared up by the time he took over . |
| 7 | It is not generally known that nearly 90% of the 3,500 or so complaints received yearly are cleared up by the secretariat without the need for disciplinary action . |
| 8 | ‘ These were very serious situations which we wanted cleared up by the NRA but they refused to do anything about it . ’ |
| 9 | This problem has been cleared up by the setting of a new standard called DPMI which defines exactly how a pair of enhanced mode programs are to work together . |