Example sentences of "step up the [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The review team has concluded that the main objective must be to reduce the scope for dissatisfaction by stepping up the pressure on those solicitors who are not yet ‘ up-front ’ about charges . |
| 2 | If she put it all in one account she could step up the return on her £20,000 to 6.45 per cent or £1,290 after tax . |
| 3 | France yesterday stepped up the pressure on the Government to join the ERM . |
| 4 | Her call sharply stepped up the pressure on Prime Minister John Major who has so far ruled out military intervention in the savage civil war . |
| 5 | PRESIDENT Bill Clinton has stepped up the pressure on Bosnia 's warring parties to forge a peace agreement , urging Serbs and Croats to be more flexible and warning that a NATO military response is possible . |
| 6 | HONG KONG has stepped up the pressure on China , promising to publish democratic reform legislation soon unless Beijing agrees to come to the negotiating table . |
| 7 | At a rally they heard the Labour leader John Smith repeat his criticism of the government having a fatal addiction to V A T. Several Conservative MPs have stepped up the pressure on senior ministers to reverse the plans . |
| 8 | The ‘ showdown ’ strategy has been agreed by the Major Energy Users ' Council , which includes companies such as engineering group GKN , Blue Circle Industries and British Coal as part of a ‘ high profile ’ campaign to step up the pressure on government and the regulator . |
| 9 | This advantage was , however , more than offset by the fact that those senior Allied officers and statesmen who had advocated the invasion of Turkey , in order to step up the pressure on the Central Powers in the Middle East and so save lives in the war of attrition in France , had lost the argument . |
| 10 | Around five thousand converged on the Commons to lobby their MPs and the Labour leader sought to step up the pressure on wavering conservatives at a pensioners ' rally . |