Example sentences of "to bring [pers pn] up [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 If this is the case , the European Court held that it must permit the applicant to establish that since obtaining his/her qualifications , he/she had gained further knowledge and qualifications to bring him/her up to the necessary standard .
2 So long as they are not excluded candidates having " too few " votes must be allowed to collect if they can enough transferred votes to bring them up to the quota .
3 Used to bring them up to the dock
4 Used to bring them up to the dock .
5 Older people are incensed that those companies are making huge profits and that their chief executives are receiving huge increases in their salaries to bring them up to the so-called market rate , while they are paying high standing charges .
6 The overall goal is to bring them up to the same standards as the western part of the country by the end of the century .
7 So the , the May the fourth directive is not working because it 's not guaranteeing that the poor get enough to bring them up to the middle peasant status which is , is the aim .
8 The water tanks will be covered and their insulation improved to bring them up to the latest standards .
9 Signora Puglia was consulted and she suggested that she should give me private lessons after school to bring me up to the standard of the others .
10 There is , as yet , no system in operation which allows your competence to be assessed to a national standard , and it will be left to the discretion of your service manager , and course tutors if you have undertaken a back to nursing course , to decide whether you are ready to return , or what additional guidance or preparation you may need to bring you up to the required standard .
11 To bring him up to the required standard he had to go to a boarding preparatory school , which he loathed so much he escaped over the wall and hitchhiked home .
12 He has arrived only a short while before , but did not question the order that von Keller gave to Lt Rosen and several men of the 10th Company to remain close to the vehicle and to bring it up to the battalion by road .
13 At the general meeting of 13 February mentioned above , and on advice from STA headquarters , conveyed by the ETS secretary John Common , the men voted to return to work on " the November conditions " , that is with an extra 2s 6d on the stab rate ( to bring it up to the Glasgow figure ) plus some concessions on overtime , but no joy on piece rates or on the question of hours .
14 I dust down another box and put it on top of the one I am perching on , to bring it up to the height of a normal chair .
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