Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] up by " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was absolutely great and confirmed to everybody in the band that what I was doing was viable , and I got picked up by an agent right away — the same night , in fact . ’ |
| 2 | The Chancellor announced that public borrowing has shot up by £9 billion from £28 billion to £37 billion . |
| 3 | Does he admit that the waiting list for day patients has shot up by 50 per cent ? |
| 4 | Domestic demand for water has shot up by 70 per cent over the last 30 years , especially in the affluent southeast . |
| 5 | A third source of opportunity has opened up by the increased willingness of many firms to contemplate non-traditional forms of investment ( NFI ) , also in their marginal territories . |
| 6 | But since we have switched to Radio 1 , they have perked up again and production has gone up by four per cent . ’ |
| 7 | The number of nurses and midwives has gone up by 69,000 . |
| 8 | Mintel the consumer trend watchers claim that consumer spending on DIY and garden products has gone up by 96 per cent between 1983 and 1989 ; while spending on furniture and furnishings has increased by 52 per cent in the same period . |
| 9 | The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has gone up by 25% over the past 150 years . |
| 10 | As a result , payload with full fuel has gone up by eighty per cent , and range after a maximum weight landing is now 3,000 miles against 1,800 miles for the GIV , enabling the SP to make more intermediate stops without refuelling . |
| 11 | THE price of a sunshine package holiday has gone up by eight per cent — to an average £350 a head . |
| 12 | I think it has gone up by 900% . |
| 13 | In the last 12 months net unemployment in the whole of the European Community has gone up by 940,000 . |
| 14 | Since then , the directors have done little other than line their own pockets , award themselves enormous pay increases and indulge in dodgy share options , all of which has been done at the expense of the domestic customer , whose bill has gone up by 40 per cent . |
| 15 | May we have an urgent inquiry into why , over the past three years , the number of complaints against the health service in Lewisham and North Southwark has gone up by 100 per cent. , why there have been 30 complaints already this year and why serious complaints of maladministration and negligence have been made against Guy 's , King 's College and St. |
| 16 | It has gone up by four , five and 10 times as much among our competitors , and the right hon. Gentleman is still not doing anything to bring Britain out of recession , to give us recovery . |
| 17 | and that unemployment has gone up by 750,000 ? |
| 18 | In the last 18 months of recession , unemployment in Britain has gone up by 1 million and the British economy has contracted by nearly 4 per cent . |
| 19 | Each year the amount has gone up by inflation , and yet we see something approaching thirty thousand underspent on previous years , and here we are looking in the first year of this council to a , a , at least a five percent overspend and er , I wonder if we 've erm , excluded the time when there were n't many meetings at the beginning if we would n't have seen a considerably larger overspend . |
| 20 | The paper circulated demonstrates that since eighty-eight nine through to ninety-three four , whereas county council spending as a whole has gone up by thirty-eight percent , spending on the police has gone up by eighty-eight percent , and that 's more than double . |
| 21 | The paper circulated demonstrates that since eighty-eight nine through to ninety-three four , whereas county council spending as a whole has gone up by thirty-eight percent , spending on the police has gone up by eighty-eight percent , and that 's more than double . |
| 22 | This has gone up by R P I , |
| 23 | Members heard how the number of offences has gone up by seventeen percent in the past year although the actual rate of increase does seem to be slowing up . |
| 24 | Burglary at homes has gone up by 23pc and fraud , shoplifting , and car crime are also rising rapidly . |
| 25 | Figures for 1987 , compared with those for 1984 , show that the total annual output has increased by 18,000 tonnes , while manufacture within specification has gone up by 36,000 tonnes . |
| 26 | You Queenie Warley mentioned earlier that the number of personnel has gone up by what , a hundred per cent ? |
| 27 | The task force , however , has ended up by endorsing the Thomas report recommending that large chunks of forest containing dead trees where the owls live be preserved . |
| 28 | SALFORD scrum half Mark Dobson , who has sharpened up by training with Olympic sprinter David Grindley , has been given a free transfer . |
| 29 | ‘ Tell them you got shot up by enemy aircraft , ’ Woolley said . |
| 30 | He got phoned up by the other players ? |