Example sentences of "[vb infin] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could it not buy up businesses abroad ( $45 billion over the whole period 1950–67 ) , make loans and grants to foreign governments ( $50 billion ) or finance military expenditure abroad ( $44 billion ) simply by printing money ? |
| 2 | Russia 's freeing of prices had caused controversy with other CIS member states , which were effectively compelled to follow suit , since Russian consumers would otherwise simply buy up goods at controlled prices from neighbouring republics . |
| 3 | Why does n't someone buy up Japan before it owns everyone ? |
| 4 | A previous rights issue in 1991 raised some £25 million and helped the company buy up development land at bargain prices . |
| 5 | not to let them get out of the pov that 's what I 'm saying , it suits them because they can buy up property much cheaper than if that two hundred pounds a week that 's being spent on bed and breakfast , that , they were spent on helping them with the problems as they are at the moment . |
| 6 | This flat had to be sold by the council , and the ADC states that by allowing tenants to purchase such dwellings , the Government will ensure that over time younger households will buy up accommodation formerly occupied by older people ; |
| 7 | As the carriages were successively condemned , the ‘ receiver ’ , who ran the railway , would buy up job lots and you never knew if you would be travelling in something from the Brecon & Merthyr , the London & South Western , or the Cockermouth Keswick & Penrith . |
| 8 | Anyone who wished to hoax an archaeologist need only buy up Quirke 's stock and then sink it in a bog to be rediscovered . |
| 9 | Yeah , I think there 's is n't there in there really ? plain white bag I 'm going to hopefully put out in there to protect that , those groups I do n't know why that suddenly can fall up side down , but it 's alright . |
| 10 | Black Agnes was outraged , declaring that she would never yield up Dunbar Castle to the English , despite her traitor husband , and she was now seeking help . |
| 11 | Any plan at the $9 billion level , though , must include details of cuts to be made elsewhere at NASA that will free up $2 billion . |
| 12 | This fact sheet actually says yes here , but eh , if you say no , then er it will free up disk space . |
| 13 | It could also tie up members of the C E C , the General Secretary , the Regional Secretary , the President , Officers and many others in internal wrangles new union just at the time when we need to look outward in the next two or three years . |
| 14 | For the record , too , the Press spokesman said the president only had the haircut because he was assured that doing so would not tie up traffic at the airport . |
| 15 | They did not screw up Niki 's car deliberately , but they probably thought the wind had gone out of his sails . |
| 16 | Special consideration of alternative strategies , such as nutritional or surgical intervention , is warranted for children who are already stunted at the time of diagnosis and therefore need extra catch up growth . |
| 17 | There are only certain ways , it seems , you can drum up support . |
| 18 | When she gon na pack up work ? |
| 19 | She 'll never pack up Joyce , she wo n't , she 'll never pack up |
| 20 | ‘ Christ , let's pack up chaps . ’ |
| 21 | There are three polarisation states for deuterium nuclei , so only a third of the atoms in unpolarised deuterium will line up perpendicular to the magnetic fields . |
| 22 | A report from US National Park Service scientists has argued that the proposed use of underground water systems by the city of Las Vegas may dry up water supplies in a large area of the National Park system . |
| 23 | Heat from the projector will dry up ink in the pens more quickly than with preparation on the film beforehand . |
| 24 | How dare he whip up strangers to hostility because I did n't wear clothes clearly indicating my sex — what was it to them whether I was a woman or a man ? |
| 25 | However , the New York-based human rights group Middle East Watch was reported on Dec. 17 to have estimated the deaths at 1,000 and arrests at 5,000 ; its director , Andrew Whiteley , was quoted as saying that there was no wish to overstate human rights abuses in order to " whip up war fever " . |
| 26 | It is possible , however , that the Maktoums may snap up Manton for Hern . |
| 27 | Hong Kong Land 's low gearing , and chairman Simon Keswick 's suggestion that he could snap up property at depressed prices , triggered hopes the company was interested in Canary Wharf . |
| 28 | Porter International is adapting it for power plants , inland waterway structures , any place which is exposed to raw water , where plant or animal life can choke up intakes or block piping . |
| 29 | European Marketing , Chevenoz , France , will market YMI 's stuff on the continent , UK , Oxford-based Phase IV Systems will head up support services for Europe and sell to VARs — Open Minds AB of Lund , Sweden , will market YMI 's educational software . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , work is under way on a European Commission draft directive which could tighten up demands already implicit in UK fire safety regulations . |