Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This provided a package of financial incentives and exemptions from various laws and regulations to encourage businesses to set up in the zones . |
| 2 | When a senior executive arrived at the studio a day or two later he found parcels piling up in the reception area . |
| 3 | They resembled whales lined up outside the headmaster 's office — huge humps sprawled over many kilometres . |
| 4 | The structure appeared to have been built into the air , with scaffolding and support systems running up towards the sky . |
| 5 | • Many environmental consultancies produce publications to help clients keep up with the fast changing world of environmental legislation and regulatory affairs issues . |
| 6 | A couple are planning to drive their vintage Rolls Royce through the Alps to help children caught up in the war in Croatia . |
| 7 | She has been appointed a ‘ Goodwill Ambassador ’ by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees after her work to help children caught up in the conflict in Bosnia . |
| 8 | The chlorine is picked up as aerosols droplets containing salt for example from breaking waves taken up by the atmosphere , carried over the land , rained down again , gets into the rivers and ends up back in the sea . |
| 9 | One escapes the old analogy only by submitting to another ; the role of logic , even when it is suspected that there is something wrong at the foundations of the argument , is confined to applying and criticizing concepts thrown up by the spontaneous process of analogizing . |
| 10 | It is also women who are the targets of the state 's sex stormtroopers , the Special Claims Control squads set up in the 1970s . |
| 11 | We can create particles made up of the other quarks ( strange , charmed , bottom , and top ) , but these all have a much greater mass and decay very rapidly into protons and neutrons . |
| 12 | In the 1920s , State museums stocked up with the better known works by profiting from confiscations and arrests ; in the 1930s and 1940s , by profiting from arrests and confiscations , and even from the unseen but colossal stockpile of war trophies . |
| 13 | IXI says the initiative will also encourage users to move up to the latest 1.2 release of Motif — many are sticking with version 1.1 for the foreseeable future , unconvinced of the robustness of the new environment ( UX No 394 ) . |
| 14 | Without the protection of these interests , the market order legitimated by interests theory countenances too many opportunities to trick and exploit others to live up to the virtues of trust and solidarity . |
| 15 | The dawn was breaking as the cars rolled off the ferry at North Wall ; there was a sullen , red-streaked sky , with banks of threatening clouds building up on the horizon . |
| 16 | I used to run , pick ladies smocks up down the tailors . |
| 17 | Patrol cars drew up at the bottom of the steps . |
| 18 | The result of this is likely to be that close work will present few difficulties , but more distant visual tasks such as reading sentences written up on the blackboard will give problems . |
| 19 | The regional affairs commissioner , Bruce Millan , also announced intentions to tighten up on the EC 's additionality principle — the rule that EC spending must be additional to planned national government spending . |
| 20 | While Paris 's tenure saw events swallowed up by the huge bicentenary celebrations , West Berlin 's year stimulated an extraordinary range of artistic events , concentrated in the summer months . |
| 21 | But such paradoxes were unlikely to convince businessmen brought up on the economic theory of the ‘ wage-fund ’ , which they believed to be a scientific demonstration that raising wages was impossible and trade unions were therefore doomed to failure . |
| 22 | Many of the offices are in the West End of London , where rentals are still growing , and there are quite a few rent reviews coming up in the next few months . |
| 23 | Kate , still frightened she might be recognised , had chosen to have meals sent up to the apartment from the nearest restaurant . |
| 24 | For their money , they got traditional advice — Gover would always try to get batsmen to live up to the technical ideal of Jack Hobbs — put in an unstuffy and flexible way : ‘ We would fit the mould to the customers , not the other way round . ’ |
| 25 | Some people try to introduce toys that do not reinforce gender stereotypes but , nevertheless , girls are much more likely to get dolls to dress up in the latest fashion , boys more likely to get toys for military-type games . |
| 26 | ‘ I prefer it if men find ways of dressing to enhance their personality rather than using clothes to make up for the lack of one . |
| 27 | Existing techniques are accurate enough to measure such changes in the Sun 's size directly , and monitoring programmes set up in the wake of these various claims and counter-claims will resolve the issue , one way or another , before the end of the decade . |
| 28 | Every evening throughout the winter thousands of birds , including Bewick Swans , Canada Geese and Greylag Geese queue up on the Swan lake for their late meal of wheat . |
| 29 | Every evening throughout the winter thousands of birds , including Bewick Swans , Canada Geese and Greylag Geese queue up on the Swan lake for their late meal of wheat . |
| 30 | Especially if more of the carefully planned meals end up on the wall than in the mouth . |