Example sentences of "[verb] up of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm It all gets mixed up of course because there 's , there 's there 's erm erm Russia which is seen as a power , you know the reactionary power . |
| 2 | Therefore , while absence may spell the end of acquaintanceship , it will not in itself destroy friendship ; and while Dr Johnson was right to say that we should keep our friendships in good repair , the perpetual shoring up of friendship might suggest that it were less enduring than we had supposed . |
| 3 | ‘ Spinal Tap ’ may have been the ultimate send up of the genre but ‘ Spinal Tap ’ is most metal fans ' favourite film . |
| 4 | They were a tremendous send up of ‘ camp ’ characters years before their time , two ‘ glaring queens ’ , as Paddick pointed out . |
| 5 | The EC favoured further opening up of the customer equipment market ; a separation of the regulatory and operational functions of the telephone authority ; a more cost-oriented pricing of services ; the major network and a small number of basic services would remain the monopoly of the telecoms administration . |
| 6 | A general opening up of economies to multilateral trade . |
| 7 | One of the more curious recent products of the Bush administration has been the hyping up of a new anti-poverty idea in terms that sound more like black radicalism of the 1960s . |
| 8 | His mild reaction to the tearing up of the Treaty of Versailles was perhaps explicable by the fact that he saw such events as inevitable and because the Foreign Office was locked into a policy of appeasement . |
| 9 | Heath and his colleagues next abolished the parliament and constitution of Northern Ireland in defiance of all Commonwealth constitutional precedent and despite the fact that the action was a unilateral tearing up of an international treaty registered at the League of Nations . |
| 10 | With Hitler 's tearing up of the Munich agreement , with the invasion of the rest of Czechoslovakia and the threat to Poland , British public opinion began to distrust Hitler 's word and the nature of nazism changed markedly . |
| 11 | In this case , however , it may be that present sea level coincides with an older sea level to so close a degree that the erosion platform merely represents the trimming up of an earlier one . |
| 12 | 1751 " And in regaird Shawfield was in use to ffurnish three setts of News papers for this Country , till of Late that the same was withdrawn , And that at first Erecting of the post office here , Shawfield agreed to Continow the same with us for our Encouragement in keeping up of a post . |
| 13 | 1751 " And in regaird Shawfield was in use to ffurnish three setts of News papers for this Country , till of Late that the same was withdrawn , And that at first Erecting of the post office here , Shawfield agreed to Continow the same with us for our Encouragement in keeping up of a post . |
| 14 | ‘ These include a fishing boat haven at the lough , woodland walks and the general sprucing up of the look of the place , such as taking away all overhead electricity wires and putting them underground and getting a new street lighting system . |
| 15 | Area fisheries officer Vaughan Lewis said : ‘ The Wye has a healthy trout population but silting up of the river bed can be a problem . |
| 16 | Today , I think people would say that a lot of what we did in those early days has been influential in the general brightening up of the high streets in this country . |
| 17 | But again there is ambivalence over whether they should be encouraged into the countryside : to the farmer and conservationist alike a vision is conjured up of marauding inner-city teenagers and other undesirable aliens , wreaking havoc in an environment best kept well away from ‘ those kinds of people ’ . |
| 18 | JOHN Armstrong 's paintings , ‘ built up of remembered things which in my case have been miscalled surrealist ’ , have a poetic appeal which often beats Dali , Magritte et al at their own game . |
| 19 | They are phoney devices built up of strips of card or other material to give an appearance of genuine binding . |
| 20 | It is a three-dimensional , fibrous structure , built up of protein blocks which the tanning process makes resistant to putrefaction and softens to a degree that suits the end use . |
| 21 | And tonight the orchestra , intrigued by the vibrations they had picked up of something unusual happening this season , gave the entrance a full-bodied flourish of emotional sound , a build-up of chord and melody that culminated with Therese , shimmering , a mass of silver and flashing diamonds , swinging her way down to front stage , smiling , radiant , totally in control , moving quickly , gracefully around her stage guests , a wave of her muff to this one , a kiss blown to that . |
| 22 | Tranmere 's form has picked up of late … they could pose a real threat tomorrow … |
| 23 | Following the winding up of the Political Prisoners Release Committee , Caughey became secretary of a small group called Irish Union , which , in its personnel , provided a link between the NICCL and the later Wolfe Tone Societies and NICRA . |
| 24 | The only remedy available to the holders of the subordinated debt in the event of default is to petition for the winding up of the company . |
| 25 | The Court of Session agreed on the issue of unfair prejudice but did not accept that , because unfair prejudice had not been found , it would be inappropriate to make an order for the winding up of the company . |
| 26 | IV Winding up of companies registered under the Companies Act |
| 27 | V Winding up of unregistered companies |
| 28 | Indeed today in the High Court a petition is being presented for the compulsory winding up of the company . |
| 29 | In the end it was overtaken by the advent of the ‘ New Draperies ’ , but the downward trend had set in well before the establishment of these in East Anglia ; indeed , in the event they came to replace the contracting broadcloth manufacture which , even as early as 1523 , had shown signs of instability : it was symptomatic of recession that no less than 35 per cent of Spring 's liquid assets had to be written off as irrecoverable , and the winding up of his affairs can not but have dealt its prosperity a mortal blow . |
| 30 | no resolution may be passed or order made for the winding up of the company ; |