Example sentences of "[v-ing] up [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shoring up Monopoly Catholicism |
| 2 | ‘ He set it up I just ran interference for him trying to keep your people looking the wrong way with talk about opening up Winter Garden again . |
| 3 | Asking Mr and Mrs Bloggs if they had seen the improvement in specific aspects of Fred 's work and then showing examples to back up statements made is one way of opening up discussion to avoid teacher domination of the meeting . |
| 4 | Wimbledon followed suit a little later by opening up competition to professional tennis players . |
| 5 | He was one of the pioneers in opening up archaeology to everyone , both through his books and through radio and television appearances . |
| 6 | Although sharp disagreements remained on the question of agricultural trade and on opening up government procurement to foreign companies , there was agreement on ( i ) curbs on general industrial and commercial subsidies ; ( ii ) speedy resolution of intellectual property rights ; and ( iii ) special treatment for special service sectors such as air transport and shipping . |
| 7 | Sir Leon Brittan , the EC Commissioner responsible for competition policy , had said on Aug. 30 that the Commission would consider opening up membership of the unified financial services market to members of the European Free Trade Association ( EFTA ) ; he stressed , however , the need for reciprocal liberalization in those countries ( Switzerland and most of Scandinavia imposing tight limits on the extent of foreign shareholdings in their domestic companies ) . |
| 8 | Opening up forest land to new migrants also has a double effect : the newcomers lack immunity to local strains of disease and suffer accordingly , while also importing diseases from outside to which the indigenous forest peoples are similarly vulnerable — as happened with malaria in the Brazilian Amazon . |
| 9 | Opening up shop after Pakistan had followed on 473 behind , he was still behind the counter at tea on the final day , ‘ praying for success ’ as he steered his side towards 657 for 8 dec , the highest Test total ever made under such circumstances . |
| 10 | If the current GATT proposals for opening up world trade for agriculture were inaugurated , he said , they would force Third World farmers to industrialise their production or be " washed away as if by a catastrophic flood " . |
| 11 | You are poisoning the very sources of order and happiness and virtue ; you are tearing up root and branch all relations of families to each other ; you are annulling , as it were , the institution of domestic life decreed by Providence Himself , the wisest and kindest of earthly ordinances , the mainstay of social peace and virtue and therein of national security . |
| 12 | In the silence we hear a cow tearing up grass by the roots and chewing . |
| 13 | The problem in gearing up investment to shoot off down the experience curve and become the cost leader is that you may be overtaken by technology . |
| 14 | Keeping up morale in the Falklands |
| 15 | Even the government realized the importance of cosmetics in keeping up morale amongst women workers . |
| 16 | But instead he is talking about keeping up research and development on space-based systems — which is exactly what was being done before . |
| 17 | AN MP is keeping up pressure on the Government to improve East Anglia 's coastal defences after last month 's surge tide which resulted in widespread flooding . |
| 18 | I got such a shock that I toppled over sideways , ending up chest deep in freezing water . |
| 19 | Even when I 'm on days I have n't the cash to go gallivanting up West every night . ’ |
| 20 | Those bidding up share prices these days must believe in an endless supply of future suckers . |
| 21 | The houses of the early firemen had red crosses , fixed over the door , so marked to assist the knocking up boy . |
| 22 | Maura said you were driving up north . ’ |
| 23 | Acer is the latest PC company to jump on the bandwagon signing up handwriting recognition software expert CIC to develop pen based applications to be run on Acer hardware . |
| 24 | A winding up order in respect of the bank was made in January 1992 . |
| 25 | The process of winding up Laventhol & Horwath , formerly the seventh largest accountancy firm in the US , which entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in November 1990 ( see ACCOUNTANCY , December 1990 , p 9 ) , is now nearing its conclusion . |
| 26 | Wilko does n't seem to be the smartest when it comes to totting up transfer prices ! |
| 27 | He ignored the customers and began totting up cash and postal orders . |
| 28 | One of them was his habitual slowness , especially in handling and totting up cash ; for , before he took up duties in the foreign exchange department of Lloyds in the semi-basement room at the branch at 20 King William Street ( no wonder that the eyes and back , at the end of the day , turned ‘ upward ’ from the desk ) , he worked for a period behind the counter . |
| 29 | Unable to breakout of the academic circuit in the UK , the US arm manoeuvred itself into the military market , mopping up defence supercomputing contracts . |
| 30 | These could include promising to join the European Monetary System and mopping up liquidity by , for example , special banking deposit rates . |