Example sentences of "up the country " in BNC.
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| 1 | BRITISH STEEL yesterday snapped up the country 's biggest steel stockholding company in a £330m deal which gives it control of 20 per cent of the UK market and turns two Lancashire businessmen into millionaires many times over . |
| 2 | Another contender may be the emerging empire of Thaksin Shinawatra , who began by distributing IBM computers in Thailand , set up the country 's first cable-television operation and has now received permission to establish his own cellular-telephone network . |
| 3 | He drove leisurely up the country lane and ascended the hill , before bearing left along the escarpment . |
| 4 | If the Mujahideen divide up the country among themselves it is likely that the big divide would be along these mountains , which would then become the new division between Central Asia and the Indian sub-continent . |
| 5 | Civil war has been eating up the country for five years . |
| 6 | In May 1981 Sheffield City Council set up the country 's first Employment Committee , serviced directly by a new council department . |
| 7 | That is why Britain should base its efforts to cable up the country on optical fibre , rather than on an obsolescent technology |
| 8 | By doing business , inviting foreign experts to work and teach inside China and opening up the country to the world , progress seemed certain . |
| 9 | A huge land-grab is going on in Bosnia-Herzegovina today as Serbs and Croats fight to divide up the country . |
| 10 | For many who in the early twentieth century longed for the ‘ regeneration ’ of Spain , the phrase ‘ oligarchy and caciquismo ’ summed up the country 's ills . |
| 11 | These changes , such as the transfer of land to co-operatives and poorer peasants , the literacy campaign and the present drive to clean up the country 's water sources , all demonstrate a thrust of government policy very different from the regime which ended in 1979 . |
| 12 | The Construction Ministry estimates that $5.3 billion will be needed over the next five years just to clean up the country 's water supply . |
| 13 | We have been offered a pot-pourri of amendments — some favour London , some favour London and the south-east and others suggest carving up the country into all sorts of different regions . |
| 14 | The communiqué outlined five principles for drawing up and implementing the five- and 10-year plans : ( i ) " firmly follow the road of building socialism with Chinese characteristics " ; ( ii ) " firmly push forward reform and opening to the outside world " ; ( iii ) " firmly implement the principle of developing the national economy in a sustained , stable and co-ordinated manner " ; ( iv ) " firmly follow the principle of self-reliance , hard struggle and building up the country through thrift and diligence " ; and ( v ) " firmly implement the principle of promoting both material civilization and socialist culture and ethics " . |
| 15 | Opposition parties of both the left and the right accused the government of surrendering to the dictates of the World Bank and the IMF , but on March 9 the Lok Sabha ( lower house of parliament ) approved by a simple voice vote the government 's sweeping economic reforms , as detailed in the budget , which aimed at opening up the country 's protected economy . |
| 16 | Moving up the country to Bristol , the Lady Byron Park development in Exmouth has been given an all-American flavour with the apartments and homes named after US cities . |
| 17 | The Polish government has proposed transforming 10 per cent of its debts to western governments ( which total around US$32 billion ) into a domestic fund aimed at cleaning up the country 's environment . |
| 18 | THREE nuns from Darlington Carmel Convent follow in the footsteps of their predecessors this month when they travel to South Africa to set up the country 's first multi-racial convent . |
| 19 | Furthermore , a greater emphasis on relations with Moscow does not imply giving up the country 's own democratic future . |
| 20 | There was that chap that was sacked up the country was n't he ? |