Example sentences of "[verb] up the [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | However he ruled out opening up the political system to a number of parties , insisting that national unity must be achieved first . |
| 2 | I began by taking the cable-car and the chairlift beyond it , then wandered up the lower glacier to the hut . |
| 3 | But after 74 miles , they were all together as they charged up the last climb to the finishing line . |
| 4 | Saturdays made no difference to us , for there was no school then , but on Wednesdays some of us had to stand up the whole way to Parma . |
| 5 | ‘ What on earth do you mean ? ’ asked her mother aggressively , picking up the nearest dress to hand . |
| 6 | However , as the busloads of pilgrims trudged up the muddy paths to the whispered prayers ( ’ Our Lady of Ballinspittle sway for us ’ ) of the local inn keepers , the Bishop of Cork gave a lukewarm endorsement to the extent that it WIS no bad thing to see people praying . |
| 7 | This had built up the present balance to what it now was . |
| 8 | From these results , it would appear that the younger children were not able to pick up the linguistic cues to the deductive/empirical distinction contained in the experimenter 's questions . |
| 9 | Increasingly powerful transmitters , satellite relays , and cable systems have begun to open up the British electorate to a wider variety of broadcast news sources , while business mergers have effectively consolidated control of the press into a very few hands ( Newton , 1988a , p. 314 ; Negrine , 1989 , ch. 4 ) . |
| 10 | The Rome Treaty aims to open up the Common Market to competition in respect of services as well as goods . |
| 11 | For my part , I sometimes think of the film Psycho as I walk up the bleaker staircases to people 's homes in Hackney . |
| 12 | We instantly felt the week was getting off to a good start , a feeling reinforced by waking up the following morning to new , slightly heavy snow . |
| 13 | We climbed up the easy slope to the top of the island , and found we were overlooking a sort of wooded cliff on the other side . |
| 14 | This Fifties comedy was set in a ‘ flea pit ’ cinema called the Bijou where staff turned up the central heating to boiling point in a desert picture to boost ice cream sales . |
| 15 | Of course it was just possible that something had delayed them ; they might even now be hurrying up the steep incline to the station . |
| 16 | This space thus contains all the elements of the assembly and can be reflected up the hierarchical structure to a level at which assemblies are being considered . |
| 17 | This arises where the tenant has closed the premises prior to the end of the term and has used up the full entitlement to rating relief . |
| 18 | ‘ I believe we could build up the parliamentary group to more than 100 members . ’ |
| 19 | I walked slowly back up the shabby road to this now miserable room , thinking all the while of what I ought to do or what I could do if I was ever going to outmanoeuvre these cunning poisoners . |
| 20 | Too often we are faced with clamouring up the slippery slopes to the law more than sliding down them . |
| 21 | With such thoughts in my head and lithe grace in my movements , I loped up the grassy knoll to the court . |
| 22 | When cheques are cashed a transfer is automatically made from the deposit account to meet the payment and make up the current account to £20 . |
| 23 | After installing the necessary electrical circuit , connect up the heat-resistant flex to the terminals on the heater |
| 24 | The second consideration is that batching implies holding up the first enquiries to be received . |
| 25 | A special constitutional commission was set up , presided over by Ramiz Alia , to draw up the necessary amendments to be placed before the next session of parliament . |
| 26 | Chopra felt frightened as they walked up the narrow stairway to the battlements . |
| 27 | He left the Incident Room and walked up the steep alley to Lady Street , into the usual morning clutter of delivery vans and pedestrians . |
| 28 | In my utter loneliness I had only one resource : several times I took the ferry to North Shields , and walked up the steep bank to a certain public lavatory beside a roaring pub . |
| 29 | The building , which faces west , lies below a turn in the Sacred Way which zigzags up the steep site to the temple , on a little terrace just above the south wall of the sanctuary . |
| 30 | Jasper Sharpe powered up the direct start to Moving Staircase at High Rocks to give a fun ( and 6b ) boulder problem . |