Example sentences of "[art] [v-ing] up [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In addition , the EC Commission lays emphasis on a number of other changes which should contribute to the speeding up of the legislative process .
2 Doubtless the timing of the revolt can be partly understood in terms of the flaring up of the Young King 's dissatisfaction at Limoges .
3 The work involves the legal processes of obtaining probate of wills and the winding up of a deceased person 's affairs so that the wishes expressed in those wills may be carried out .
4 The winding up of the New Town Development Corporations began in the mid-1980s , and in December 1986 the Minister for Housing said that all of the New Town Development Corporations would have gone by 1992 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 The hostility of the army to the republic increased with the Catalan autonomy statute which represented to them the breaking up of the Spanish nation and a threat to national pride .
8 The main differences between the 1978 and the 1983 lists were definitional ( the splitting up of the middle-income group ) and political ( South Africa expelled from the industrial group and relegated to the upper-middle-income group and replaced , incidentally , by Spain ; Taiwan expelled altogether from the list and the People 's Republic of China integrated into the low-income group at number 21 ) .
9 Today with the shaking up of the post-war world order the terms migrants , refugees , borders , national identity , have become part of the cultural agenda in Europe and North America .
10 Not a taking up of the old ways , but she had anticipated that for at least part of the evening they would move from professional matters to personal .
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