Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] up the [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | By doing business , inviting foreign experts to work and teach inside China and opening up the country to the world , progress seemed certain . |
| 2 | To return to the point made by the hon. Member for Islington , South and Finsbury ( Mr. Smith ) , this is all about transparency and opening up the process to much greater public scrutiny , so that the public can see what is going on , the taxpayer can see what his or her money is being spent on and the customer can see the standard of service being contracted to be provided . |
| 3 | It was possible to get on to the roof by the window and climb up the slope to the wall and the projecting archway . |
| 4 | The Marshal had made a point of checking on that because although the Florentines spent a small fortune on electronic locks , bars , security doors and burglar alarms they quite open pressed the switches and opened up the lot to anybody with the wit to ring the bell and call ‘ Telegramtne ! ’ |
| 5 | Instead , Merleau-Ponty proposed an open dialectic which would concede Marxism 's equivocalness , and give up the claim to the dialectical logic of History as a process of objective truth . |
| 6 | This had better be good , I thought grimly as I crossed the road and walked up the cul-de-sac to the Parsonage . |
| 7 | This creates charitable understanding and opens up the way to conversion through ‘ a constant appeal to the head and the heart . ’ |
| 8 | If you persisted in trying to talk to her , she would heave herself out of her chair and turn up the volume to a decibel level that made your ears ache . |
| 9 | On April 22 , 1991 , Ryzkhov 's successor as Prime Minister , Pavlov , presented to the USSR Supreme Soviet an emergency anti-crisis programme designed to stabilize the economy by the end of the year and to speed up the transition to a market economy . |
| 10 | There are five positional patterns that can be played laterally up and down the fretboard and which relate to any major scale ( and its relative minor scale ) : you 'll start on the lowest diatonic note in each key and move up the fretboard to the highest comfortable form ( more on this later ) . |
| 11 | She indicated Chris with a quick nod of the head , and ran up the garden to the house . |
| 12 | He was halfway through his coffee when he swung his legs off the couch and picked up the phone to the embassy . |