Example sentences of "[prep] the run-up to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or would be busy sorting things out at school with the run-up to half-term . |
| 2 | So the bet is that the prime minister now has two years — with luck , much calmer than the past one — to start putting a programme into law , followed by another year to sell it to the people in the run-up to re-election . |
| 3 | In the run-up to Budget day , newspapers are invariably full of so-called informed comment from well-placed sources . |
| 4 | The second was a report on restructuring the business in the run-up to privatisation . |
| 5 | However , they do not expect any radical revision to emerge in the run-up to legislation . |
| 6 | Trading Standards officers from St Helens Borough Council have welcomed the responsible attitude adopted by local businesses in the run-up to bonfire night . |
| 7 | MIDDLESBROUGH Mayor Eddie Bolland is doing the can-can in the run-up to Environment City day . |
| 8 | For the first time since they began the surveys , Dun and Bradstreet report a negative outlook for the profits of retailers , which indicates a gloomy outlook for consumer spending in the run-up to Christmas . |
| 9 | Sales are usually much bigger in the run-up to Christmas than in the rest of the year , and low sales would indicate that consumer 's confidence is broken and would also harm business confidence . |
| 10 | BARCLAYS , the biggest plastic card issuer , is gearing up for a blitz on card fraud in the run-up to Christmas . |
| 11 | COURTROOM drama A Few Good Men starring Tom Cruise and Demi Moore , above , took £7 million in three days to beat off opposition from Mel Gibson , Steve Martin and Robin Williams to be No 1 in America 's movie top 10 in the run-up to Christmas . |
| 12 | Anti-terrorist squad officers have been on maximum alert for several months and have been expecting ‘ a spectacular ’ IRA bomb in the run-up to Christmas . |
| 13 | In the run-up to Christmas , their games are selling faster than ever . |
| 14 | Despite medical advice about sensible drinking , many people still over-indulge , particularly in the run-up to Christmas and the New Year . |
| 15 | HEALTH and safety campaigners yesterday launched a major drive to fight stress in the run-up to Christmas by urging people to smile . |
| 16 | ‘ I saw both of them at club functions in the run-up to Christmas , and there was no hint of this . ’ |
| 17 | Consequently , many retailers in the run-up to Christmas were looking at poor weekly sales figures when compared with the same week in 1991 . |
| 18 | Erasure and Cher are just two among the onslaught of Greatest Hits which has begun to assault us as marketing replaces music in the run-up to Christmas . |
| 19 | RETAILERS hope the interest rate cut may boost shoppers ' confidence and High Street spending in the run-up to Christmas . |
| 20 | ‘ After a slow start to the month trade really began to improve in the run-up to Christmas . |
| 21 | A similar campaign was launched in the run-up to Christmas . |
| 22 | The hon. Gentleman is right , too , to tell the House of the warning that the Chief Constable of the RUC gave at the end of last week about the potential level of terrorist violence in the run-up to Christmas . |
| 23 | They allowed cameras into their Hereford base for the first time , to drive home the message that the public must be on their guard in the run-up to Christmas . |
| 24 | The litmus test of this assertion is the fact that so many UK nationalized industries managed to improve their performance in the run-up to privatization , while they were still in public ownership . |
| 25 | They argue that notification of a new substance should take place at the moment it is developed , rather than in the run-up to marketing . |
| 26 | But even they feared the worst , for , in the run-up to polling day , they released an album called ‘ Paint The White House Black ’ which rued the possibility that the man ‘ who brought the boys back home from Vietnam ’ would remain unappreciated by America . |
| 27 | In a speech to United Nations workers in Cambodia on May 19th , the final day of the election campaign , their chief , Yasushi Akashi , said the Khmers Rouges had increased their military strength in the country by 50% in the run-up to polling . |
| 28 | In the run-up to recognition , the commander of the Second Military District , General Milutin Kukanjao , hinted strongly that he wished to opt for the second option . |
| 29 | The warm weather which helped Etam in the summer has proved to be a disadvantage in the run-up to autumn trading and the chairman , Alan Howard , says the group has been trading slightly below budgeted levels . |
| 30 | In the run-up to implementation there was naturally some concern , as it was obvious from the outset that changes would be required to accounting procedures and practices , personnel matters , and local control and management of resources . |