Example sentences of "[vb past] up the [noun] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His drive towards restructuring higher education along egalitarian lines opened up the colleges to those from less privileged ‘ proletarian ’ backgrounds and those who showed the correct political disposition . |
| 2 | Along with otter , beaver and muskrat , it was relentlessly pursued by trappers , who opened up the continent to all the other stages of civilisation . |
| 3 | It also opened up the economy to foreign imports in order to increase competition and break up entrenched monopolies [ see pp. 37528 ; 38002 ] . |
| 4 | Jane found it cold , but her visitors found it freezing , so she turned up the thermostat to seventy . |
| 5 | By the late 1660s it is almost certain that , as Thomas Shadwell [ q.v. ] suggests in The Medal of John Bayes ( 1682 ) , he began employing the young Dryden to write prefaces , commencing a relationship that developed through the 1660s and 1670s when Herringman bought up the copyrights to most of Dryden 's work . |