Example sentences of "the [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 | In this case , however , it may be that present sea level coincides with an older sea level to so close a degree that the erosion platform merely represents the trimming up of an earlier one . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Westmore James sat quietly in the dock during the summing up on the last but one day of his trial at Oxford Crown Court . |
| 12 | They included the delivering up of the two named individuals for trial , recognition of responsibility for acts , willingness to pay compensation , the disclosure of information relating to the IRA and renunciation of terrorism . |