Example sentences of "[verb] up [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wimbledon followed suit a little later by opening up competition to professional tennis players . |
| 2 | He was one of the pioneers in opening up archaeology to everyone , both through his books and through radio and television appearances . |
| 3 | Fish build up resistance to nitrates as nitrates build-up in your tank . |
| 4 | Dr Hamish Inglis says : ‘ Once you have had a cold you build up immunity to that particular virus . |
| 5 | There are three polarisation states for deuterium nuclei , so only a third of the atoms in unpolarised deuterium will line up perpendicular to the magnetic fields . |
| 6 | Although official prices rose only 2 per cent , unsatisfied consumer demand ( estimated at a value of 165,000 million roubles ) drove up inflation to an annualized rate of 7.5 per cent . |
| 7 | Longer-term economic reforms to boost foreign investment included the loosening of environmental and Aboriginal heritage controls in planning procedures for mining projects , the completion of deregulation of the aviation market , and further relaxation of rules to open up banking to foreign competition . |
| 8 | In August 1988 the CME and Reuters agreed to open up Globex to other exchanges , MATIF , etc . |
| 9 | In contrast to this move to open up broadcasting to the free market , there is the desire to monitor and control output . |
| 10 | Hugh Geach , head of programme support services at Television South , explains : ‘ Everything the Government has done has been designed to open up television to market forces , to encourage new channels and competition for advertising . |
| 11 | The thrust of the Government initiatives in education is to open up access to all of those in employment , and preparing for employment , to gain qualifications . |
| 12 | His vision broke frontiers and opened up travel to ordinary people . |
| 13 | Tinka presented a course of work for backpain control , which not only got us ‘ tightening our tummies ’ and protecting our backs , but opened up Medau to a new and very large community of back-pain sufferers . |
| 14 | first world war , sort of , really , opened up education to women and , and really more than anything . |
| 15 | Open up plea to sex clinics |
| 16 | ( Perhaps there are analogies here with occupations which open up membership to women and subsequently decline in status and pay . ) |
| 17 | Somewhere about this time the squadron we had at Bourn was shifted up north to another Group . |
| 18 | Dressing often becomes a battle at this time , as you try to hurry the process by helping where help is n't wanted and she becomes more and more frustrated when her leg goes in the wrong hole or the jumper ends up back to front . |
| 19 | When news of Stony Stratford reached London , the Woodvilles had tried to whip up resistance to Gloucester . |
| 20 | When news of Stony Stratford reached London , the Woodvilles had tried to whip up resistance to Gloucester . |
| 21 | Their attempt to whip up opposition to him when news of Stony Stratford reached London had proved abortive and since then they had apparently been a spent force . |
| 22 | Their attempt to whip up opposition to him when news of Stony Stratford reached London had proved abortive and since then they had apparently been a spent force . |
| 23 | I 've promised to go up country to a bull ranch a friend of mine called Barbosa runs . |
| 24 | Certain types of bacteria , by genetic mutation , can build up resistance to disinfectants that act in the latter way to the extent that they can become totally immune to normal concentrations even utilising the disinfectant as a food source . |
| 25 | Many drivers were thinking twice about carrying out risky manoeuvres such as doing 90 miles an hour down the motorway even though such speeds benefited society in speeding up access to distant parts . |
| 26 | ‘ Brother shall deliver up brother to death ’ could be said to be true of Jerome , for if he had not killed he had indeed delivered Aldhelm to his death . |
| 27 | This is n't a man I 've got pitching up hay to me , it 's a flipping machine ! ’ |
| 28 | WFP makes the statement that the RMI will be ‘ extended and accelerated ’ with the aim of building up coverage to those units by the end of 1991/92 , ie March 1992 . |
| 29 | The reform of the national insurance system advocated here will also lead to all workers building up entitlement to national insurance benefits . |
| 30 | The most common of these is the high incidence of arthritic and rheumatic problems ; other specific examples include blindness and neurological problems associated with long-term diabetes ; chronic pain resulting from building up immunity to certain drugs , such as morphine ( various groups ) ; chronic respiratory problems caused by spinal deformity ( scoliosis ) ; and a variety of physiological problems coming under the heading of ‘ post-polio syndrome ’ . |