Example sentences of "[verb] up national [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Coleraine Times won the Newspaper Society award for the best free newspaper in Northern Ireland with the photographer and sports editor on that paper picking up national awards . |
| 2 | The European Commission last year proposed that all EC railways should separate track operation from running services , in the hope that it would then be easier to open up national railways to outside competition . |
| 3 | Rabuka warned that the army would step in , but at an economic summit meeting on June 29-30 , the government agreed to set up national wage guidelines . |
| 4 | The North-east coalfield developed early because of access to sea routes to the capital ; the other landlocked coalfields catered only for regional markets before canals and navigable rivers enabled them to lower their prices and until the railways opened up national markets . |
| 5 | If the countries of the EC all give up national power and pass it to the European level , are they all giving up the same thing ? |
| 6 | To date , it has been co-ordinated through a small Rome-based unit which assists tropical countries in drawing up national plans preventing forest loss . |
| 7 | In the short term , the Commission will concentrate its efforts largely on biomass , biofuels , energy-from-waste , wind power and small hydro power , with funds available for such purposes as drawing up national inventories on the use of renewables , creating uniformity of standards and implementing a statistical recording system . |
| 8 | A Royal Commission was appointed in April 1990 to draw up national charter to regulate political life [ see pp. 37392-93 ] . |
| 9 | The European Community competition commissioner Karel Van Miert is endorsing proposals — bitterly contested in the more state corporatist member countries — for breaking up national telephone monopolies by 1998 to free markets for calls both within and between member states ; the idea of an interim deregulation that would affect only transborder traffic has now been abandoned ; the UK is the only Community member open to phone call competition ; Denmark will follow suit next year and the Netherlands is expected to move as well ; Van Miert wants the Community to set liberalisation priorities and a timetable by year end , including proposals for regulatory changes by the end of 1994 , with market-opening to start in 1995 . |
| 10 | It was Rosa Luxemburg , with the strong support of the German leadership , who defended the position of the German Social Democrats in the name of internationalism , urging the Polish worker in Prussia ‘ to give up national utopias and to accept that his national interests are best taken care of by Social Democracy , and not by taking up a separate position as a Pole in the wake of nationalist parties ’ . |
| 11 | Then , Labour was accused of holding the tax timebomb , with secret plans to raise taxes and put up national insurance contributions . |
| 12 | This is the economic force which pushes up national income . |
| 13 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what meetings he has had with hon. Members on each of the proposals for setting up national health service trusts . |
| 14 | There have been no formal meetings with hon. Members on proposals for setting up national health service trusts . |
| 15 | Several EC countries have in the meantime set up national labelling schemes . |