Example sentences of "[v-ing] up [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has involved thinning trees , opening up glades around mature Scots pines and planting juniper and blackberries . |
| 2 | It can be so — certain women have a perpetual ‘ devouring ’ quality — but it is a natural process , echoed in the menstrual cycle , and in the moon 's waxing and waning , and it can be used to positive effect , regulating the ebb and flow of relationships and opening up pathways of communication . |
| 3 | ‘ We expect to be the McDonald 's of videotex , opening up franchises around the country , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 4 | Wimbledon followed suit a little later by opening up competition to professional tennis players . |
| 5 | He was one of the pioneers in opening up archaeology to everyone , both through his books and through radio and television appearances . |
| 6 | Even the railway system constructed under British rule can now be seen to have had an ambiguous role in relation to the Indian economy , for its benefits have to be set against its encouragement of export-based production and its role in opening up India to the inflow of manufactures , mainly from Britain ( Bagchi , 1982 , pp. 85-.6 ) . |
| 7 | Opening up hearings to the public would require a byelaw change , but the PCD has already implemented the move to more informative reporting . |
| 8 | In the present educational climate in the UK this involves an important political stand , opening up problems of language awareness , discourse , text , and tradition . |
| 9 | People do n't realise that we 're opening up ears to this type of music . |
| 10 | Sir Leon Brittan , the EC Commissioner responsible for competition policy , had said on Aug. 30 that the Commission would consider opening up membership of the unified financial services market to members of the European Free Trade Association ( EFTA ) ; he stressed , however , the need for reciprocal liberalization in those countries ( Switzerland and most of Scandinavia imposing tight limits on the extent of foreign shareholdings in their domestic companies ) . |
| 11 | Opening up possibilities for interpreting experience |
| 12 | Still being distributed throughout the UK and abroad , Networking International has been a real source of information as well as opening up opportunities for women artists . |
| 13 | In 1992 the European Community will become a single market , opening up opportunities to manufacturing companies throughout Europe . |
| 14 | In other words she herself is opening up avenues for all sorts of intuitive meanings . |
| 15 | It is about opening up ideas about the range of choices which could and should be available to them . |
| 16 | Opening up barrels with pump-action |
| 17 | Radmilovic claimed that in opening up Yugoslavia to foreign imports , by lowering tariffs in order to force domestic manufacturers to lower prices and become more competitive , the government had encouraged dumping , and was ruining domestic producers . |
| 18 | Based on the Marvel comic of the same name and filmed back in 1988 , it 's the usual uncomplicated but enjoyable mix of demolition derby and fuck you one-liners , which features Dolph as a leather-clad psycho-avenger tearing up nightclubs with huge guns , using his karate skills on mob bosses and riding round city sewers on his Harley . |
| 19 | The earth seemed to shudder underneath her ; she clutched at it , tearing up handfuls of dusty grass and retching . |
| 20 | She was mistaken only in not tearing up shots of other religious leaders also . |
| 21 | In the silence we hear a cow tearing up grass by the roots and chewing . |
| 22 | I 'd been banging up dikes for a couple of years when smack came on the scene and I just sort of carried on as I had been doing , y'know , with the smack instead of the dike . |
| 23 | Keeping up morale in the Falklands |
| 24 | Even the government realized the importance of cosmetics in keeping up morale amongst women workers . |
| 25 | Keeping up contacts like going to the post office to collect their pension , going to the library , attending community centres and things of that sort . ’ |
| 26 | A travel iron is useful for keeping up appearances on holiday . |
| 27 | Keeping up appearances at work is paying off — a recent survey has revealed that women now account for 26% of managerial posts — a figure that 's trebled since the late 1970's . |
| 28 | All my efforts were concentrated on keeping up appearances during those two hours of the day when I was with them . |
| 29 | This was a time when Haslam learned the subtle art of keeping up appearances despite the fact that the world seemed to be collapsing all around him . |
| 30 | They saw the union as being primarily concerned with keeping up levels of men 's pay and hence as the sphere and responsibility of men . |