Example sentences of "[to-vb] up [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In August 1988 the CME and Reuters agreed to open up Globex to other exchanges , MATIF , etc . |
| 3 | In contrast to this move to open up broadcasting to the free market , there is the desire to monitor and control output . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | When news of Stony Stratford reached London , the Woodvilles had tried to whip up resistance to Gloucester . |
| 7 | When news of Stony Stratford reached London , the Woodvilles had tried to whip up resistance to Gloucester . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I 've promised to go up country to a bull ranch a friend of mine called Barbosa runs . |
| 11 | A working party is to be formed to draw up opposition to the plan , for presentation to the Welsh Office . |
| 12 | Successful applicants will be able to build up entitlement to normal benefits such as concessionary mortgages . |
| 13 | David Nicholas , Deal 's marketing director , says the company will be producing gears by the end of the year and plans to build up production to ½ million units a year within two years . |
| 14 | ‘ It caused some anxious moments as we worked out how to keep up supply to this project approximately 1,200 kilometres from our manufacturing centre in Rabaul , ’ said PNG general manager . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , because we have to make up time to Denver , and we ca n't do that with stuff like that in the car . |
| 16 | The sensor measures alkalinity and when the level falls below a pre-set value it activates a pump that delivers product from a bulk container to the tank in sufficient quantity to make up solution to the desired strength . |
| 17 | What many fear is that , despite negotiated settlements ’ being fashionable in other parts of the world , the US will be more than happy to leave El Salvador to Arena , freeing it to step up aid to the Nicaraguan contras and removing , once and for all , any chance of success for the peace plan being negotiated by the five Central American presidents , which has never been supported by the US . |