Example sentences of "[verb] up [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is really an essential part of the trial and sometimes may even result in two different driving systems being offered ; the problem may equally be solved by gradually opening up fuller access to the unit , in that way reconciling the two different kinds of need within a single driving system . |
| 2 | Using Britain as an example , Napoleon III and the economists who advised him believed that the introduction of free trade would help to strengthen the French economy , since only by opening up French industry to greater competition would it be galvanized into accepting new methods of production . |
| 3 | It was 20 June when they went back , all Goblander 's windows open , the weather being perfect the way you expected it to be that summer , as if it were southern Europe where you woke up each morning to sunshine and unclouded skies . |
| 4 | Woke up this morning to Familiar Pain |
| 5 | TOM KITE , winner of the Bob Hope Classic at La Quinta , California , with a record-breaking 35-under-par total of 325 for the five-round tournament , has moved up one place to ninth in the latest Sony world rankings . |
| 6 | The aim is to open up higher education to under-represented groups through provision which offers enhanced support plus guaranteed further training at the end of one year . |
| 7 | I am prepared to be convinced that that is not the case and that the Government mean well and intend to try to open up educational opportunity to everyone , no matter their class background . |
| 8 | Doe 's forces put up stiffer resistance to the rebel groupings than was expected , and were able to hold the area of Monrovia around the heavily fortified executive mansion . |
| 9 | Have the local residents put up much objection to these new extension plans ? |
| 10 | Neither MacLeod nor Michael Weir was available four days earlier when Hibs put up spirited resistance to Aberdeen and came within minutes of getting at least one point . |
| 11 | Right so if someone holds up this piece and you hold up this piece to your mum and you say what sort of fraction is this ? |
| 12 | I 'm gon na suggest to you that er if w if we 're going to think about channels of communication then we could arguably divide up inter-personal communication to three broad sets of channels so it will will be familiar to some students already I think , er but not certainly not to many second years . |
| 13 | In truth there are liquid acrylics of varying viscosity and therefore suitable for different uses , but the one thing which they all have in common is that they open up acrylic work to the whole field of design and illustration and offer other useful techniques for the fine artist . |
| 14 | But it does suggest that racism is too deeply embedded in the whole experience of growing up working class to be the sole responsibility of skins . |
| 15 | Sitting on the tube a largish , overweight man sits under a sign reading ‘ Give up this seat to someone less able to stand than yourself . ’ |
| 16 | Time and again it appeared that people had given up secure employment to farm full-time . |
| 17 | Jump the gap and make your way down the steps and platforms to another ladder , pick up another crate to your left and climb down the ladder , kill the workman and run right ( out of the building ) , get on the lift and jump into the little room ( this contains a couple of records ) , get the crate and climb up the ladder to kill the last workman , get on the lift to your left and go to the top , jump onto the platform , and the next , and the next , until you reach the furthest one where there 's an extra life . |
| 18 | The analysis of the last section has shown that synonyms will slow up direct access to records on average . |
| 19 | The University of Cape Town Ballet had been there before , in 1941 and 1942 , building up local support to the extent that on their third visit , in September 1943 , all six performances in the Great Hall at Milner Park ( the theatre belonging to Witwatersrand University ) were sold out before the opening night . |
| 20 | Although by early 1945 Japan 's power was weakening considerably , her forces continued to put up still resistance to the American advances in the Pacific . |
| 21 | Indeed as friend , colleague or relation , the listener has a choice of responses which were not available to her had the task merely instructed her to listen : she could , for instance , adopt a cool intellectual probing , helping the talker to weigh up the pros and cons , or she could set up emotional resistance to the idea . |
| 22 | If either the Darwinians on the one hand , or the religious leaders of that time on the other , did make any effort to reconcile the theories of evolution with the doctrines of religion , they made no progress and the two factions became hopelessly opposed , and the religious leaders set up intense opposition to the teachings on evolution . |
| 23 | He strengthened American forces in the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf ; stepped up military aid to Pakistan ; imposed an embargo on wheat exports to the Soviet Union ; and called for a boycott of the Moscow Olympic Games of 1980 . |
| 24 | Solidarity ministers , who this time last year were huddled in places like Warsaw 's scruffy Czytelnik café plotting nothing more ambitious than the legalisation of their union , now wake up each morning to the daunting task of building a new democratic Poland on the rubble of the old communist one . |
| 25 | In general , ten welcomed the proposal , including from Argentina ( ‘ I think this type of study is necessary ’ ) , of the Christian Conference of Asia ( ‘ I join others who have welcomed the idea of linking up theological thinking to development issues . ’ ) |
| 26 | With Marion 's baby due next month and my being absent on leave , I would n't put it past the ‘ high heid yins ’ to cook up some deal to my disadvantage . ’ |
| 27 | Use the special ready-mixed adhesive recommended and hang by butting up one tile to the next . |
| 28 | Then , and only then , begin the side-slip and use up sufficient height to be sure that full airbrake will be more than adequate to get down for a spot landing . |
| 29 | Peter Marshall moves up one place to No 6 and Chris Walker climbs three places to No 7 . |
| 30 | Sutton was later going to have to cope with marrying up this formula to the new direct-entry computer system , which was being sorted out by systems editor Eugenie Verney , a sub-editor made redundant from the Daily Express in Manchester , who had previously worked on the Guardian . |