Example sentences of "[verb] up the [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sales conference , held just before the all-important Christmas run-up began , was meant to psych up the sales force for the new line . |
| 2 | The scheme was set up to encourage a broader section of the public to buy works of art by living artists , thus opening up the art market while at the same time helping artists to earn an income . |
| 3 | Opening up the printing trade to women could be seen either as the unscrupulous recruitment of low-paid labour or as the expansion of opportunities for educated working-class girls . |
| 4 | Thornton spelled out how the new technology was rapidly opening up the newspaper scene , and offering enormous cost-cutting possibilities . |
| 5 | The SDP had been formed in 1981 with the intention of opening up the centre ground of British party politics [ see pp. 30911-12 ] , but after the Social and Liberal Democratic Party ( SLDP — now termed Liberal Democrats ) was formed in March 1988 combining most members of the former Liberal Party and of the SDP [ see p. 36501 ] , David Owen led the rump as a " continuing " SDP . |
| 6 | While in social terms this objective may be desirable , opening up the investment aids to reach an even wider range of farms could seriously exacerbate the agriculture/nature conservation conflict in the LFAs as more pastures and hay meadows are converted to grass leys , roughland improved agriculturally and wetlands drained although the reduction in drainage grants and the abolition of grants for land cultivation in December 1984 makes such an extension to smaller farms rather academic . |
| 7 | Bruce is particularly proud of ICI 's role in opening up the spirits market . |
| 8 | He explained that in 1886 he was making enquiries about the possibilities of opening up the canal routes to the south and was put in touch with a syndicate in London which was proposing to improve and develop these navigations . |
| 9 | These can be disappointing because the camcorder 's auto-exposure system , in opening up the lens aperture to maximise the average brightness of the shot , will probably record the coloured lights as colourless points of light . |
| 10 | She opened the heavy oak doors and the dogs swept past her bounding across the drive to their master who was opening up the car boot to remove his luggage . |
| 11 | Public accountability and transparency might be assisted by opening up the negotiation process between Central and Local government to participation by disinterested , knowledgeable parties and to non-expert advisors who could seek to ensure transparency , which is manifestly lacking in current procedures , particularly for the assessment of Grant Related Expenditure . |
| 12 | Opening Up The East Josephine Lanyon reports on the second year of East & South which has attracted an extraordinary number of women artists |
| 13 | Lord Silsoe , QC , opening up the CEGB campaign and taking two and a half days to do it ( there 's nothing like Latin for spinning words out ) , said that the board 's case had three main points . |
| 14 | Flowers , a surprise call-up a month ago when the squads for the World Cup double in Poland and Norway were announced , so much looked the part as Chris Woods 's stand-in that he may have leapfrogged up the goalkeeping queue . |
| 15 | Now I 'd also in this time rung up the er forwarding address in Manchester , rung up the telephone number I 'd been given of the forwarding address . |
| 16 | The castellated Raven Hotel ( a healthy clamber up the cliff path ) provided refreshment at reasonable prices . |
| 17 | It was apparent to me that a great deal more useful information could be derived from the FDR if the single parameter of pitch attitude could be added to the requirements , and I pressed this view very hard with the authorities when they drew up the UK regulations on the subject in 1964 . |
| 18 | That is an easier position to implement than the one taken by the countries which drew up the Basle convention on transboundary movements of hazardous waste , agreed in 1989 and in force since May last year . |
| 19 | Bernadette Friend talks to Pearl Brown , the nurse member of the team which drew up the Tomlinson report |
| 20 | As Paul-Henri Spaak was later to remind the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe in 1964 , ‘ Those who drew up the Rome Treaty … did not think of it as essentially economic ; they thought of it as a stage on the way to political union ’ . |
| 21 | If Campese misses the Wales Test at Cardiff Arms Park on November 22 , he may find consolation in the ad men who drew up the match posters being left with more egg on their faces than those who dreamed up George Bush 's ‘ four more years ’ slogan . |
| 22 | Is the Minister seriously saying that when he drew up the disposal scheme and the scheme for professional advice he had no consultation with the Secretary of State for Transport ? |
| 23 | On March 11 , opposition groups led by George Serban drew up the Timisoara Declaration , a document calling for the banning of ex-communists from public office , a purge of the bureaucracy and democratic reforms . |
| 24 | Also , as it so happens , in August 1941 Winston Churchill had a meeting with President Roosevelt on board a British battleship , off the coast of Newfoundland , and that was followed by a further meeting at Christmas in Washington , when they agreed to send aid to Russia in the form of armaments , etc. , also they drew up the Atlantic Charter under which it was proclaimed that all peoples , in all parts of the world , would have the right to choose their own form of government . |
| 25 | Compaq Computer Corp accompanied its new product blitz yesterday with the news that it will no longer publish suggested list prices for its machines in the US — but unlike IBM Corp with its mainframes , it 's not tearing up the price list . |
| 26 | Wonderful ! — like tearing up the ration books . |
| 27 | It was only a matter of time before somebody thought of seeding Antarctic atmosphere to plug up the ozone hole . |
| 28 | In Whitehall , three words came to sum up the appointments policy . |
| 29 | ‘ Do it right the first time , ’ is probably the best and shortest way to sum up the quality improvement process . |
| 30 | I always remember 'er walkin' up the turnin' wiv 'er 'ead 'eld up . |